Project #1 Style and Design
Works Cited
Anderson, Daniel. Write Now. Boston: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2012.
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. pp. 11.
The website you design is your own, which means it represents you, your style and your brand as a student.
Resist the urge to completely change color schemes, fonts, and design choices. Go back to those websites frequent 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 1 is your major research paper, but it doesn't need to look like a research paper. You don't need to make sure your name is on it because your name is on the About page. This is your webpage. However, YOU MUST include a Works Cited page and cite everything in MLA style.
You should use photos and art on this page. 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.
On the right, post your supplementary documents like your Outline and Annotated Bibliography. Post these as Pdfs so your reader does not have to download Word documents in order to observe your process. Don't upload with the ugly Pdf icon, but use the Button feature. Under the (+) add and button and make your document accessible through that link.
You are graded on Style and Design.
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 P1. 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])
Don't forget the reflection...
What was your research question?
Final Draft should be dominant text on this page.
Short Assignment #1 - Research Proposal
500 words uploaded as a Pdf
Compose a 500-word proposal designed to organize your ideas and intentions. This proposal will be based on your research question, topic exploration, and tertiary research. Reflect on what may have inspired your desire for further inquiry, including how you came up with the topic, why it might be important, and how they plan to explore the topic in your research.
Short Assignment #2 - Annotated Bibliography
Minimum of 1,500 words - upload as a pdf
You will annotate ten potential sources, which must be academic, scholarly, and/or peer-reviewed sources, examining credibility, relevance, potential incorporation, and potential connections to your research question.
You will write the MLA citations for each source and each annotation should be at least 150 words.
Each annotation should:
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Briefly summarize the source and its main ideas.
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Tell how the source relates to the research topic.
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Tell how the source relates/does not relate to the other sources.
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Tell what new/different information this source provides; explain weaknesses/strengths of the source; tell what about the source the student finds especially interesting
Draft #1: Conference Draft
Upload as Pdf
Before you attend video conference, you should have revised your Peer Review Draft. I will review the conference draft with you. You should take your conference draft and convert it to a Pdf and upload here. The reason is to show the changes you made as a result of Peer Review.
Peer Reviewed Draft
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Take your first draft which you uploaded to Peer Review Groups and convert it to a Pdf and upload here. The reason is to show how the draft progresses over time.