Category: Homework Prompts

Please post the proposal and HW 3.1 as separate posts using the designated categories.

(For those of you who were unable to attend the Zoom meeting, you can find the recording here.)

Unit 3 Proposal

In this unit, you’ll be writing about the topic you researched in Unit 2 for an audience of your choosing– so now it’s time to think about what genre you think will best reach your audience!

WRITE:  You will need to write a proposal of at least 200 words outlining what you plan to do for Unit 3. This proposal should tell us: 

• A 1-2 sentence statement of what you want to teach your audience (the most important thing you learned in Unit 2) 
• The audience you are trying to reach
• The genre you are planning to write in and why you chose it (see this incomplete list of genres you could potentially work with)
• A plan — how do you intend to get started? What will be your FIRST STEP?
• Anything you might be worried about.  What are your concerns about finishing this project?

CATEGORY: Unit 3 Proposals

HW 3.1 

READ (and comment): Read at least two of your colleagues’ Unit 3 proposals, and comment on them. Comments should be at least 100 words. Please do not simply say “sounds great!” because that is not helpful! Think about the kind of things that might be helpful to you as you embark on this project. Here are some ideas: 

• A specific publication or website you think the author could write for
• A question or comment to help narrow down the audience: “You say you want young people to watch this video essay, but there’s no publication that all young people watch. Are you actually trying to reach New Yorkers?”
• A question or comment to help narrow down the genre: “There are a lot of different kinds of articles in the world. You could be writing for a newspaper like the New York Times or a website like Buzzfeed, and the writing is totally different for both. Can you be more specific?”
• You can also just talk about things in the proposal you find especially cool or exciting. 

WRITE: Answer the “Know Your Publication” Questions we looked at in class for the hypothetical publication YOU would like to publish in.

WRITE: Write a plan for Unit 3 – New Genre piece.  What are your goals for working/ thinking/ brainstorming/ gathering material? Write a schedule.

CATEGORY: UNIT 3

WRITE: Final Source entry 

WRITE: Conclusion (at least 400 words). For your conclusion: 

• You will summarize what you found in your research
• You will tell readers what surprised you, or how your understanding of your question deepened or changed. (Spoiler: if the answer is “not at all”, you did not do enough research.) 
• You will explain why what you learned is important
• You will explain who you think needs to know about it and why (Another spoiler: be specific!  The answer can not be “everyone.”  That is too big of an audience.  Narrow it down to who needs to hear about it first!)

Compile and Post your bibliography. Put everything together into a single document. If you’d like, you can select a report template from Canva and fill it out with the material you’ve written for this assignment. Post rough draft of annotated bibliography on the website.