During our interview, Eric Brinkman, a computer engineering major, and member of the Spring 2003 course, chose to focus on a task called "Re-Source/Research."
Assigned during the seventh week of the Spring 2003 semester, the task required that students research the way a person, place, or thing had been re-presented in a wide range of sources and to create a context that allowed them to re-present their analyses of those sources for an audience of their choosing. Sources might include scholarly texts, government publications, cards, memos, children’s books, songs, bumper stickers, films, photographs, websites, ads, poems, short stories, television shows, and so on. In their analyses, students are asked to attend specifically to how their sources make similar kinds of arguments (i.e., do the same or similar kinds of work) using different genres, media, and systems of reception and distribution.
