Welcome to Project #2

What was your research question?

The website you design is your own, which means it represents you, your style and your brand as a student. Consider that you choose your topics, these also represent your brand. So when you design the page for P1, consider that P2 is in conversation with that, and the style choices should be similar. Resist the urge to completely change color schemes, fonts and design choices. Go back to those websites you studies and notice how those web designers will use the same fonts from page to page. If they make a major change, ask yourself why a designer would do that? Are they doing it to make a grand statement? To change the tone? To draw attention to something important?

Project 2 was your major research paper. I would encourage you to provide links to your sources if at all possible. However, if you cannot, be sure to cite everything in MLA style. Include a Works Cited, not as a document, but as something that people can see on the page. When you are reading something online, often in these situation, writers will use hyper-linked footnotes. I am not requiring that for this project, but if you are an ambitious student and would like to tackle formatting your project in that form, then I will not hold you back.

You might decide to use photos and art on this page. I am allowing you to make that decision on your own. However, when adding photos to a page, ask yourself if they are necessary. The major design feature on this page will be your work. Don't use art that does not compliment your project or make your project look better. Low-res photos, strange cutouts, memes or gifs can sometimes be more distracting than enhancing.

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

Peer Reviewed Draft

Remember, this is your first draft. You can find this on your group's file exchange page.

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Conference Draft

Remember conferences? Those are fun. I asked you to come to upload a draft to Blackboard before you arrived. Remember that?

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Final Draft (and remember this is optional. Only if you have revised your draft again)

If you have revised your P2, then I want you to put your graded draft here.

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Project Proposal

You uploaded a Project Proposal. Post that here. Also, update this if you changed your research question along the way.

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Annotated Bibliography

That was a long document. You put a lot of work into it.

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Don't forget your reflection...

If you recall, each project requires you to reflect on what the composition of this project was like for you. And when I ask that question, I am not asking if you liked it. This is not an opportunity to provide a Yelp review for P2. This if about you explaining how you tackled a project which asked you to challenge yourself by developing a research question instead of an argument, utilize peer reviewed sources and write about a subject as an observer instead of a participant through using 3rd person.

Ask yourself these questions:

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?
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])