Major Assignments
You have a total of 3 major assignments for this course. Brief descriptions are provided below; as we move through the semester, any assignment sheets, resources, examples, and/or rubrics will be posted here.
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Please submit all Major Assignments to me via Slack on or before their assigned Due Date. You may do this either by sharing a Google Doc (please adjust the permissions so I can leave comments) or as a .pdf file, or for our digital productions, as a link to your finished piece. As always, if Slack fails for whatever reason, please email me a back up of your submission ASAP.
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If you have any questions about a particular project, let me know on Slack or send me an email.
Contribution & Annotated Rationale
Your first project for this class will require you to examine a particular digital culture you either are already a part of, or might like to join. In conjunction with smaller related activities, your final piece for this project will include both a written contribution to the digital culture you’ve chosen, as well as annotations of your writing that explain the logic behind your rhetorical choices. You may choose whether or not to post your contribution to the chosen platform, but it is not required. While the genre expectations will vary based on your chosen culture, most digital writing has the capability to include more than just text, and thus so does your project.
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Due Sunday 10/11 by 11:59 EST PM via Slack
Remix & Remediation
Through the lens of genre and remix studies, this assignment invites you to produce your own remix and/or remediation of existing texts (either digital or otherwise) for audiences of a particular digital culture. While you are welcome to use your contribution and/or culture from Project 1, it is not required. Final projects for this assignment could be songs, videos, visuals, or otherwise.
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Workshop Draft Due 11/11 by 11:59 PM EST
Workshop Feedback Due 11/12 by 11:59 PM EST
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Final Due 11/15 by 11:59 PM EST via Slack
Advocacy Production
Our final project for the course asks you to combine what you’ve learned about contributing, analyzing, and remediating to create your own persuasive digital production for a particular audience/stakeholder with the goal of producing change. That is, your project, in whatever form of digital writing it may take, aims to confront, critique, and potentially produce changes around a particular issue. We will discuss the details of this project more in class, but you will also submit a written research rationale explaining why your chosen topic warrants more discussion, especially for and/or from your particular digital culture.
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Research Rationale Due 11/29 by 11:59 PM EST
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Final Due 12/13 by 11:59 PM EST via Slack