This course retrospective and interactive lecture depicts my approach to promoting creative student projects. 

Your mission in this course will be to recognize and practice effective English writing for academic and personal purposes.

Consider this trailer for the film, The Great Passage (2013), which makes us appreciate the great effort it takes to establish a new dictionary.

Q: What new words did you encounter from the subtitles of this trailer? How would you describe the protagonist of the film?

Consider this genre analysis of the music of Icelandic-Chinese breakout star from TikTok, Laufey, by Adam Neely.

Q: This analysis provides a very specific definition of jazz as a genre. Do you agree with this definition? Why or why not?

Consider this analysis of Akira Kurosawa's films through the category of cuts, flow, and movement.

Q: How does the organization of this analysis enhance the persuasiveness of its argument?

"Books with words have become totally useless", says emoji activist Henry Kazinski.

Q: How does Henry suggest that we can overcome the "tyranny of meaning"? Can you suggest an emoji story for the great works of the past?

(a) |🤞👿 | (b) ◼️3️⃣🌲🍓 | (c) 🚑🦮📙 | (d) 🕵️‍♂️👧🏻🤵‍♀️👨‍👩‍👦🥜 | (e) 🕵️👦 |
(f) 🤖🇺🇸🏹🤢🦹‍♀️ (g) |🇳🇴🌳 | (h) 🍧 | (i) 👹⚔ | (j) 👉📛🤷‍♀️ | (k) 🫵⭐️ |
(l) 👒🏴‍☠⚓🤛🏼 | (m) ✨☁️📖 | (n) |🇳🇴🌳 | (o) 👨‍🎨 | (p) ❤️🐷 | (q) ☝🏻🧩 |