ENGL1050 Western Michigan University Women Harassment on Social Media Project

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• Evaluation

Purpose and Directions

The final major project asks you to rework and revise your position paper. This reworking of your position paper will involve you selecting a new genre (type of text) and a new target audience.

For example, if you wanted to speak to city hall at a town meeting in regards to your equity event topic, a presentation might be a good genre choice for your remixed position. Another option is a brochure that outlines the equity event topic and your position on it and could be handed out on campus or at an event to help raise awareness about the equity event.

The genre you choose is up to you. Genre choices include but are not limited to: a website, a memo, a formal business letter, a formal report or white paper, an infographic, a PSA video, a presentation, a newspaper article, a magazine article, etc

In all four of these areas—situation, audience, mode, and medium—you will make important decisions about the direction that your writing will take and you will make carful changes—including the cutting of text and the addition of qualifiers—to your earlier position. Your main goal with this project is to actually craft your position paper into a new genre (type of text) with a new audience.

Formatting Requirements

Ultimately, your reworked position will exceed the written word in its mode or media, which means whatever type of text you decide to create, it should be multimodal (include images and text).

Objectives

This assignment supports the course goals by allowing you to:

• Adapt positions so that you can attempt to make change in the world
• Craft a multimodal text for a specific audience

Evaluation

This project will be graded on how well the reworked composition:

• Shows that information about the position and about the medium have been evaluated to inform the composition
• Reworks information from your position paper in a way that rhetorically addresses a need
• Demonstrates careful attention to situation and audience, modes and media
• Compellingly moves content beyond the written word
• Uses recognizable conventions that are characteristic of the chosen situation, audience, mode, and medium throughout the composition
• Possesses few errors that do not interfere with meaning-making

Rubric

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• Takes work/research from position paper and turns it into a new genre of writing that is targeted at a new audience.
• Genre chosen adheres to the genre conventions
• (for example, if student chose a newsletter, his/her submission looks like a newsletter)
• Writing
• Mechanics
• Target audience is clear
• APA references page is included for sources used in project

Audience

This piece will be public-facing and you will identify the stakeholders/audience for whom you will craft your project.