Notes19 Sep 2012

19 Sep 2012
Notes
n a perfect world he could walk in and we would be discussing Jared Diamond and the Daedalus Project. He wants us to discuss Jared Diamond and the Daedalus Project. If we were talking about this meaningfully, the teacher might not give a quiz on something we clearly understand.

That's why he was glad to hear us talking about the Daedalus project as he walked in. That's a hint. Might have a quiz. Don't take out a sheet of paper, except for taking notes.

Quiz question 1--Moment of truth

How many of you like to read?

How many find it loathsome?

You'll find, even in a family with many siblings, some kids like to read and some kids don't.

Many people find something they like as a teen and are still reading the same thing when they are old.

Sometimes our minds are just wired for other sorts of things. There was a good neighbor who could not could not master reading. He was gentle, kind and also very smart. He could play the violin and he could draw but did not read well.

Reading is a rhetorical triangle, with the author at one side of the triangle and the subject at another, with a communion going back and forth between the vertices of the triangle. When you read a text you are always dreaming. When you are reading you are not only reading the inner text in this novel, but recreating a novel or experience of your own that is uniquely your own. Two people may read the same novel, but will not experience it in the same way, although there is an overlap between cultural experiences. Sometimes we are more kinesthetic through wiring, we connect through more active sorts of things, like framing a house.

All of us experience metaphors of life. We have a massive force multiplier, basically a time machine. We can traverse space and time through text and expand whatever we enjoy far beyond the limitations of our finite experience.Discussion on a children's book - It's a Book, by Lane Smith

Books are still more portable than electronics.
visual cues, sub-sectioning of a book

not normal readers

writers and designers of technical text

how does diamond integrate visual rhetoric

maps he puts in there

creating a picture

text creating images rather than images being image page 78 Discussion on the book Guns germs and steel

Visual rhetoric

The flow chart discussed at this point is not included in the Kindle version of the textbook.Images would probably increase the size of the e-book file.

conceptual diagrams integrate with the text

-----------------------grammar and style issues--quiz next class period ----------------------------

how many ways can you make a sentence in English?

invent our own grammar

sentence structure only one way.

Noun verb subject--I am Vern

I kick soccer balls. kick is the action--I is the pronoun, the one that takes the action

action--verb

------------------computer is shutting down at this point--I closed it and put it away and continued on paper for the remainder of class. ---------------------------------------------------

Visual rhetoric
Flow chart not included in the Kindle edition of Guns, Germs and Steel

Conceptual diagrams integrate with the text to make his argument.

How do you go from a string of text----

How does he integrate graphics and text?

Cross reference far away from original reference

Synaptic text and image together Within sight graphic becomes a schema to hang detail schema works linguistically text makes pictures in the mind

GPS map, list of instructions

Women's minds linguistic, men's are visual

Ultimate factors in

Latitude-different plants in various places microclimate changes-altitude changes climate shown in a very small areaThe 

12,000 continental traverse -land at a rough letter to know resolution to left

Alta met factor many suitable animal species

Can't still mystic eight large animal species has to beat amenable to domestication

Discussion on planters

The more suitable wild species the more likely you will get domestic species

How does he integrates diagrams with text

Captions create a conversation between image and text

Image that's grouped curiously

Discussion on bookbinding

If you look at the spine paper is punched
Imagine scratch paper is a big sheet of paper

Large sheet go to a a bindery and trend

Each sheet is folded into a signature

Folds the paper each time is double set three times folded makes 16

512 fold equals 22 to 10 power

Fold nine times it gets 512

Biggest signature  times six

Hard bound the  books made as signature uncoated stock
Cutter plate

Coated stock gives a much clearer image

fourth side they stitched into the book, chops the four sides

Perfect binding-perfect bound book

Polymer glue Bead-looks somewhat like stitching

Sown books plus a glue are better

Chapters 123

Discussion on grammar and style

Subjects verb and object
Simplest way
Acton equals transitive
S-V-O
I kick soccer balls
Anti-acton equals intransitive
S-V
I coughed
An equality = equation = equality = entrance intransitive linking
S-V -PN predicate noun
I am Vern.
I am eccentric-- subject complement
Pa = predicate adjectives = passive -avoid "Be" verbs Proposal -Gantt Chart

Soccer balls were kicked by me.

Use flip sentence is
Subject verb flip sentence is

SO-flip
Passive transitive

Soccer balls were kicked by me

Government documents written in passive voice

Technical documents-what gets the job done

But the subject first

Passive means to emphasize that the object and deemphasize the subject

I broke this resistor

This resistor was broken by us

Which sentences can be passive? 

flipping-have to have objects and subjects

Only transitive scanned the passive new paragraph proposals-we all have to do one

Teams only one
Daedalus  -each must do their own