Project 1 Assignment

Project 1 – Digital Research

Using Blogs and Collaboration to Share Key Concepts about Genre and Rhetoric

Overview

In this project, you’ll work together as a class to produce an online guide to genres.  You’ll each individually create a blog that defines key rhetorical terms, and then you’ll describe how those terms work in relation to the genre of your choice.  As a group, you’ll be providing feedback to your classmates, and then producing a visual guide (a road map) to the resources you’ve produced.  By the end of the project, you’ll each have a functional blog, and the class as a whole will have have produced an online guide to genre.
The ultimate goal of this project is to help each of you become a subject matter expert in the genre of your choice.  This will prepare you for the Project 2 Research Paper by giving you extensive knowledge regarding your genre.  From there, you’ll have the necessary understanding to produce your Project 3 Multimedia Production.

5 blog posts per person

  • This is the place to really explore your genres.  Pick a genre you’re interested in, and then write about what’s interesting in your genre.  Your blog posts can be either formal or informal – I recommend using these as conversation starters.
  • 2 sources per blog post (repeats are allowed – minimum 7 sources total)
  • 500 words each
  • Appropriate use of keyword tags

Blog Design

  • To your blog posts, you’ll add an About Page (500 words) giving an overview of your blog, and a Resources Page (500 words) giving links to outside blogs your readers might enjoy.

Group Resource Map

  • As a group, you’ll provide an outline of the key rhetorical terms.  You’ll each sort your own blog posts by rhetorical term, and then each of you will develop a map for one of the terms.
  • You’ll do most of the coordination in-class, and then refine your individual slides individually at home.
  • For your individual terms, you’ll each visually arrange the hyperlinks to produce a useful guide for outside audiences.
  • You’ll present your group map in-class during the last week of Project 1.
  • Although this is a group project, all grades are individual.  You’ll be graded on your individual slides and how well you present those individual slides.
  • Don’t worry in case presentations makes you nervous.  I don’t grade based on whether or not you “enjoy” being at the front of the room – I grade based on the information you provide.  (Back in college, I hated giving presentations.  Now I’m a teacher, and I give presentations to a room of students every week.  Ironic, no?)

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