M Oct 18 - Analysis/Reflection due (post in your Forum folder)

Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length, containing an introduction, a main body, and a conclusion.

What is the assignment?

So far, you have written a formal proposal and then transformed it into an oral presentation and then a hypertext document. For this assignment, you will write a short 2-3 page analysis/reflection in which you discuss the process of translating this text into these different media.

Why are we doing this?

PWR2 as a course is concerned with the way in which you apply strategies of argumentation and the principles of rhetoric within different medium. Since you have just completed the first stage in this process, it will be helpful to you to assess how you changed your writing strategies and style to accomodate the different forms in which you presented your argument. In addition, reflection on the translation at this stage in the quarter will help you troubleshoot your needs for similar work later in the quarter.

What this essay contain?

This essay should be comprised of two basic components or sections: an analysis section and a reflection section.

• The Analysis section: In this section, you should summarize and analyze the rhetorical principles and strategies you observed in the oral and electronic media you worked with and discuss the ways in which you adapted your proposal specifically to accommodate the different rhetorical demands of these genres. This is the rhetorical analysis section of your essay.
• The Reflection section: In this section, you should reflect on your experience in adapting your proposal to these different forms. How successful was it? How difficult? What surprised you? What was easier than you imagined? As a key part of this section, you need to troubleshoot your use of these media in the future; that is, what have you learned about your own capabilities and the limitations of your knowledge/expertise that you can work on in creating another oral presentation and another hypertext later in the quarter?

You may organize your essay in whatever way best suits your rhetorical purpose -- for instance, you may choose to have one large section on Analysis (in which you deal with the oral and the hypertext) and then another larger section on Reflection (in which you again deal with the oral and the hypertext) or you might decide to have one section on the Oral Proposal Presentation (in which you deal with the Analysis and then the Reflection) and then another section on the Hypertext Proposal (in which you deal with the Analysis and the Reflection). The choice is yours; however, remember you need both an introduction and a conclusion as an overarching frame to these sections.

Feel free to e-mail me, IM me, or talk to me in class if you have any questions.