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Unit 3 Project 3 Part 1 due in Moodle Monday, March 31 Project 3 Part 2 due in Moodle Friday, April 4 Journals due April 4

Purpose: To use your research to teach or make change To understand genre purpose outside academia To understand rhetorical choices for a non-academic audience To learn the basics of movie software To learn the basics of web design To understand the impact of images and text in digital/public space To demonstrate an understanding of the connection between purpose and context

Project 3 Part 1: Writing Collaboratively (or individually) – a Proposal or Instructions 1. This time you can use your group wiki page to write if you'd like, or make another google.docs page, or, if you choose to work individually, wherever you want. 2. You will need to choose between writing a proposal and writing instructions, as well as whether you will then move this into a digital movie or a website. 3. Once you have decided, please post on your individual wiki page your three choices: working together or individually on the paper, the remediation, or both or neither; proposal or instructions; and website or movie. When you do this, afterward give a brief paragraph about why you've made these choices and what your vision of this project is. 4. You will have time in class to write, but it will be minimal and you will need to do most of your writing outside of class. 5. There is no required page length or formatting. There will be, however, a rubric to help you determine how to shape your paper. 6. If you have chosen to use this unit for your graph or chart, be sure to incorporate this into your paper, give it a caption with explanation, and discuss it. 7. When you have completed this portion of the project, save the paper as a Word document and upload it to Moodle, where there will be a link for uploading Unit 3 part 1. This will be a rough draft only and will not be graded at this time.

Project 2 Part 2: Transitioning Your Paper Into a Movie or Webpage 1. After completing part one, you will transition your paper into a movie or a Webpage. 2. In class you will make both a movie and a Webpage, but will only cover the basics. From there, you will work together (or alone) to complete one or the other. 3. Again, you will want to use images from your research, but may use flickr or googleimages as long as you give them credit. 4. Your audience this time for certain goes beyond me and the class, and your purpose is to take the information you have found in your research and present it in a format that will best convey your instructions or your proposal. The ultimate purpose is to teach others through instruction or to persuade others to follow your proposal. 5. After you have completed your project, you will write a metacommentary on your project: how things went, what you learned, what you struggled with, why you made the choices you made, etc. 6. When your movie or Webpage is complete, you will provide a link for me to visit or you will give me the movie in whatever form makes the most sense. You will also upload your metacommentary to Moodle where there will be a link for Unit 3 metacommentary. 7. While there are no limits or parameters for your projects, there will be a rubric to guide you. 8. You will present your project to the class on your assigned day. You must limit your presentation to five minutes.

Grading As before, your unit will be graded both individually and collaboratively. Make sure when you work on your googledoc to use different colors so I can tell who has contributed what. Your journals will be written separately, and in them please discuss the remediation process from paper to project, so I know how much work you did on it as well.