Assignment
Write a 4 page english essay written for english as a second language professors (ESL), this essay should help the reader see how popular music might enhance student's live in higher education. How popular music can help college students in variety of ways, you should include personal experience, identify to whom this essay for English professors for example can help students bond together by maybe giving them music assignments to work together.
Cultural Literacies: Popular Music in Higher Education
Background: Our study of popular music and songs (particularly the examples from Levitin's The World In Six Songs) reveal to us the ways that cultural contexts lead to specifically chosen forms and methods of delivery as well as to certain interpretations of songs and performances. Considering how popular music (of women, men and groups) has historical referents and less well-known cultural associations enhances our understandings of these songs as they inform our everyday lives. In this paper, you will have the opportunity to analyze popular music as an undergraduate writer for a specific audience. Remember as you select your popular music songs that your goal is to practice using critical analysis and critical writing to generate new knowledge.
Context In a democracy, people are confronted with various images, discourses, points of view, etc. Clearly, democratic consciousness requires us to do more than merely identify with these things. To make decisions about where we stand on political, ethical, commercial, etc. interests, we must use our critical abilities to analyze popular music and use the critical concepts we have studied to discern what these songs mean and how they mean what they mean.
Rhetorical Situation: To help the faculty, staff, and administrators of institutions of higher education understand the popular cultures that inform the lives of their students, you have been asked to analyze some popular music for a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ultimately, your discussion should help the readers see how popular music might enhance students' lives in higher education. You have approximately 1500 words to get the job done. NOVA students have been selected to submit columns because of their reputation as writers whose prose is engaging and in need of little editing; please remember this when you submit your piece for consideration. As with paper #1, you may choose to use revision, arrangement, invention, delivery, and style strategies we have seen at work in our readings and/or some you have created yourself or seen at work in other texts. Some visual representation of your songs of popular music is required by this assignment. It must occur within and enhance the text itself.