Good morning, everyone!
All of the information is posted for this week on Blackboard. Please find a partner or a group (3-4 people) to work with on Project 4 and let me know who you will be working with. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Best,
Courtney
Blog Assignment 8: Outline of Group Project Presentation
For this blog assignment, we would like you to provide a carefully thought out outline of what you feel should be included in the group project presentation your team will be required to deliver at the end of the semester. That is, employing the guidelines for creating successful public presentations discussed in Chapter 13 of WAPP, we would like you to draft an extended summary of everything you believe should be included in a 10 to 15 minute presentation on the work your team completed for its final project, as well as any notes on visual aids, handouts, or other types of materials you think would be helpful to give to your audience.
Your outline need not be a word-for-word script of everything that you believe your team members would say during such a presentation, but it does need to include enough specific detail about each topic and point that would be made so that readers have a good sense of what both the structure and substance the your presentation would be like. Indeed, each group may very well consider these postings as a way of making decisions about what to include in their presentations when they collaborate in class, so you’ll want to use this opportunity to sketch out in some detail your own vision of what a successful presentation would look like.
It might be helpful to refer to the discussion in "Guideline 4: Use a Simple Structure," and specifically the sample outline provided in your online reading for this week, as a way of organizing your presentation. If you have time, you might also want to provide links to documents, online videos, and/or other visual aids that you feel might be good illustrations of the types of things you'd want to include in your own presentation, if these would help your reader visualize what you envision.
However you choose to structure your outline, and whatever additional material you prepare to go along with your sketch, this blog posting should be at least 300 words in length.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Blog Seven: Editorial Assignment
Good morning, everyone! I just sent out all of this week's assignment information via Black Board. Here is your seventh blog assignment. I have been impressed with many of your blogs and web sites. Keep up the good work!
Best,
Courtney
Blog Assignment 7: Editorial For this blog assignment, we would like you to write and post an editorial on an issue that seems timely and important, and about which you can present an effective case that will move people to share a particular point of view on this topic. That is, your goal will be to engage an issue, problem, situation, event, or trend that you feel is significant and worth addressing, and to talk about the issue in a way that will appeal to a wider public audience and persuade them to take a particular stance.
You may choose any issue you wish to write about, keeping in mind that in order to write effectively, you will need to think very carefully about four things:
Timing/timeliness; that is, you will want pick a topic that is current, relevant, or interesting to a group of people besides just yourself, and you will need to discuss this topic in ways that engage a real set of readers to want to take some action on the issue;
Situation/context; while it is perfectly acceptable to pick a local topic or issue, you will want to spend some time thinking carefully about where such an editorial might actually appear, and how this context might affect other choices you make as a writer;
Audience; who are you writing to, and how can you discuss this issue or topic in ways that will engage the widest number of people, even those who might not be inclined to think this topic important initially;
Intention; what you hope to accomplish in writing this letter, keeping in mind that you might want different readers to have different reactions to different aspects of your discussion.
Your editorial itself should be between 300 and 500 words long, and should be targeted toward a specific publication or website (with the name of the publication or URL of the website included in your post). To demonstrate that you’ve considered each of the four aspects above, we would like you to submit a 250 word description of your rhetorical situation (your thoughts on the above points) after your editorial.
Remember, your editorial is meant to be persuasive, meaning that you should seek to reinforce, reverse and/or shape a set of ideas and beliefs about this topic. We will also want to see that you engage each of the guidelines for persuasion we’ve been talking about the last few weeks, as well as some of the moves of proposals you've been studying throughout the semester.
Best,
Courtney
Blog Assignment 7: Editorial For this blog assignment, we would like you to write and post an editorial on an issue that seems timely and important, and about which you can present an effective case that will move people to share a particular point of view on this topic. That is, your goal will be to engage an issue, problem, situation, event, or trend that you feel is significant and worth addressing, and to talk about the issue in a way that will appeal to a wider public audience and persuade them to take a particular stance.
You may choose any issue you wish to write about, keeping in mind that in order to write effectively, you will need to think very carefully about four things:
Timing/timeliness; that is, you will want pick a topic that is current, relevant, or interesting to a group of people besides just yourself, and you will need to discuss this topic in ways that engage a real set of readers to want to take some action on the issue;
Situation/context; while it is perfectly acceptable to pick a local topic or issue, you will want to spend some time thinking carefully about where such an editorial might actually appear, and how this context might affect other choices you make as a writer;
Audience; who are you writing to, and how can you discuss this issue or topic in ways that will engage the widest number of people, even those who might not be inclined to think this topic important initially;
Intention; what you hope to accomplish in writing this letter, keeping in mind that you might want different readers to have different reactions to different aspects of your discussion.
Your editorial itself should be between 300 and 500 words long, and should be targeted toward a specific publication or website (with the name of the publication or URL of the website included in your post). To demonstrate that you’ve considered each of the four aspects above, we would like you to submit a 250 word description of your rhetorical situation (your thoughts on the above points) after your editorial.
Remember, your editorial is meant to be persuasive, meaning that you should seek to reinforce, reverse and/or shape a set of ideas and beliefs about this topic. We will also want to see that you engage each of the guidelines for persuasion we’ve been talking about the last few weeks, as well as some of the moves of proposals you've been studying throughout the semester.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Week 6 Blog Assignment
Hi everyone!! For this week's blog assignment, please leave your name and the url for your new website in the comments section below. Visit the sites of three of your classmates and leave comments for them, via their site, about the site's appearance, design, and creative aesthetic. That's it for this week!!
Best,
Courtney
Best,
Courtney
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