This document provides information and reminders for students in an English 145 class. It discusses that movie reviews are due on November 18th and individual work will take place that day with no class meeting. It also lists upcoming assignments after Thanksgiving including a draft of a data analysis due on November 30th and reading an excerpt from a book to discuss in a blog. It provides information on reserving materials from the Media Lab for multigenre presentations and details for those presentations. It discusses the class' work on globalization, including defining the term, advantages and disadvantages, and how it affects lives.

1. ENGLISH 145
Discussion on Globalization
Working on Multigenre presentations

2. Reminders
Movie Reviews Due on Thursday, November 18th. Please send them
to lisyaseloni@gmail.com
Individual Work on November 18th (No class meeting)
Assignments After thanks giving break:
1. Draft of data analysis is DUE on November, 30th
2. Read: Covering : The Hidden Assault to Civil Rights. An
Uncovered Self (pages 3-27) presented by Kurt and Conrad
3. Blog: How does the author define the notion of Covering? Why
does he have to Cover? What type of writing genre is this piece?
What did you like most about this chapter?

3. Media Lab
Where is Media Lab?
They are located at 379 Student Services Building
What are their office hours?
From 11 to 5 pm
What do they have for my multigenre presentation?
banner paper, display boards, ellison cutters. lamination machine, poster board, fabri
How will I pay?
Show your ID
Tell them that you are in Dr. Seloni’s ENGLISH 145 class.
Tell them to bill Dr. Seloni’s account in the English Department

4. December 9th: Multigenre
Presentations
Food Options:
1. Pizza
2. COSI
3. Moe’s
Mini-Conference Flyer:
1. Find a Catchy title
2. Forming a Flyer committee

5. Agenda and Reminders
 Discussion on Globalization
 Blogging on Globalization
 Overall Comments on Data Analysis
 Individual Work on Data Analysis

6. What is globalization?
 Write your definition of globalization. What are the
advantages and disadvantages? How does it affect
your life?

7. “Students’ definition” and “The Hidden Face of
Globalization”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bhodyt4fmU&featur
e=related
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzxBkszN8k&featur
e=related

8. Free writing on Globalization
 What was your definition of globalization at the beginning of
the class and how did it change after the videos and our
class discussion today?
 What are your views on “Americanization of the world”
(p.73)? (Amazon Indians wearing Nike training shoes,
people of South Sahara purchasing Yankees baseball caps,
Palestinian youths proudly displaying their Chicago Bulls
sweatshirts)
 What is “McDonaldization” according to the author?
 Define Pessimistic hyperglobalizers and Optimistic
hyperglobalizers (p. 72-75)

9. Globalization
A group of American tourists arrived in Italy not long ago.
“Amazing!” one said to their tour guide, a friend of
mine: “You have pizza here too.”
A group of Japanese Boy Scouts landed in Chicago.
“Amazing!” they told their troop leader: “They have
McDonald’s here too!”

10.  Globalization is not a phenomenon. It is not just some
passing trend. Today it is an overarching international
system shaping the domestic politics and foreign
relations of virtually every country, and we need to
understand it as such.
--Thomas Friedman

11. Manfred Steger
 Does globalization create sameness or difference?
 What is the role of the Media?
 Globalization of Languages
 Does Globalization create sameness or difference?
 Pessimistic hyperglobalizers
 Optimistic hyperglobalizers
 Some disagree with both sides and claim that there is
“glocalization”
 A complex interaction of the global and local characterized
by cultural borrowing

12. The role of Media
 A small number of TNCs control almost all the
world’s communication industries.
 Yahoo, Google, AOL/Time Warner, Microsoft, Viacom,
GE, Disney, and News Corporation account for two-
thirds of world’s communication revenue.
 Profit-making, entertainment, and production of
news are intertwined.
 This doesn’t only cause cultural imperialism
(undisputed cultural hegemony of popular culture),
but also leads to depoliticization of social reality and
the weakening of civic bonds.

13. Overall Comments and
Tips on Data
Analysis/Results

14. Comments and Tips for your Data
Analysis and Results
 Give your readers a road-map: It is important to tell the readers at the
beginning how you organized your data and what you will discuss
specifically in this section.
 The way you organize your result/discussion section will determine
how you illustrate your data. For example,
 If you organized by themes (show examples…)
 If you organized by cases (show examples…)
 If you organized by data sources. If this is your organization, then you also
need to have either themes or cases within each data source (show
examples)
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15. General comments about your Data
Analysis/Results
 All direct quotations from interviews and survey should be block
indented if an only if the excerpt is 40 OR MORE WORDS;
 In the above case, there is no need for you to use quotation marks
since your Block Indent serves as quotation marks;
 If they are fewer than 40 words, include them in text using quotation
marks and also italicize them;
 Do not overuse direct quotations
 Make sure to include your interview questions and survey tool
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16. General Comments about your Data
Analysis/Results (continued…)
 When you use a direct excerpt from the survey or interviews, please
discuss what the excerpt means for you. In other words, you need to
include your interpretations. It is unacceptable to just list the excerpts
and not say anything about them;
 You need to “discuss” or “interpret” your results in your own words
and not just by the use of quotations.
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17. The Course Project Table of Contents
 A title page (your name, course name, professor name, date, a catchy title for your project)
 Abstract (a brief summary of the entire project- 100-120 words only)
 Introduction
 Literature Review
 Method of Inquiry
 Results and Discussion
 Conclusion (what you can conclude about your topic as a result of this study)
 Reflections (a hand-out will be given)
 Reference (use the word “reference” for APA style & use “Works Cited” for MLA style)

18. Assignments
 Movie Reviews DUE November 18th
 Read and Blog: “Uncovered Self” by Kenji Yoshino
 Data Analysis/Results DUE right after Thanksgiving (no
electronic copies please)