Due Dates: The outline for this assignment is due at the end of week 10. The writing workshop for this assignment is due for peer review at the end of week 11. The final project, revised to the best of your ability, will is due on Friday of week 12.
Purpose:
• To present an evidence-based (researched) argument about a central conversation in your field, major, or community in an effort to engage a specific public audience
• To produce a multimodal text that reflects rhetorical awareness of your target audience, purpose, genre, and medium
Overview: This semester, you’ve analyzed public texts that speak to a central conversation happening in your field, major, or community, and you’ve gained knowledge of different stakeholder perspectives. As you’ve researched your topic, you have likely begun to frame your own perspective, as you’ve found arguments that have appealed to you and evidence that has persuaded you. Now it’s time to enter the conversation.
In the final unit this term, you will carry out the plan you articulated in Project 2, creating a public argument that draws upon the research you’ve conducted this term.
Creating a Multi-Modal Text
What is Multimodality?
Literally, “multimodal” means more than one mode. For your purposes, that means the process of changing the form of an idea you’ve written in an essay. Multimodal composition asks you to think “outside the box”—in other words, you must make rhetorical considerations beyond static words on a printed page.
Multimodal composition helps you develop a better sense of a real audience—it’s easier for you to conceptualize the audience for a video or a podcast than an audience for a typographic essay. Multimodal composition gives you more a versatile and real-world skill set that is applicable outside of college. Multimodal composition forces you to “remediate” content. Remediation is everywhere—think about online newspapers, or e-books. We now see remediated content remediated further—think about “video podcasts.”
Your digital text can be created using whatever technologies you wish to explore, but the apps below are easy-to-use and free. Digital remediation is “re-mediating”—adapting a message from its current page- based medium to some other medium using digital technology. This project asks you to consider the various affordances of the medium: techniques, audiences, language use, etc. that may or may not be available to you in a page-based medium, as well as reflect on what rhetorical knowledge does transfer across different media.
This project is about affordances of different media, especially in terms of interactivity with your audience. You should imagine your audience as extending beyond our class, a public venue and not just your peers and professor.
Choose one of the following multimodalities to deliver your public argument. All resources should be free; do not pay for anything!
1. A Web Page or Site
• Click here for tools on graphic design
• Click here for tools on Web pages (I think Google Sites is fun and easy)
2. A Web Article
• You may use Microsoft Word or another word processing software to write a web article, such as one you might find in The Atlantic Monthly and many other online publications that incorporate images, audio, social media, etc.
• Note that web articles use links to make references and incorporate their sources. Find a good model and follow it closely. How does the author of article use hyperlinks? Which specific words/phrases in a sentence are hyperlinked? (Hint: check out the signal phrases, for example, “As a recent experiment at the Stanford Space Lab demonstrated…” or “Professor Johansen has argued that”… those are the phrases—called signal phrases–that are linked to the respective references).
• Most web articles include images and/or graphs, infographics, audio, or movies. They sometimes use screenshots to document social media events. Consider inserting a useful multimodal element into your web article.The key word there is useful. If an image or any other multimodal element is there for decoration only, it’s a distraction. The only good image or multimodal element in a web article is one that furthers the argument: this is something that communicates in its own terms, and adds its own support to your argument.
• Images can be inserted in Microsoft Word using the insert tab. Be sure to properly size your images (a design question) and caption your images (both for copyright purposes–if not your own and proprietary–and also for accessibility).
3. An audio essay or podcast version of your research project
• Click here for tools on audio
4. A short video
• How to make a YouTube Video
• Click here for more tools for videos
• Movie Maker: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/getting-started-with-windows-movie-maker
• Movie Maker: http://desktopvideo.about.com/video/Photo-Slide-Show.htm
• Screeencastomatic: http://som.screencasthost.com/
• IMovie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHYedh_BKY
• Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-8.html”
5. An infographic of your public argument, using tools similar to these
• Piktochart
• Canva
• Google Charts
• Visme
6. A presentation, preferably with audio track of your spoken lecture
• Click here for tools on other formats like PowerPoint and Prezi
Your Public Argument will be submitted in three parts:
Outline (25 points) – Due Week 10
The form your outline for your public argument takes, as well as its content, will likely differ depending on your genre/mode. If you are writing a more traditional academic essay, it will look like a more traditional outline. If you are creating a podcast, the outline will cover the topics and the main points associated with each. A video would require a storyboard and notes, while a comic or photo essay would require a layout and rough sketch. Other media will need something appropriate to highlight your structure. Consult the OER chapter 7 for some pointers.
Writing Workshop (25 points) — Due Week 11
Regardless of what you are creating, you will need to go through a process of revision and editing, thus your first complete draft will not be your final draft. You will complete a writer’s workshop (instructions in the course). You will also peer review at least two of your peers. You will then apply to your revision and editing process. This may include addition of elements, removal of others, clarification, restructuring, rephrasing, or any other changes that need to be made to make your argument more effective.
Final Product of Public Argument (150) – Due Friday of Week 12
The final product will be submitted via appropriate methods, so if a video has been posted, a working link will need to be provided, while a podcast may be submitted as an audio file, for example. This final product must also include notes about how feedback was applied, the process of revision employed, and anything else that should be known about this assignment.
1. Be sure to submit your work using a file that your teacher can access (i.e. compatible with Brightspace, or a link that is accessible to your teacher).
2. Include notes (250-500 words) about how instructor and peer feedback was applied, the process of revision employed, and anything else you wish to make known about this assignment.
3. It is difficult to give a length guideline, since each project will be different. A 5-7 page research argument paper is a measuring stick: that amount of thoroughness and completion is expected. What that looks like will depend on the mode/genre you choose.Due Dates: The outline for this assignment is due at the end of week 10. The writing workshop for this assignment is due for peer review at the end of week 11. The final project, revised to the best of your ability, will is due on Friday of week 12.
Purpose:
• To present an evidence-based (researched) argument about a central conversation in your field, major, or community in an effort to engage a specific public audience
• To produce a multimodal text that reflects rhetorical awareness of your target audience, purpose, genre, and medium
Overview: This semester, you’ve analyzed public texts that speak to a central conversation happening in your field, major, or community, and you’ve gained knowledge of different stakeholder perspectives. As you’ve researched your topic, you have likely begun to frame your own perspective, as you’ve found arguments that have appealed to you and evidence that has persuaded you. Now it’s time to enter the conversation.
In the final unit this term, you will carry out the plan you articulated in Project 2, creating a public argument that draws upon the research you’ve conducted this term.
Creating a Multi-Modal Text
What is Multimodality?
Literally, “multimodal” means more than one mode. For your purposes, that means the process of changing the form of an idea you’ve written in an essay. Multimodal composition asks you to think “outside the box”—in other words, you must make rhetorical considerations beyond static words on a printed page.
Multimodal composition helps you develop a better sense of a real audience—it’s easier for you to conceptualize the audience for a video or a podcast than an audience for a typographic essay. Multimodal composition gives you more a versatile and real-world skill set that is applicable outside of college. Multimodal composition forces you to “remediate” content. Remediation is everywhere—think about online newspapers, or e-books. We now see remediated content remediated further—think about “video podcasts.”
Your digital text can be created using whatever technologies you wish to explore, but the apps below are easy-to-use and free. Digital remediation is “re-mediating”—adapting a message from its current page- based medium to some other medium using digital technology. This project asks you to consider the various affordances of the medium: techniques, audiences, language use, etc. that may or may not be available to you in a page-based medium, as well as reflect on what rhetorical knowledge does transfer across different media.
This project is about affordances of different media, especially in terms of interactivity with your audience. You should imagine your audience as extending beyond our class, a public venue and not just your peers and professor.
Choose one of the following multimodalities to deliver your public argument. All resources should be free; do not pay for anything!
1. A Web Page or Site
• Click here for tools on graphic design
• Click here for tools on Web pages (I think Google Sites is fun and easy)
2. A Web Article
• You may use Microsoft Word or another word processing software to write a web article, such as one you might find in The Atlantic Monthly and many other online publications that incorporate images, audio, social media, etc.
• Note that web articles use links to make references and incorporate their sources. Find a good model and follow it closely. How does the author of article use hyperlinks? Which specific words/phrases in a sentence are hyperlinked? (Hint: check out the signal phrases, for example, “As a recent experiment at the Stanford Space Lab demonstrated…” or “Professor Johansen has argued that”… those are the phrases—called signal phrases–that are linked to the respective references).
• Most web articles include images and/or graphs, infographics, audio, or movies. They sometimes use screenshots to document social media events. Consider inserting a useful multimodal element into your web article.The key word there is useful. If an image or any other multimodal element is there for decoration only, it’s a distraction. The only good image or multimodal element in a web article is one that furthers the argument: this is something that communicates in its own terms, and adds its own support to your argument.
• Images can be inserted in Microsoft Word using the insert tab. Be sure to properly size your images (a design question) and caption your images (both for copyright purposes–if not your own and proprietary–and also for accessibility).
3. An audio essay or podcast version of your research project
• Click here for tools on audio
4. A short video
• How to make a YouTube Video
• Click here for more tools for videos
• Movie Maker: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/getting-started-with-windows-movie-maker
• Movie Maker: http://desktopvideo.about.com/video/Photo-Slide-Show.htm
• Screeencastomatic: http://som.screencasthost.com/
• IMovie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHYedh_BKY
• Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-8.html”
5. An infographic of your public argument, using tools similar to these
• Piktochart
• Canva
• Google Charts
• Visme
6. A presentation, preferably with audio track of your spoken lecture
• Click here for tools on other formats like PowerPoint and Prezi
Your Public Argument will be submitted in three parts:
Outline (25 points) – Due Week 10
The form your outline for your public argument takes, as well as its content, will likely differ depending on your genre/mode. If you are writing a more traditional academic essay, it will look like a more traditional outline. If you are creating a podcast, the outline will cover the topics and the main points associated with each. A video would require a storyboard and notes, while a comic or photo essay would require a layout and rough sketch. Other media will need something appropriate to highlight your structure. Consult the OER chapter 7 for some pointers.
Writing Workshop (25 points) — Due Week 11
Regardless of what you are creating, you will need to go through a process of revision and editing, thus your first complete draft will not be your final draft. You will complete a writer’s workshop (instructions in the course). You will also peer review at least two of your peers. You will then apply to your revision and editing process. This may include addition of elements, removal of others, clarification, restructuring, rephrasing, or any other changes that need to be made to make your argument more effective.
Final Product of Public Argument (150) – Due Friday of Week 12
The final product will be submitted via appropriate methods, so if a video has been posted, a working link will need to be provided, while a podcast may be submitted as an audio file, for example. This final product must also include notes about how feedback was applied, the process of revision employed, and anything else that should be known about this assignment.
1. Be sure to submit your work using a file that your teacher can access (i.e. compatible with Brightspace, or a link that is accessible to your teacher).
2. Include notes (250-500 words) about how instructor and peer feedback was applied, the process of revision employed, and anything else you wish to make known about this assignment.
3. It is difficult to give a length guideline, since each project will be different. A 5-7 page research argument paper is a measuring stick: that amount of thoroughness and completion is expected. What that looks like will depend on the mode/genre you choose.Due Dates: The outline for this assignment is due at the end of week 10. The writing workshop for this assignment is due for peer review at the end of week 11. The final project, revised to the best of your ability, will is due on Friday of week 12.
Purpose:
• To present an evidence-based (researched) argument about a central conversation in your field, major, or community in an effort to engage a specific public audience
• To produce a multimodal text that reflects rhetorical awareness of your target audience, purpose, genre, and medium
Overview: This semester, you’ve analyzed public texts that speak to a central conversation happening in your field, major, or community, and you’ve gained knowledge of different stakeholder perspectives. As you’ve researched your topic, you have likely begun to frame your own perspective, as you’ve found arguments that have appealed to you and evidence that has persuaded you. Now it’s time to enter the conversation.
In the final unit this term, you will carry out the plan you articulated in Project 2, creating a public argument that draws upon the research you’ve conducted this term.
Creating a Multi-Modal Text
What is Multimodality?
Literally, “multimodal” means more than one mode. For your purposes, that means the process of changing the form of an idea you’ve written in an essay. Multimodal composition asks you to think “outside the box”—in other words, you must make rhetorical considerations beyond static words on a printed page.
Multimodal composition helps you develop a better sense of a real audience—it’s easier for you to conceptualize the audience for a video or a podcast than an audience for a typographic essay. Multimodal composition gives you more a versatile and real-world skill set that is applicable outside of college. Multimodal composition forces you to “remediate” content. Remediation is everywhere—think about online newspapers, or e-books. We now see remediated content remediated further—think about “video podcasts.”
Your digital text can be created using whatever technologies you wish to explore, but the apps below are easy-to-use and free. Digital remediation is “re-mediating”—adapting a message from its current page- based medium to some other medium using digital technology. This project asks you to consider the various affordances of the medium: techniques, audiences, language use, etc. that may or may not be available to you in a page-based medium, as well as reflect on what rhetorical knowledge does transfer across different media.
This project is about affordances of different media, especially in terms of interactivity with your audience. You should imagine your audience as extending beyond our class, a public venue and not just your peers and professor.
Choose one of the following multimodalities to deliver your public argument. All resources should be free; do not pay for anything!
1. A Web Page or Site
• Click here for tools on graphic design
• Click here for tools on Web pages (I think Google Sites is fun and easy)
2. A Web Article
• You may use Microsoft Word or another word processing software to write a web article, such as one you might find in The Atlantic Monthly and many other online publications that incorporate images, audio, social media, etc.
• Note that web articles use links to make references and incorporate their sources. Find a good model and follow it closely. How does the author of article use hyperlinks? Which specific words/phrases in a sentence are hyperlinked? (Hint: check out the signal phrases, for example, “As a recent experiment at the Stanford Space Lab demonstrated…” or “Professor Johansen has argued that”… those are the phrases—called signal phrases–that are linked to the respective references).
• Most web articles include images and/or graphs, infographics, audio, or movies. They sometimes use screenshots to document social media events. Consider inserting a useful multimodal element into your web article.The key word there is useful. If an image or any other multimodal element is there for decoration only, it’s a distraction. The only good image or multimodal element in a web article is one that furthers the argument: this is something that communicates in its own terms, and adds its own support to your argument.
• Images can be inserted in Microsoft Word using the insert tab. Be sure to properly size your images (a design question) and caption your images (both for copyright purposes–if not your own and proprietary–and also for accessibility).
3. An audio essay or podcast version of your research project
• Click here for tools on audio
4. A short video
• How to make a YouTube Video
• Click here for more tools for videos
• Movie Maker: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/getting-started-with-windows-movie-maker
• Movie Maker: http://desktopvideo.about.com/video/Photo-Slide-Show.htm
• Screeencastomatic: http://som.screencasthost.com/
• IMovie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHYedh_BKY
• Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-8.html”
5. An infographic of your public argument, using tools similar to these
• Piktochart
• Canva
• Google Charts
• Visme
6. A presentation, preferably with audio track of your spoken lecture
• Click here for tools on other formats like PowerPoint and Prezi
Your Public Argument will be submitted in three parts:
Outline (25 points) – Due Week 10
The form your outline for your public argument takes, as well as its content, will likely differ depending on your genre/mode. If you are writing a more traditional academic essay, it will look like a more traditional outline. If you are creating a podcast, the outline will cover the topics and the main points associated with each. A video would require a storyboard and notes, while a comic or photo essay would require a layout and rough sketch. Other media will need something appropriate to highlight your structure. Consult the OER chapter 7 for some pointers.
Writing Workshop (25 points) — Due Week 11
Regardless of what you are creating, you will need to go through a process of revision and editing, thus your first complete draft will not be your final draft. You will complete a writer’s workshop (instructions in the course). You will also peer review at least two of your peers. You will then apply to your revision and editing process. This may include addition of elements, removal of others, clarification, restructuring, rephrasing, or any other changes that need to be made to make your argument more effective.
Final Product of Public Argument (150) – Due Friday of Week 12
The final product will be submitted via appropriate methods, so if a video has been posted, a working link will need to be provided, while a podcast may be submitted as an audio file, for example. This final product must also include notes about how feedback was applied, the process of revision employed, and anything else that should be known about this assignment.
1. Be sure to submit your work using a file that your teacher can access (i.e. compatible with Brightspace, or a link that is accessible to your teacher).
2. Include notes (250-500 words) about how instructor and peer feedback was applied, the process of revision employed, and anything else you wish to make known about this assignment.
3. It is difficult to give a length guideline, since each project will be different. A 5-7 page research argument paper is a measuring stick: that amount of thoroughness and completion is expected. What that looks like will depend on the mode/genre you choose.
