The project assignment is on the attached file and the original project is on the other file.

Writing Project 4: Remediation Project

Revision Plan Due: 11/22

Revision Draft Due: 12/6

Cover Letter Draft Due: 12/9

Final Due: 12/11

For this assignment, you have the option of remediating Writing Project 1 or 2. To succeed, remediations must go beyond transferring your text to a different medium or modality. As a form of revision, you should make a concerted effort to “re-see” your project in a new context by transforming it to have a new genre, audience, or modality. The emphasis, in other words, will be on how you translate your large-scale or global composition choices in new rhetorical situations. You will also demonstrate your intent and understanding of this transformation through a revision plan and cover letter.

While the emphasis is on how you adjust your previous project to a new rhetorical situation, you are expected to:

• Assess and revise all aspects of the project, including organization, coherence, and style.

• Use previous comments on the project as a guide for changes in your remediation.

• Move beyond those comments to apply your own revisions and refinements. Instead, use the comments as a guide to explore your own methods for improving the overall project.

In keeping with the English 101 goal for students to “revise to improve their own writing” and to “critique their own writing and revise to improve global qualities (focus, development, organization) as well as local qualities (style, usage), this assignment will enable you to revisit a previous assignment to strengthen your response.

The decision is yours, of course, but here are some possibilities to consider:

If you choose your literacy narrative, you might revise it for effectiveness and turn it into a podcast, an opinion piece on literacy and community, a song, or an interactive website. If you choose your rhetorical analysis, you might transform it into a review or a “How-To Guide” for writing in the genre of text you analyzed. Regardless of your choice, remember that you are revising your own previous work. You are not remediating the text that you analyzed but your analysis itself.

In one complete portfolio, you will in the following components as a Word Document or PDF (and an appropriate format for multimodal remediations):

1. A Revision Plan

The 350-500 word revision plan will outline what you intend to do and your reasons behind those changes. It should explain which of your previous projects you want to transform, why you want to transform it, the new genre you plan to use, the things you will need to consider/develop/revise to accomplish your goal, and why you think your choice of project will be successful. You will also need to explain what you own stake is in the project – how is it relevant to you?

Your revision plan should answer the following:

• What real-world purpose are you hoping to accomplish?

• What new genre/medium will you use? What are the conventions of that genre/medium that you’ll need to consider?

• How will converting your original essay to a new format change it?

• Who do you envision as the audience for the new project?

Be as specific as possible. Point out exactly which parts of your original project you plan to change and how you plan to change them. You should also note which parts of your original project you will keep.

1. Original Project

This is where you will place a copy of your original project (Writing Project 1 or 2). Your remediated project must be accompanied by the original draft in the portfolio to receive full credit.

1. A Transformed Paper/Project, alongside a copy of the original project.

Your revised paper or project will be based on one of your previous projects for this class. The goal of the revision is to transform that project into a new genre. You are free to choose any project to revise but be aware: you must envision and articulate a specific audience whom you are addressing and a specific purpose you are seeking to accomplish. While the overall message, content, and topic will remain the same, you may choose to shift to a new audience, context, and/or means of communication (mode, medium, genre, circulation).

1. A Cover Letter

The 500-word minimum (typed, double-spaced) letter, discussing the choices that you made while revising and recreating your original text, including the problems/issues you tried to address. In other words, it should address how and why you transformed your original work into its new genre, what you are attempting to accomplish with your new work, the audience you envision yourself addressing, and the ways your new piece works rhetorically to accomplish your purpose. Try to answer these questions:

• What significant changes did you make to the original text? Why? What effect do you think these changes had on your project, overall?

• How did any changes in the rhetorical situation (audience, context, mode, medium, genre) lead to changes in content, format, organization, style, tone, diction, etc.?

• How do the changes made reflect the rhetorical situation?

• What revisions do you feel were most successful/effective, improving the project?

• What would you have like to improve but weren’t able to? Why weren’t you able to make those changes?

• What was the most important think you learned from this unit?

• What did you learn in this unit that you would like to apply to future writing situations, whether that is inside or outside of class?

• The extent to which you transformed the original project, with a change to an element or elements of the rhetorical situation (purpose, audience, genre, medium, mode).

• The effectiveness or overall quality of your project (its focus, development, organization, and style).

• The quality of your Cover Letter reflecting on the changes, why you made the changes you did, and the effect of the changes.

• The organization and completeness of your portfolio (revision plan, original project, remediated project, cover letter).

Upload your report to Canvas as a Word document or PDF file. Use a standard 12-point font (Times New Roman or Arial), double spacing, and one-inch margins. Include an MLA heading listing your full name, your instructor’s name, the class, and the date. Papers not written in proper MLA, that are not long enough, or that do not accurately interact with the assignment will receive an automatic D for their grade. Any papers that include cheats to lengthen the paper (such as writing in white ink at the bottom to increase word count) will automatically result in an F. Any instances of plagiarism will automatically result in a zero. If a grade deserves less than what is listed here, it will receive the lower grade.

All major projects submitted to me must be in either word or pdf format. I do not accept share point, notes, google drive submissions, etc. Any submission not in word or pdf format will automatically receive a zero. If you do not own Microsoft Word, I will be more than happy to show you where to download it for free through KU.