Due: 5/6/24

Assignment

Note: This is a two-part assignment

Part I

For the first part of this assignment, you will use your op-ed/opinion essay (both the research you did and the argument you made) and present it in a multimodal text composed for City Tech students.

This final creation will go beyond the written word; instead you will communicate using multimodal composing. Think about what you want to say to your City Tech peers and choose a genre that is appropriate for reaching the students you wish to address and for your specific topic.

  • Video, photographic, or graphic essay 
  • Blog post (include images and/or video/audio)
  • Informational brochure (include images/graphics)
  • Infographic
  • Social media thread (include images/graphics)
  • Poster
  • Interview (video or audio; include transcript)
  • You might think of something else!

Remember, the audience you are trying to reach is City Tech students, and perhaps a specific subset of City Tech students (eg. Nursing students, gamers in a gaming club), so don’t choose the genre arbitrarily. You want to choose a genre that is going to speak to students at City Tech. You also want to make sure your genre makes sense for your topic and message.

Part II

For Part II of this assignment, write a substantive reflective personal essay of approximately 600-900 words that discusses your rationale for the multimodal piece you created.

Here you will explain your inspirations, intentions, and choices for your specific multimodal piece. You will also discuss the reasons for your piece: who is your audience? Why did you choose the genre you composed in for your audience and topic? Finally, you will discuss your plan for distribution: how will you make sure your composition, and therefore message, reaches your audience? For this last part, you will need to think about the following: How do you get your text to your audience? How do you make sure your chosen audience sees your text? How do you bring attention to your text and message for your audience’s benefit?

Here are the grading criteria for the Multimodal project:

Part I: Your successful multimodal creation…

  • follows the conventions and formatting of your chosen multimodal genre.
  • integrates the research and argument from your op-ed/opinion essay.
  • uses quotes and/or makes reference to specific data or facts from your research.
  • uses tone, language, grammar, and sentence structure appropriate for this genre and audience.
  • is accompanied by a thoughtful reflective personal essay that discusses the choices you made, how you executed them in your creation, and your plan for successfully reaching your audience.
  • has been carefully proofread, stylized, and polished.

Part II: Your successful reflective personal essay will address the following:

  • your purpose: why did you compose the work on your specific topic?
  • your audience: what did you understand about your audience, why were they an appropriate choice for your topic, and how did this affect the compositional choices you made?
  • your choice of genre: why did you choose this genre for your audience, topic, and argument?
  • your success: looking back at your creation, did you achieve your goals with this project? What would you change, add, or do differently if you had more time to work on this or more developed multimodal skills?
  • your plan: how will you make sure your audience sees your piece and messages? What steps and actions will you take?