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Mass Media Rhetoric
Media Literacy

Department of English, University of Birmingham


Links to lecture notes and other materials

The material for each week will be available in several formats - in web page format (for reading online and downloading for pintout) and in Microsoft Word format (for downloading and printing out etc.)

Introductory material and information

Course Outline: webpage form (one page - read online, or printout)

Course Outline: Microsoft Word format (download and printout)

Unit 1 (preparation for week 2): Issues in Media Discourse Analysis

The primary mode of delivery of the course material is via an online, interactive format. Here you read the notes and make comments, answer questions, do analysis etc online with your responses being saved to a database. They will be delivered to me electronically and I will use them as the basis for discussion in the following week's seminar session. So please endeavour to complete the online materials in advance of each seminar.

I have also provided non interactive versions of the same materials for use if

If you find that the interactive versions seems to have broken down, could you please email me immediately at crisis@lingo.info indicating the day and time you unsuccessfully attempted to access the pages, and if you have time, provide a brief account of what seems to be going wrong.

Primary material for week 1 (please complete this for week 2 seminar).

(non interactive versions) In case of emergencies and for printout etc

Additional Materials to be added in following weeks...