{"id":17681,"date":"2016-04-05T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=17681"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:20:36","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-april-5-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17681","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8212; April 5, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/syllabus.jpg\" alt=\"Syllabus\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong><br \/>\nNotes from an Accidental Professor<br \/>\nby Lynda Barry<br \/>\n<a title=\"call number\" href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:default_scope:UWI71385146090002121\" target=\"_blank\">PN6727.B36 S95 2015<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>Lynda Barry, an award-winning cartoonist, also teaches courses on writing, drawing, and creativity at UW-Madison. This illustrated notebook recounts her thoughts, assignments, syllabus, and student work from the planning stages of a course about writing through the actual instruction. \u00a0She designed the class exercises and lesson plans around the idea that anyone can be a writer. The assignments not only push students to be more creative when responding to writing prompts but also in their everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>You can read through more of Barry&#8217;s syllabi (she keeps an online archive)\u00a0at her <a href=\"http:\/\/thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>. You can read more about the course that\u00a0<em>Syllabus<\/em> is based on in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/11\/lynda-barrys-wonderfully-illustrated-syllabus-homework-assignments-from-her-uw-madison-class-the-unthinkable-mind.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry PN6727.B36 S95 2015 New Arrivals, 2nd floor Lynda Barry, an award-winning cartoonist, also teaches courses on writing, drawing, and creativity at UW-Madison. This illustrated notebook recounts her thoughts, assignments, syllabus, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[306,110698,946,3042,546],"class_list":["post-17681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-art","tag-graphic-nonfiction","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-resources","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17681"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions\/17763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}