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Project #1: Guidelines and Style tips

     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 third 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.
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     Project #1 will help you begin to develop the strategies you will need to rhetorically analyze and use different genres and to explore the ways in which genres function in our lives and in various texts. This will also allow me, your instructor, to get to know you better. This project is minimum of 1500 words, typed and double-spaced.


In order to complete this assignment, you will work through several steps: 

  1. Select a Pop Culture icon. Previous topics include Cinderella, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Breaking Bad, Kanye West, and Nicki Minaj.

  2. Locate 3 artifacts which represent this icon. This can include songs, movie posters, advertisements, Snapchat stories, Twitter accounts, clothing or makeup, etc.

  3. Perform a rhetorical analysis on each of the artifacts and explain how they help promote or damage the topic or icon's persona or brand.

  4. Finally, develop a 1500-word essay (that’s typically around 5, double-spaced, 12 point font pages) based on your analysis. Feel free to incorporate images and links that might make your essay more effective.

Draft #1: Peer Review Draft

This is the first draft which you uploaded for peer review. The copy uploaded onto this website should be a pdf, so you do not force the person viewing your website to download your draft onto their computer. The copy you submit to Canvas should be a Word doc.

Draft #3: Graded Draft

If you choose to revise your Project #1 for a higher grade, this is where you would place the graded draft. Your most recent revised draft should be the dominant copy on the page.

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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:

  • What is one thing you learned about the writing process that you will carry over into Project #2? 

  • What will you remember to put into action regarding Peer Feedback for the next project?

  • What is your plan for revision?

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