Assignments: Week 12

We only have a few weeks left in the semester, however, so we'll need to get started on our last assigment

The final assignment is an informative writing project.

• The draft of this assignment will be due on Tuesday April 22nd.

• The final version will be due on Friday May 2nd at 5:00 pm.

You can take two approaches to the project.

• 1. You can focus on the content and strategies involved in constructing one of the projects that we have been working on. For instance, if you struggled with the idea of presenting alternative perspectives in your persuasive projects, you can write about how you went about the task, what were the biggest hurdles and how did you get over them. The point is to make recommendations for future students.

• 2. You can focus on specific tasks that relate to one of the projects. For instance, if you collected lots of Web images for your creative writing project, you can detail the processes of searching, saving, editing, or linking. You might write an informative project about how you built your Web page. The point is to provide some clear instructions and tips for future students.

Both approaches can incorporate a narrative about your interactions and experiences. You don't have to convince anyone, just discuss your experience and explain and give recommendations.

The structure of these assignments is flexible. Think about the reader and the way you want him or her to interact with your information. Use backgrounds, images and navigational aids, but choose an overall structure that supports your project. When finished, you'll need to put the finished versions of the projects in the "infodrafts" folder in our teacher folder.

To get a sense of the kinds of projects that I have in mind, you can see the projects from previous semesters.

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