You may email me your responses directly as a Word document, but I encourage you to post your project check-ins to the class site.* Doing so facilitates the feedback loop and also allows you to get a sense of how other groups are tackling similar or related issues.
Project Overview
- Briefly describe your tentative ideas for the content of your final project: (I.e. a abstract for a conference paper; general summary of the mock narrative or an outline for the arch of the podcast interview).
- Describe the two primary reasons motivating your interest in the above content.
Central Question & Objectives
- What key idea, question, tension, and/or theme from the course does your group wish to explore in this final project?
- What about this idea, question, tension, and/or theme interests your group? Why will it be your focus?
- Identify two subsidiary ideas, questions, tensions, and/or themes within that key idea, question, tension, and/or theme that you wish to engage in particular?
Course Engagement
- What texts from the syllabus do you plan to center the project around?
- What in particular do you plan to examine in this text? And why?
- How does your intended examination of this particular text relate to one or more of the key ideas, questions, tensions, and/or themes explored in this course?
- How does centering this text especially help you meet the goals you describe in the first section?
Medium / Form / Genre
- What medium / form will you employ to explore these texts?
- Please describe the use(s) for which this medium / form is most typically employed (i.e. scholarly, pedagogical, political, historical, artistic, etc.).
- Why have you chosen to use this particular form / medium?
- How does this medium/ form (as opposed to other forms) aid your goals? Please spend time speculation on how an alternative form / medium might affect your goals differently.
- Describe the more particular formal / generic conventions you imagine employing (e.g. Persuasive Essay based on close reading or a lesson plan for a proposed course as opposed to a lesson plan for next week’s class).
- How do you imagine the formal / generic conventions you use will aid your above-stated goals (as opposed to other formal /generic conventions)? Please spend time speculating the possible affects of using other generic conventions.
Background & Research
- What, if any, background information might you need to complete your project?
- What type of source materials might you need to consult in order to complete your project?
- What, if any, background information will you need to provide in order for your audience to engage your project fully?
- What sources have you consulted at this point in the project?
Audience
- Who do you imagine to be your audience (other than the professor)?
- Why have you selected this particular audience?
- What does this particular audience need in order to hear you and appreciate what you’re trying to communicate?
- How do your choice of medium / form / genre likely to resonate with this audience?
- What, if any, supplemental source material will your audience need in order to engage your project fully?
- What, if any, prerequisite supplies, readings, skills, or activities will your audience need in order to fully participate in your project?
Proposed Timeline & Methods
- Briefly describe your tentative ideas for the overarching form and content of your final project: (I.e. a general summary of the mock narrative or an outline for the arch of the podcast interview).Briefly describe how you plan to realize this project.
- Indicate at least 6 key steps necessary to complete this project.
- List 3 major production dates (deadlines) BEFORE Thanksgiving.
- Identify space, technology, and/or material resources you may need.
QUESTIONS
- List two questions that YOU need to answer at this point in order to proceed with this project?
- What questions do you have FOR ME at this point about the assignment in general and/or your project ideas in particular?