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Week 11: Drafting & Building Project 3: The Multimodal project

Class Info

  • Dates: Thursday, April 20, 2023-Wednesday, April 26, 2023
  • Meeting Info: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-11:15am in room N618

Objectives

  • To submit Projects 1& 2 if you haven’t already
  • To consider multimodal texts and draft Project 3

For Thursday, 4/20

Reading

Akwaeke Emezi – “You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty” on The Daily Show

Writing

  • Finish Project 2 if you haven’t already

In Class Thursday, 4/20

  • Invitation to the Literary Arts Festival, Thursday, April 27, 4:00-6:00pm, in the auditorium in the Academic Building
    • Festival features student award winners and author Akwaeke Emezi
    • Everyone gets a copy of Emezi’s novel, Freshwater (content warning: includes depiction of sexual assault)
  • Discussing Project 3
  • Discussing Multimodal Examples
    • assigned examples: review these examples in groups. What are their features? What audiences do they reach?
    • find a mentor text of your own and explain to the class why you think this is a useful model for your work.

For Tuesday, 4/25

Reading

  • Project 3 mentor texts

Writing

  • Discussion question TBA

In-Class Tuesday, 4/25

  • Multimodal Brainstorming and Reflection Worksheet
  • Using your Op-Ed and related research, answer the following six questions:
  1. Write down your research topic and your overall argument/stance/point on this topic from Project 2.
  2. Who do you think needs to hear about this information and argument? Write down a specific group, discourse community, or person. It should not be everyone. Your audience will affect the multimodal genre you choose to compose in for Project 3.
    • we talked about using some local groups as audiences, such as City Tech’s NYPIRG chapter (we looked at their Twitter account) as well as CUNY’s USS (University Student Senate). For more local news outlets, we talked about The Gothamist and programming on WNYC (NYC Public Radio)
  3. Explain in detail why you chose this audience—to do so, think about the following:  How does this topic and argument relate to your chosen audience? Why do you think this information is useful for this particular audience?
  4. What is your specific purpose for sharing your research and argument with your chosen audience?  In other words, what do you want your audience to walk away knowing and believing?
  5. What multimodal genre do you think would be best for communicating with your audience? 
    • Infographic (look at Canva as a tool to help you create one!)
    • Listicle–a list article, can include images (photos, graphics)
    • TED Talk
    • video/audio/written plus image interview
    • guest blog post/magazine article etc (even guest posting on a particular Instagram/Twitter/TikTok account)
  6. Why would this be your choice of genre for this group and for your purpose? Explain your choice in as much detail as possible. 
  7. Think about your chosen audience. Are you a member of that discourse community? How does being inside or outside that discourse community matter when drafting your creation for Project 3?
  8. Remember our work on ethos, logos, and pathos, as ways to appeal to our audience? How will you incorporate these appeals into your work? Here are the videos from our work in Week 9: