Agenda: Week 11

Monday, 11/2 – Friday, 11/6

By end-of-day Monday, 11/2 the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

• Review your Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography, and think about the issue you have been researching. Pay special attention to the concluding section of your bibliography as you will be expanding on this section for today’s writing assignment.
• Read the sample multimodal text: Chelsea Harrison, “College Students and Social Media.”

• After reviewing Chelsea Harrison’s “College Students and Social Media,” find your assigned Google Doc group (attached to the weekly email). Use the Google Doc designated for your group (also attached to the weekly email), and write a response to  “College Students and Social Media.”
• In your response, answer the following questions (your response should be around 100 words):
• What makes this a multimodal document?
• While this particular piece may be very different from anything you may produce, how does it help you think about the Unit 3: Multimodal Project?

• Write a post under Student Work: Unit 3 Work, in which you respond to the following:
  • Write a paragraph further reflecting and expanding on what you said in the conclusion to your Annotated Bibliography. Which discourse community do you think would benefit from your research? How much do they know about the subject? What assumptions, expectations, and/or concerns might they have? Why and how would this discourse community benefit from this information? What would be the best method/genre/media for reaching your community and why? (approx. 200 words)

By end-of-day Wednesday, 11/4 the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

• Review your research and feel free to do further research as you start to draft Unit 3: Multimodal Project (be sure to document all sources as you go).

• Read through the Google Doc where you responded to Harrison and provide at least one comment to each member of your Google group. You may add to something your peer has observed about Harrison’s piece or ask them a question about how this model has affected their ideas about multimodal composing.

• Write a post under Student Work: Unit 3 Work, in which you do the following:
  • Explain the genre you selected for presenting your information and why you feel this genre is appropriate and effective. What do you hope to accomplish with your piece (persuade, inform, agitate, galvanize, something else)? (approx. 100 words)
  • What are the elements and features of this genre? Some things to consider are the typical length, tone, and format. Also, think about how this genre is organized and how an audience typically responds. Make a list of at least five elements and features and describe each in a few sentences.
  • Explain how you will go about composing your piece. For example: What technologies will you use? What information will you include in your final product? How will you organize it?