Author: Jody R. Rosen

How will you start Project #5? some ideas:

• review previous work to think about what to refer to
• freewrite after reviewing the requirements
• brainstorm
• outline

As we discussed in class on Tuesday, today’s class session is an opportunity for you to continue working on Project #4. You can work in the classroom, in the library, in the G600 computer labs, the lab in the Learning Center, or elsewhere. If you have questions, ask your classmates, or reply here or email me and I’ll check back after my conference presentation is over.

Please refer to the Class Notes for 12/3 for more information about how to organize Part 4 of Project #4, and for other information about the project and the rest of the semester.

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What do we want to present about each format/statement type?

• definition: what is it?
• steps to make your own statement
• format
• length
• audience: who, what level, what understanding?
• tone and style, vocabulary
• what is it used for?
• examples

As a group preparing for the presentation, what is your process?

1. look at what’s in the annotated bibliography!
2. decide which sources to use, and for what
3. start making a list
4. post your list on the OpenLab
5. present your ideas!

Thinking about combining text and visual content, we considered:

1. palimpsest
2. ekphrasis/ ekphrastic poetry
3. collage poetry
4. found poetry
5. blackout poetry
6. concrete poetry
7. diastic poetry

Try one of these! How might you use any of these techniques to bring text into your Ways of Seeing collection?

As we consider your creative motivations and expression as designers, we can ask what we call the statement you write to express those aspects of your creativity and vision.

Let’s read together this December 2011 multi-part inquiry into the subject:

“What is a Designer Statement?: Reinfurt, Goggin, Dixon”