MGP Final Manifestation + Analytic Reflection
Final Manifestation with Analytic Reflection (20% of course grade)
First draft due to Canvas and in class on Tuesday, April 17
Final draft due to Canvas (and WMS 221) by 2:00 p.m. onTuesday, May 1 Wednesday, May 2
First draft due to Canvas and in class on Tuesday, April 17
Final draft due to Canvas (and WMS 221) by 2:00 p.m. on
About the Assignment
The final step in your Multi-Genre Project invites you to make manifest—to visually and materially realize—your original theory as a result of grappling with human rights texts and cross-cultural events. How can you answer the question you have been tracing throughout our course texts, or how has that question evolved? How have you come to understand our transnational rhetorical methodology? Most importantly, what do you want your audience to (be able to) do as a result of interacting with that project? What is the most important outcome of your original theory?
The final step in your Multi-Genre Project invites you to make manifest—to visually and materially realize—your original theory as a result of grappling with human rights texts and cross-cultural events. How can you answer the question you have been tracing throughout our course texts, or how has that question evolved? How have you come to understand our transnational rhetorical methodology? Most importantly, what do you want your audience to (be able to) do as a result of interacting with that project? What is the most important outcome of your original theory?
The Manifestation: Media and Forms
For this project, “material” can mean “digital,” but you are not bound to digital forms.
Possible forms include: a parable or comic/graphic novel; a whiteboard animation; a textual repository or archive; a narrative Infographic or digital poster; a hypertext essay or video essay; a screenplay or documentary; or a rap or slam poetry performance.
If you are composing a digital form, your options for freeware and shareware to help you compose it are vast: including draw.io; emaze; garageband; Gmaps; iPiccy; piktochart; SmartDraw; videoscribe; and picturemosaics, just to name a few. If you have access to and are adept with CreativeCloud, InDesign, PhotoShop, or StorySpace, please feel free to show off your talents. Whatever you do, remember that I am asking you to be makers, not just users. I am asking you to take risks by creating something that does not rely extensively on recycled projects or other peoples’ templates. Your project does not have to look like something a professional would design, but it should be well-rendered, polished, and critically astute. It should have grown thoughtfully and purposefully from your exploration through the course readings, case studies, and discussions. It should be able to teach, and to show off what you know.
The Analytic Reflection
I’ll also ask for a ~3-4 page (double-spaced) analytic reflection in which you discuss—using the language and vocabulary of our course—how the whole Multi-Genre Project reflects what you have learned. Please compose the analytic reflection in Word and include a “Works Cited” list with citations for any sources you used in the project, including visual or digital.
The Recursive Loop: Linking Your Projects Together
In the spirit of our course, I'd like us to try to link all projects together, making one large intertext. We will discuss the logistics of making this happen during the last few weeks of class, when we finish presentations and you have a chance to see what everyone else has created. In the meantime, please be thinking about where your project might provide one or more points of connection to others. [On 4/5/18, we voted as a class not to attempt this step this year. -Dr. G]
The Digital Studio
If you have not already gone there, please check it out. I offer you the Digital Studio as a thinking space, a working space, and a helping space. While the Johnston location has more equipment and a large color printer, the Williams location has whiteboards for mapping and planning. Both spaces are excellent, and both spaces are staffed. Digital Studio consultants are on hand to make recommendations or suggestions for particular applications you might want to use to achieve a particular assignment.
Notes about Peer Workshop Submission and Final Submission
Evaluation Rubric
We will build this as a class during our April 17 workshop, and then I'll circulate it via Canvas.
As always, send any questions my way in advance.
-Prof. Graban
Possible forms include: a parable or comic/graphic novel; a whiteboard animation; a textual repository or archive; a narrative Infographic or digital poster; a hypertext essay or video essay; a screenplay or documentary; or a rap or slam poetry performance.
If you are composing a digital form, your options for freeware and shareware to help you compose it are vast: including draw.io; emaze; garageband; Gmaps; iPiccy; piktochart; SmartDraw; videoscribe; and picturemosaics, just to name a few. If you have access to and are adept with CreativeCloud, InDesign, PhotoShop, or StorySpace, please feel free to show off your talents. Whatever you do, remember that I am asking you to be makers, not just users. I am asking you to take risks by creating something that does not rely extensively on recycled projects or other peoples’ templates. Your project does not have to look like something a professional would design, but it should be well-rendered, polished, and critically astute. It should have grown thoughtfully and purposefully from your exploration through the course readings, case studies, and discussions. It should be able to teach, and to show off what you know.
The Analytic Reflection
I’ll also ask for a ~3-4 page (double-spaced) analytic reflection in which you discuss—using the language and vocabulary of our course—how the whole Multi-Genre Project reflects what you have learned. Please compose the analytic reflection in Word and include a “Works Cited” list with citations for any sources you used in the project, including visual or digital.
The Recursive Loop: Linking Your Projects Together
In the spirit of our course, I'd like us to try to link all projects together, making one large intertext. We will discuss the logistics of making this happen during the last few weeks of class, when we finish presentations and you have a chance to see what everyone else has created. In the meantime, please be thinking about where your project might provide one or more points of connection to others. [On 4/5/18, we voted as a class not to attempt this step this year. -Dr. G]
The Digital Studio
If you have not already gone there, please check it out. I offer you the Digital Studio as a thinking space, a working space, and a helping space. While the Johnston location has more equipment and a large color printer, the Williams location has whiteboards for mapping and planning. Both spaces are excellent, and both spaces are staffed. Digital Studio consultants are on hand to make recommendations or suggestions for particular applications you might want to use to achieve a particular assignment.
Notes about Peer Workshop Submission and Final Submission
- For our workshop on April 17, please bring a complete first draft of your project to class in a form that more than one person can view or access. To be safe, please also upload the draft to Canvas.
- For your final submission, if your manifestation is digital, please upload it to Canvas and deliver a back-up copy to WMS 221 (if you deliver it to me on portable media, such as a thumb drive, I will promise to return the media to you).
- If your manifestation is physical (not digital), then I only need you to deliver it to me in WMS 221.
- The analytic reflection should be uploaded to Canvas in any case, as a .doc or .docx or .pdf.
Evaluation Rubric
We will build this as a class during our April 17 workshop, and then I'll circulate it via Canvas.
As always, send any questions my way in advance.
-Prof. Graban