RWS 305 Copeland PROJECT #3 Writing in the Genres of your Discipline or Special Interest YOUR TASKS: 1. Construct a text of a specific genre that represents your discipline or field (your future profession), or an area of special interest. a. You have two options: Academic lecture, or Ted Talk. b. In either case, this text should emanate from a sense of interest, passion, fluency, and authority. c. The Lecture or Ted Talk must be written in paragraph form, including an outline of this lecture/talk. Again, you must write-out the lecture/talk in paragraph form AND create a detailed outline of this lecture/talk. d. In a 10 minute video presentation, you will record this talk and post it to Blackboard. You can personalize your “talk,” be somewhat creative; after all, “genre becomes a way of navigating social activity. As such, it is dynamic, because the conditions of social activity are always in flux. [As a result], recurrence involves variation (Berkenkotter and Huckin). However, despite its personal touch, the “text” you create must “do” whatever is typical of such a text (typifies that particular social action). In other words, each text (lecture, Ted Talk) fits into a particular genre, and plays a particular role in that discourse community. We are focusing on the specificity of genre and how it acts as a kind of constituent of the culture to which it belongs. The assignments for this project are outlined below with possible points for each assignment. You have 5 different assignments that add-up to 100 points total. 1. Written Lecture or Ted Talk – 35 point (This is in paragraph form and in outline form. Got it? Due: 3/31 – Emailed to me. 2. Presentation – 35 pts (I want to clarify: this is a student-friendly assignment in that you are working on material that should really interest you. If this is not the case, and you’re not very interested in your lecture or Ted Talk, re-think your project. Having said all of that, to get 63-70 points on this particular written and video portion of the assignment, your text and presentation have to be very well conceived and executed with a nice dash of professionalism, smarts, insight and confidence (you have to create a credible Academic lecture or Ted Talk). We are constructing and presenting actual texts that play specific roles in a discourse community. I use a simple presentation rubric. Due: 3/27 – Posted on Blackboard. 3. You must write a Rhetorical Analysis of your Lecture or Ted Talk – 15 pts (three pages MLA) Due: 3/31 – Emailed to me. 4. You must write a Rhetorical Analysis of another student’s video –15 pts (one page MLA) Due: 3/31 – Emailed to me. The Calendar has all of these assignments sequenced with these due dates and I will have weekly lectures discussing these assignments and reminding you of the due dates. RWS 305 Copeland PROJECT #3 Writing in the Genres of your Discipline or Special Interest YOUR TASKS: 1. Construct a text of a specific genre that represents your discipline or field (your future profession), or an area of special interest. a. You have two options: Academic lecture, or Ted Talk. b. In either case, this text should emanate from a sense of interest, passion, fluency, and authority. c. The Lecture or Ted Talk must be written in paragraph form, including an outline of this lecture/talk. Again, you must write-out the lecture/talk in paragraph form AND create a detailed outline of this lecture/talk. d. In a 10 minute video presentation, you will record this talk and post it to Blackboard. You can personalize your “talk,” be somewhat creative; after all, “genre becomes a way of navigating social activity. As such, it is dynamic, because the conditions of social activity are always in flux. [As a result], recurrence involves variation (Berkenkotter and Huckin). However, despite its personal touch, the “text” you create must “do” whatever is typical of such a text (typifies that particular social action). In other words, each text (lecture, Ted Talk) fits into a particular genre, and plays a particular role in that discourse community. We are focusing on the specificity of genre and how it acts as a kind of constituent of the culture to which it belongs. The assignments for this project are outlined below with possible points for each assignment. You have 5 different assignments that add-up to 100 points total. 1. Written Lecture or Ted Talk – 35 point (This is in paragraph form and in outline form. Got it? Due: 3/31 – Emailed to me. 2. Presentation – 35 pts (I want to clarify: this is a student-friendly assignment in that you are working on material that should really interest you. If this is not the case, and you’re not very interested in your lecture or Ted Talk, re-think your project. Having said all of that, to get 63-70 points on this particular written and video portion of the assignment, your text and presentation have to be very well conceived and executed with a nice dash of professionalism, smarts, insight and confidence (you have to create a credible Academic lecture or Ted Talk). We are constructing and presenting actual texts that play specific roles in a discourse community. I use a simple presentation rubric. Due: 3/27 – Posted on Blackboard. 3. You must write a Rhetorical Analysis of your Lecture or Ted Talk – 15 pts (three pages MLA) Due: 3/31 – Emailed to me. 4. You must write a Rhetorical Analysis of another student’s video –15 pts (one page MLA) Due: 3/31 – Emailed to me. The Calendar has all of these assignments sequenced with these due dates and I will have weekly lectures discussing these assignments and reminding you of the due dates.
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