This website is for my Academic Writing classes as support for their Digital Remediation Projects.
This project is the assignment of the course. This is a departure from the standard sequence that ends with the Final Position Paper. This semester, my students have turned their Classical Argument Papers, which are designed for an academic audience, into websites designed for a public audience.
In order to make this work, students have had to restructure and revise their arguments for the digital form, paying close attention to how they want their audience to move through their websites. Students are supplementing their remediated Classical Argument Papers with some of their other assignments, such as the Working Bibliography, the Stasis Grid, and the Rogerian Letter, which is a letter written to a resistant audience with the goal of finding common ground. Students are also adding sections that explain who they are, why they are interested in their topics, and why their websites exist.
The collection of websites that you will find when you select on the link for "student projects" represent a semester's worth of research on topics that range from media violence to educational technology, from NSA surveillance to GMOs, from reality television to eating disorders, from immigration to health care to education reform and beyond. These are all current, exigent topics that deserve more than soundbites or snap judgments. They warrant inquiry, research, analysis, and informed argumentation.
I encourage you to visit these websites and interact with them by responding to the polls and leaving comments. Thank you for your interest!
This project is the assignment of the course. This is a departure from the standard sequence that ends with the Final Position Paper. This semester, my students have turned their Classical Argument Papers, which are designed for an academic audience, into websites designed for a public audience.
In order to make this work, students have had to restructure and revise their arguments for the digital form, paying close attention to how they want their audience to move through their websites. Students are supplementing their remediated Classical Argument Papers with some of their other assignments, such as the Working Bibliography, the Stasis Grid, and the Rogerian Letter, which is a letter written to a resistant audience with the goal of finding common ground. Students are also adding sections that explain who they are, why they are interested in their topics, and why their websites exist.
The collection of websites that you will find when you select on the link for "student projects" represent a semester's worth of research on topics that range from media violence to educational technology, from NSA surveillance to GMOs, from reality television to eating disorders, from immigration to health care to education reform and beyond. These are all current, exigent topics that deserve more than soundbites or snap judgments. They warrant inquiry, research, analysis, and informed argumentation.
I encourage you to visit these websites and interact with them by responding to the polls and leaving comments. Thank you for your interest!