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Remix Project
For our previous project, you researched an issue or a trend/phenomenon related to your major or an area of particular interest to you and communicated your findings in an essay format. Our last project asks that you build further on this work and communicate these findings in another format or genre. In other words, you have to translate the information you have created in the essay format to another format.
Options:
PowerPoint
Prezi
Ted Talk
IMovie
Podcast
Poster
Flyer
Pamphlet
Letter
Note that this project requires that you--
1) Make an informed decision regarding the medium you choose:
Your analysis of the rhetorical situation will guide your choice of genre. Given your topic, audience, and purpose*, would a visually heavy genre better serve you, or would an audio venue, like a podcast, be preferable?
*Both your audience and purpose might be different from the ones that informed your choices in the research project.
2) Make the necessary adjustment:
Each genre has its own limitations or constraints. This means that you will need to revisit the evidence used in the research project, possibly adding new info or dropping old one, modify the language used, etc.
In other words, this project asks that you once more make writer’s choices based on your understanding of the ‘new’ rhetorical situation.
Resources: Use the Section and Checklist included in BBG 497-500 and “A Word on Design” (BBG 467) to help you choose a genre.
Visit the Digital Media Studio (DMS), located on the 2nd floor of the James E. Walker Library, to get help with your project.
As usual, you will discuss your process in a companion piece that provides a rationale for the choices you made. In addition to being “a venue in which to discuss [your] work in terms of choices and intentions and… make a case for the sources [you] drew on” ( BBG xiii), the companion piece asks that you answer the following questions regarding these areas:
1) Adapting and applying information to new situations—how did you use your understanding of the rhetorical appeals to inform your work on this project?
2) Communicating information effectively—how effectively do you think you conveyed your info in this new medium of genre?
3) Reflecting and self-assessing—what were the most challenging and the easiest parts of this project? How did you use resources to help you through these challenges? Which aspect of your project are you most proud of? Given more time, what would you differently?
Your companion piece must be at least 600 words.
Submission: Both pieces, the Remix and the Companion piece, must be uploaded to your ePortfolio on D2L. Note that ePortfolios are not to contain proprietary or copyrighted information.
