English 875: Digital Ethics (Fall 2020)
Contributing to a Kairotic Moment (Spring 2018)
Community Project Assignment (for Grant Writing/Public Writing courses)
This is an assignment that asks students to work in groups on behalf of an outside organization. In the sample assignment below, students worked with the Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists, a local nonprofit, to examine and interpret a problem the organization was facing. Each group wrote a proposal and gave a presentation to the organization involved. Below is an assignment description for such a project. This project can be used in many writing courses, but I currently use it in my public writing courses.
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Twitter Assignment
This assignment is something I've used in all my upper division writing classes. Typically, this assignment is connected to a larger project or assignment, though on occasion I've asked students simply to create a professional profile via Twitter and connect it to their professional blog and other professional social media sites I ask them to create. The assignment below is taken from my English 459 Writing Grants and Proposals class, so the assignment as a whole is geared toward the non-profit sector and organizations the student may have an interest in for the final project.
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Remix Assignment
This is an assignment I have taught in place of a lengthier final project in my English 358 Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences class, though it would also be useful to teach in any writing class, particularly writing classes which are genre-based. The goals of the assignment are to teach students how altering genre can change the message of a project. Students compose a proposal for their project, along with turning in a draft of a rubric, which we discuss during a student-teacher conference. Later, students complete the project they proposed along with submitting a finalized rubric to me for grading.
From this assignment, students have created videos, websites, blogs, and other media and projects from typical research-style essays and projects they have created in previous classes or earlier in the semester within the class I taught.
From this assignment, students have created videos, websites, blogs, and other media and projects from typical research-style essays and projects they have created in previous classes or earlier in the semester within the class I taught.
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