English 104
Sections 104-67 and 104-75
Spring 2012
Tess Evans
Major Writing Project #4:
Multimodal/Multimedia Project worth 10% final grade
The Assignment:
Share your research with a wider audience.
Determine your message, audience, medium, form, and purpose.
Brainstorm, research, plan, write, and produce your project.
Get frustrated, troubleshoot, ask for help, keep trying to figure it out.
Present your work to the class for peer review, and revise based on that input.
Develop a collaborative 15-minute presentation with your peer review group to be delivered during the final exam period (3 people/5 minutes per person).
The Purpose: To enhance…
Functional Literacy (How to use technologies)
Critical Literacy (How to analyze and evaluate information and technologies)
Rhetorical Literacy (How to effectively synthesize information, combine multiple modalities, and utilize technologies to create your own message)
Criteria: Follow the Writing Program rubric, in addition to the instructions below:
Risk: Take a chance. Try something new. Be creative. Have fun with it.
Content: Create a clear, concise message, based on your previous research, but this time directed to a general audience. You should limit the scope of your message and use language that is accessible to a wide range of people. You can also create your own audio and images, if possible.
Fair Use: Find audio and images you can use without infringing on the creator’s copyright, and attribute those sources accurately.
Design: Create a design of text and image that is aesthetically pleasing and suited to your message and audience. Use readable typefaces and colors/shades that complement. The design should enhance the message, not obscure it. Web pages should look good and make sense without the user needing to scroll down—but if they do need to scroll down, need to make that obvious. Videos and presentation formats need a storyboard to precisely plan and time the script and match it to the visuals.
Production: Make sure video or audio is two minutes or less in length. Keep Web sites and other forms of visual presentation short and simple: Make sure they are easy to navigate and that all links work properly. Make sure all text is grammatically and mechanically correct. Make sure actors and voice-over announcers enunciate clearly and speak slowly enough to be understood. Practice to help eliminate words, phrases, or long sentences that are easier to read than to hear. Get your work in a form accessible to the class for viewing.
Send me the URL for your project so I can post it to the class blog for peer review and for the final presentation.
The Schedule:
Tues., April 10: In-class workshop
Thurs., April 12: Peer review and in-class conferencing
Tues., April 17: Fair Use & Copyright Infringement workshop at Bracken Library
Thurs., April 19: Peer review and in-class conferencing
Tues., April 24: Whole class peer review
Thurs., April 26: Whole class peer review
Final Exam: Reflective Essay worth 10% final grade
Write a three-page reflective essay about your experience in this class, touching on the interview essay, proposal and annotated bibliography, research essay, multimodal project, peer review, and class blog. 750-1,000 words.
FINAL EXAM PERIOD: Final Presentations and Reflective Essays due
3:30 p.m. class (104-67): 2:15-4:15 p.m., Friday, May 4
5:00 p.m. class (104-75): 4:30-6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 2
