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The Reality of Mediated Reality: What’s Real and What’s Make-Believe?

The Reality of Mediated Reality: What’s Real and What’s Make-Believe?. Success in First-Year Composition February 3, 2006 Ann Parker Southern Polytechnic State University. Reality? Are you Kidding Me?. *What do students really “SEE?” *How does the media skew what we perceive as real?

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The Reality of Mediated Reality: What’s Real and What’s Make-Believe?

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  1. The Reality of Mediated Reality:What’s Real and What’s Make-Believe? Success in First-Year Composition February 3, 2006 Ann Parker Southern Polytechnic State University

  2. Reality? Are you Kidding Me? • *What do students really “SEE?” • *How does the media skew what we perceive as real? • *Do students take mediated information as fact or fiction? • *Where does this fit into a freshman composition class?

  3. Connecting Seeing to Writing • I-Search Paper • Film: “The Truman Show” • Traditional Library Source • Two Internet sources • Field Research • Personal Interviews • Photographs

  4. Student Topics • How college is portrayed in the media (fun, girls, free time) vs. the realities of being a college student • Growing up as a gang member vs. media portrayals of gangs • Choosing a major (job reality vs. student perceptions) • Living gay vs. gays on television • Teen attitudes about sex vs. media’s portrayal of teen sex • Electronic reality vs. real life

  5. Resources • Lukkonen, Josh. “Relevancy in the Classroom: Bringing the Real World into School.” Classroom Notes Plus. Oct. 2003. 8 – 10. • Macrorie, Ken. The I-Search Paper. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook. 1988. • McQuade, Donald and Christine McQuade. Seeing and Writing 3. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2005.

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