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Journals

• 100 points total (10% of total grade). 
• Due on assigned dates. 
•  Journals should be between 150-300 words.
• The purpose of journals is to develop the final research paper. 
• Journals should be posted on your personal roster page under the heading JOURNALS. 

• Journal One: post three texts to you are considering for your final paper. Include links to text summaries. 
• 10 points 
• Due 9/2 
• Journal Two: post an art work that you relates to the course theme (literary quest).  
•  Summarize the art work you have chosen.
• 10 points 
• Due 9/11 
• Journal Three: Choose one of the elements of visual rhetoric to analyze the art work you have chosen in a paragraph. 
• Do not summarize (you did that for the last journal)
•  10 points 
• Due 9/18 
• Journal Four: identify the topic you are considering for the final paper.  
• 10 points 
• Due 10/7 
• Journal Five: List of three scholarly secondary text on topic/text (post to roster page) 
• 20 points 
• Due 10/14 
• Journal Six: Working Thesis
• 20 points  
• Due 10/30 
• Journal Seven: Do two paragraphs of analysis on one of your texts.  
• 20 points  
• Due 11/6