Selected Works

Include at least 5 Low-Stakes and Mid-Stakes Artifacts with accompanying reflections to assess your progress toward the Student Learning Outcomes in STACC. (remember, this is a MULTIMODAL essay—so you can type words, but also you can display in video, audio, image, text-document etc
See the example below:

PCC Course Learning Outcome #1
Write coherent, developed, and clearly constructed thesis-driven in-class and out-of-class essays using a variety of rhetorical approaches.

In the following assignment, I was able to fulfill the first CLO by writing a clear, focused, and detailed observation of an artist and his engagment with literacy.

Discourse Community Observation Report

I belong to the community of Verona in Italy; it's a small village but it seems to gain prestige by the day. Why, just yesterday, I was in town with one of my ladies-in-waiting when I came upon the most magnificent horse. Well, it wasn't a horse actually, but it looked just like one...only it had two giant wings. A man emerged from the adoring crowd and informed me that the creature's name was Pegasus. He had bought it from a mysterious peddler in Greece. Anyhow, the man--the one who bought the horselike beast--is quite the world traveler, and it turns out that he's also an inventor and an artist. He even offered to paint my portrait. Now, I'm usually opposed to such nonsense; what kind of lady takes to such notions of vanity? Besides, my husband, Francesco, would be beside himself with fury. However, I heard about this project and thought this would be the best opportunity to conduct my observation report because half the women who follow me around all day don't even understand the word literacy, much less know how to read or write.

Needless to say, I agreed to serve as the subject of da Vinci's painting. We met in his studio in Florence--a bare room with concrete walls and unsightly furnishings. I remarked that the setting would not look very good in the background of the portrait, but he assured me that he would fill in the atmosphere with the landscape of his dreams...whatever that means. He implored for me to maintain a look of sombre reflection, but he kept mumbling to himself so often that I found it difficult to keep a straight face. "Ma Donna Giocondo," he beseeched. "Please do sit still and try not to laugh. This is serious business, this is."

The man took his time, first sketching my image (with his left hand of all things!). But he kept taking short breaks to scratch notes in his journal. He tried to shield his writing from me, but I got a brief look of a grocery shopping list before he snatched the journal away. Apparently, he's out of eggs and milk. His assistant, Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, entered the room and called the artist outside for a secretive conversation. I took this time to gaze about the room. It appears that da Vinci is very well read. He has several books arranged in shelves and stacked in corners throughout the room, among them I saw: De Divina Propotione authored by himself and the mathmetician Pacioli, the Holy Bible, St. Augustine's Confessions, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Hesiod's Theogony. I never knew he appreciated both mythology and Christianity.