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As your central project for PWR2, you will complete a research project on a topic related to digital culture, technology, and/or electronic rhetoric. The exact focus of your topic is your choice, subject to instructor approval. You should research this project using a variety of sources, including the internet, the library (both Socrates and the databases), and (where appropriate) data collected through fieldwork, surveys, and interviews: your bibliography for this project should contain no fewer than 10 sources -- balanced between both primary and secondary sources. Please note: you must have a minimum of 8 sources that you found on your own (i.e. that weren't linked through the class links page or that weren't part of the class readings). The project itself is composed of many different stages of research and presentation - culminating in a complex research hypertext and a multimedia research project presentation. The purpose of the project is to encourage you to refine your researching and writing skills, and to encourage you to experiment with creating rhetorically effective texts across different media. The first stage in the project involves, necessarily, deciding on your topic. To brainstorm ideas, flip through Cyberreader, look at the topic headings on the course schedule, search "digital culture" or "e-rhetoric" on-line, talk to friends, read the technology section of the Daily or the national newspaper of your choice, or look at the brainstorming notes from discussions during week two with Section 2 and Section 5. The best topics will be one that you connect with personally or that you feel passionately about, and about which you feel you can argue a position.
Questions about this assignment? E-mail me or bring them up in class. |
