This is a Headline
An essay title acts as a headline
Draft One
This would be your Online Peer Review draft. You uploaded this to blackboard for those in your group to provide feedback.
Conference Draft
This is your second draft. This is the one that you uploaded onto Blackboard before you came to conference.
Third/Graded Draft (Optional - depending on whether you Revised your project for a higher grade)
Did you revise your project for a higher grade? Then you need to post your Third Draft here. Your Revised Draft should not be a document, but laid out on the page to the right.
This section of text here should be your most updated draft. The final draft. The best draft. The one with the highest grade. Were you required to write a fourth draft? No. But sometimes people want to keep working on a project until it is near perfect. Writing is a recursive act. First drafts are rarely perfect, and while one's writing might be better than others, that only means when they approach a second, third or fourth draft, that piece of writing will only improve. Writing is never perfect, only done.
So consider these things while designing this website. What do you like to see when you go to a website. Log onto a few online blogs and magazines and consider where they put words, headlines and photos. Online publications organize texts in a Z shaped formation and structure elements left to right to mimic how humans read. However, some websites choose to center text to bring the eye to the middle. Consider the magazine Vanity Fair. It utilizes a clean white background and large color photos. This is a mostly vertical design. Left hand size, small photos stacked vertically with text beneath. All these photos are links to other stories. Same system on the right except no photos, only text. In the center, the primary article. Scroll down and you'll see a band which runs horizontally of other articles, and the art is captured in circles.
On the other hand, Entertainment Weekly uses a horizontal layout. This magazine wants the reader to see everything important without needing to scroll down the page. The logo and top links are small across the top. They have one photo in the middle, and the text to describe it is on the left. On the right, a list of articles which are trending in the magazine. Again, this page's color palate is minimalist. White background, black text, color photos. Small accents in green and red.
Consider reviewing your favorite website and ask yourself what style and design choices they are using and if that would work for your audience, topic and branding.
Works Cited
Anderson, Daniel. Write Now. Boston: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2012. Print.
Braziller, Amy, and Elizabeth Kleinfeld. "Chapter 1: Understanding Genres." The Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide & Reader. FSU ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's Custom, 2015. 11. Print
Project #1 Reflection...
If you recall, each project requires you to reflect on what the composition of this project was like for you. In this project you were asked to select 3 artifacts from Pop Culture and perform a rhetorical analysis on them. This meant you had to look at the media you consumed not only for entertainment, but also asking yourself why it entertains. You learned terms like: mode, media, audience, purpose, rhetorical appeals, style and design. You also had to write this in 3rd person. This was a challenge. So reflect on that challenge.
Ask yourself these questions:
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When did you have the “big breakthrough?” This could be when you understood what you were really searching for in the research or when a piece of research allowed you to understand something in a new way?
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How could you tell? Did your writing change? Did your research approach change? How does that show in your writing? [Those are the pieces you’ll want to include for each assignment. You may also choose to include any blogs or in-class writings to help illustrate what you’ve learned about writing])