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Nancy Armstrong-Sanchez ENG 350
Assignment 4: Multi-Modal Digital Genre Transformation
Tell the story in a new way.
Polished Draft Due on Thursday, April 18 (by 11:59pm PST)
TL;DR: transform the piece you analyzed in Assignment 2into a new digital genre.
Multi-Modal Context:
“Instead of a typical written research paper, multimodal projects include multiple modes for communicating your thesis, ideas, and research findings. This can include any combination of text and: images, video or animation, sound or audio.” (DH LibGuide)
Digital Context:
From websites to magazines, YouTube to Facebook, e-portfolios to mashups, digital arguments are often more popular, more accessible, and more widespread than arguments made with words alone. Not only do we engage with digital texts in our daily lives, but they are increasingly more common, if not expected, in the professional arena.
Preparation:
Throughout our course, we have explored the topics of Discourse Communities and Code Switching by examining a variety of pieces. Each piece told the story of language, yet each was set up slightly differently, targeting different audiences, using different rhetorical appeals, employing different tones, etc. Collectively, these works have spanned many different genres.
We have already examined the following:
o Jamila Lyiscott’s Three Ways to Speak English – TED Talk, spoken work poetry
o Mike Mena’s John Baugh &”Linguistic Profiling” – short, informative video( I would like this assignment to focus on this piece )
o Paredes’ Both Worlds – art piece
o Thompson’s “Five Reasons People Code-Switch” – short, informative essay
o Pero Like Code Switching at Work – short, comical video
Assign 4 Goal/Prompt: Tell the story in a new way. Your goal is to transform the piece you analyzed in Assignment 2 bytranslating it into a new digital genre.
Some ideas to help get you started…
• For Assign 2, did you explore a blog that traced the history of discourse communities among a traditionally marginalized group? Consider turning it into a Digital Archive that might appeal to the archivists at our campus library.
• For Assign 2, did you find a great Tik Tok on the importance of Codeswitching? Consider turning it into an educational PowerPoint aimed at teachers who are working with young bilingual children.
• For Assign 3, did you read an awesome research article demonstrating the link between linguistic bias and systemic oppression? Consider turning it into a podcast aimed at STEM hiring committees.
Pro Tip: You can also choose to “translate” an entirely new piece. Maybe another piece that interested you during your prep for Assign 2 and/or Assign 3? Maybe one of our course materials? Maybe an entirely new piece that you have recently come across?
This Assignment will have 2 parts:
1. PART 1: Your New Creation:
• See this project as an opportunity to create modes of communication that go beyond the printed word. For example, your digital project might take the form of ameme/GIF, video, podcast, website, mashup, a Prezi, or even a poem.
• SAMPLES: For a little help with the creative aspect,please see the Samples in the “Writer’s Corner” of Week 11 & 12.
NOTE: These samples are not specifically “Genre Transformation” products. Rather, each of these digital pieces is intended to help you generate ideas. Review them to see if they inspire ideas…😊 Ultimately, though, you are welcomed to go in the direction that works for you and you are also welcome to blend strategies.
2. PART 2: Rhetorical Response: Mini-Essay: To accompany your genre transformation work, submit a 400-600 wordrhetorical response essay in which you compare the original piece to your new creation. As you do so, be sure toexplain how you translated the piece from Assign 2 into a new medium and what you learned in the process.
Possible Outline/Key Components of your mini-essay:
I. Introduction:
• Hook: brief overview of the topic (i.e. language and discourse communities, etc.)
• Context: give an overview of the piece you have chosen to transform. If this is the same piece you used for Assign 2, consider discussing your goals/purpose, examples, reflections, etc. on the moves analysis you completed for that essay.
• Thesis: inform the reader of your goal/purpose for your NEW piece. Also, consider a quick overview of how/why you selected this piece for genre transformation and what you hope the reader/viewer will take away from your transformation work.
II. Body:
• Compare the original piece to your new creation.Explain in detail the choices you made to transform the piece from Assign 2 into a new genre.
• Explain why you chose the particular program, mode, or design for your remediation. In other words, why did you choose a PowerPoint, Tik Tok, etc.?
• If relevant, explain any shifts in the target audience, the use of rhetorical appeals, the implementation of tone, etc.
• If relevant, in what ways did the argument change as you transformed the piece?
III. Conclusion/Synthesis:
• What did you learn (or not learn) from this project that might transfer to a future class or writing experience?
• Describe what you learned about the genre and rhetorical situation (issues of audience—including location—form, visual appeals, etc.) and new media from making these changes.
