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Final Project Proposal Memo

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write: a brief proposal in a memo format

read: Chapter 7 in McCloud

 

 

1. Idea/ Purpose : What is the topic of your final project? From this topic, formulate the most important (could be a practical question or set of questions, could be ethical) question you expect your readers need answered. What is your purpose in directing attention to this issue or idea?

 

 

2. Form : Think about the media and research methods you will mix: film clips, graphics, and sounds from the world wide web (and beyond)? A poster, story board, a collage, or a 'zine/pamphlet of some sort? A recommendation report stemming from your definition work, your causal argument, or your evaluation piece? A literature review that seeks to persuade a specific audience about a particular trend or phenomena in serious gaming, games in health, research, politics, advertisting, or gaming culture? A comic, a garden, an event? To connect the different media you use, you will need to compose more text, and perhaps even conduct more research (interviews, observations, library and internet research). Your final product can emphasize one form, but your process can partake of diverse media forms.

 

3. Idiom and Audience : always, always, always consider your audience. Each member of each group will treat your subject from a certain perspective. Will you treat your audience and your topic as technician might? Like an artist or musician? Like an athlete? Like an single parent? An anthropologist? An employee at large firm? A concerned activist seeking reform in a specific field? More important is you treats the topic and audience. What is your ethos? The idiom (culture of language) in each project will be different, because each will be tuned to a different audience and scenario.

 

4. Secondary Investigator role: How will you help select and align the pieces of a peer project (or projects)? Be prepared to consult on important rhetorical decisions ranging from the appropriateness of genre/conventions to in-text transitions and arrangement strategies. Deploy argumentative technique (definition, evaluation, cause, analogy, idiom translation, prolepsis, prolepsis, and more prolepsis) on a peer's project--you may be surprised at what you can render. You can provide technical editing skills (grammar, syntax, drawing/drafting, audio or video work). How much of your overall final project effort would you like to allocate to secondary investigator work?

 

5. Structure: what is the overall structure of your project? How and in what sequence is it to be read, seen, heard, and experienced?

 

6. Surface: a) formatting; MLA/APA/Chicago style for research papers, and b) ratio of attention-grabbing media to deep-attention sections (extended prose sections) for webtexts

 

7. Timeline: list/grid/chart/spreadsheet weekly outcomes and deliverables (process, rough drafts, progress reports).

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