Summer 2001:: ENC 1101: Composition
Projects
Assignments for ENC 1101
Banned topics for any portion of the site: abortion, gun control,
religion, euthanasia, personal sexual experiences, and more to be added.
These topics are banned because they are so prevalent in the media that
it is extremely hard to write anything new or interesting or non-offensive
on these topics.
Unit 1: Narrative
This will be the beginning of your website. You will design the index page and at least two other linked pages with this essay. The essay revolves around the introduction of the use of narrative as a writing format. Drawing on an anecdote or some form of narrative, write an essay that does the following: Tells your story. Your overall purpose with this is to establish your personality and authority as a writer and web designer.
Details: You are using this to establish your authority and personality
as a writer.
The site will be due at the beginning of class on July 11. It should
be 1000-1250 words over at least two pages, not including your index
page. A minimum of 2 graphics must be used. You must also begin your
color scheme.
Unit 2: Local Concerns
You will be building a website based on a local concern. You will use the website to evaluate the topic, take a position, and attempt to persuade through written and visual rhetoric.
Details: This essay will be 1000-1250 words long and should explain both your analogy and your concept clearly. HINT: the smaller the concept, the more room you'll have to make your explanation. Two more graphics are required and 2 more pages. This paper is due at the beginning of class on July 20.
Unit 3: Gender Construction
Compare the gender roles presented in Aphex Twin's Window Licker
music video to the gender roles presented in either a movie, television
show, video game, advertisement, or another music video. You must
get my approval on your second source prior to the peer review. If you
are not sure, you can get several sources approved and then select from
them.
Discuss the second source as though your reader has never seen it, but
don't waste space and time descibing parts that do not contribute to
your thesis.
Discuss only relevant points with specific examples and then analyze
them.
Make sure to examine whether the depiction is a gender stereotype or
not. Does the plot/purpose hinge on this stereotype, or was it put in
simply for flavor?
You can get verbatim quotes and plot summaries from many online sources.
We will be watching the Window Licker video together in class
and discussing it.
Details: This page will be 1250-1500 words long. Three citations are required: one will be the Aphex Twin video, one will be from the contrasted source, and the other one is up to your discretion. All citations should be done in MLA format. This page is due by the beginning of class on July 31.
Unit 4: Online and Paper-Based Rhetoric
Note: We will be drawing on comic books as a print media to discuss the differences with print and digital media. With this, we will refrain from overly simplistic evolutionary/replacement of the old with the new concepts and we will refrain from overly simplistic value judgements. Instead, we will investigate how both print and digital media, through form, influence works that use them.
You will be building the final section of your website based on the differences between digital and print based rhetoric. You will use the website to evaluate a source in one form and explain how it could be augmented or injured through the other form. This project will incorporate all the writing skills learned in the class.
Details: The writing in the website must be 1300-1500 words. All citations should be done in MLA format. You must have at least three in text citations. You must be finished no later than August 10, 4pm.