DUE SEP 25 SUNDAY MIDNIGHT: narrative drafts due, with cover page

DUE OCT 22

Some proposal ideas:

Tips

Controversial Guest Speakers at State Universities: Who decides?

Eminent Domain: Who Benefits?

Illegal Aliens: Let them stay or move them out?

Separation of Church & State: Still needed or outdated?

Reinstate the draft during this War on Terror era?

United Nations: Irrelevant or worth our money?

As gas prices rise, are we doing enough to find alternative fuel sources?

Religion and Education: together or separated?

Violence in schools: what needs to be done? (Jena 6)

Health care: Socialize or privatize?

Racial Profiling: necessity or abuse?

School Voucher Programs: freedom of choice or disaster in disguise?

1. Idea/ Purpose : What is the topic of your project? Mandatory Human Growth Hormone (Steroid) testing for Professional Baseball players.

From this topic, formulate the most important and practical question or set of questions you expect your readers need answered.

What is your purpose in writing about this issue or problem? There is no testing and it is needed.

2. Form : Think about the media and research methods you will mix: film clips and sounds from the world wide web and beyond? Of course. A poster, story board, or presentation of some sort? Perhaps. Text documents, interviews, field research....be creative with this one, use the wiki's flexibility for all it's worth. Your final project should combine various forms.

3. Idiom and Audience : MLBPA: Major League Baseball Players Association.

At the same time, consider your audience – will you deal with your subject as a technician might? Like an artist? Like an athlete? Like an entrepreneur? A scholar? An employee at large firm? Each project will be different, because each will be tuned to a different scenario.

4. Rhetorical process and unit assignments : How will you, as a group, divide the tasks? How will you plan your time? Include a timeline in your proposal. How will you align the pieces of the project? How do you anticipate that you will parse the process and divide the work? You can break down the process many different ways, and each project will surely end up diverging from the provisional memo produced for this deadline. Still, consider what you'll need to do in any case: experiments with transitions and arrangement strategies via argumentative technique (definition, evaluation, cause, analogy, idiom translation, prolepsis, prolepsis, and more prolepsis), deployment of technical editing skills (grammar, syntax, drawing/drafting, audio or video work). Most importantly, you'll establish the format and genre your 2 major unit assignments, which will comprise the spine of your final project. What kind of writing do you want to learn more about? Here's your chance to customize your 3250 experience.

5. Exportable versions: you will prepare 2 versions of each major unit assignment: wiki, and print. Also, plan for rendering an abstract, or some sort of serial (linear) description, narrative, or argument detailing your overall project in a .pdf file. Try and tune your document to the needs and strictures of a particular discourse community or even a particular journal.