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Graduate students will do an additional project of some sort that they construct in a manner that will advance their education and/or career. In most cases, this project will be a paper in print or electronic form because writing a reflective paper is the best preparation for your comprehensives. That said, a number of graduate students have negotiated an additional project rather than a paper, and I am open to such arguments as long as you can show me the value to your education of the project. Regardless, I expect all graduate projects to include a critical component that involves reading and reflecting on print or electronic sources. To ensure that you get credit for your reading, include a "Sources Consulted" section in addition to a "References" section in the final project.

Deadlines

• I would like a proposal (e-mail is fine) about your topic by Week 10.
• I would like a draft by week 14. (Drafts are very important in this class. Do not neglect this step!)
• I would like the final draft by the end of finals week.

General Notes
Thus if you are a master's student who has not yet written his or her comps, you should think in terms of some sort of a critical paper which explores in details some aspect of what we have done in class. Usually this means exploring a critical/theoretical hypertext issue or about the application of hypertext in some area. Students have also done critical surveys of the rhetoric of a particular group of web sites. I am open to a variety of topics and a variety of forms. About 40% of past graduate students have written paper-based papers, and 60% web-based papers/projects.

If you are not an English Graduate student, or you have completed your comps. We can negotiate an alternative web-based project for this requirement. I am open to negotiate other forms of the project. I have had some students do an additional web project or an additional component of a very ambitious project because they have needed to build their portfolio. I have had other students do drafts of their thesis proposal in class (or write papers that became thesis proposals). I am open to such projects as well as other projects, not described here, as long as you can make an argument about how the project would advance your career.

I am less interested in the form or topic of the paper and more interested that it involves careful, reflective thinking, and additional bibliographic work beyond the readings that we have done in class.

As you browse my topics, you will find that many people have combined their final project with a graduate paper, often writing a critical/reflective introduction that contextualizes the project (see The Alpha Book) or tackling a large critical project that can combine both (see Web Design). Any combination project must have a critical/reflective component and a bibliography.

Past Projects (in no particular order, print and electronic)

"There we meet minds: Authorial Intrusion in afternoon" by Jim Callahan. A print paper, done in PageMaker, about the role of the author in the classic hyperfiction, afternoon.

"The Graphical Rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh sites" by Bill Suttie. Done in PageMaker in 11x17 format.

"A comparison of writing in web-based journals to writing in print based journals" By Justine Wogsland. Print.

"Assessing the WWW as a Resource for the Teaching of English" Mike Riley did a first draft of his thesis proposal as his paper and then created a site evaluating English Ed web sites

"Rhizomatic/Scharfmorphous: Kenny Scharf's (Outer/Inner) Space." Greg Bowen of the University Gallery started this project as his graduate paper and then expanded it into a Master's thesis.

"The Electronic Resume." by Harold Kemp. My first electronic paper. It shows.

"Literary E-zines: A Hypertext" by Greg Maier. An exploration of the genre of online small press publications circa 1996.

"Virtual Spouse" by Sam Racine. Sam did a critical/reflective exploration of her virtual spouse project, embedding the paper within the site.

Tristram Shandy in Hypertext by DR Hammotree. This was a combination final project/graduate paper.

Web Design by Jiang-ping Fan Another combo project. Such project must include a significant reflective, critical component and a bibliography.

The Alpha Book by Petros Panaou The paper is in the introduction to this mini alphabet book.

A Resource Guide to Online Training by Jena VanDyne This site includes a critical examination of the state of online training.

Repurposing or Reinventing: The Battle in E-Publishing by Holly Smith. Check out the section on Kinetic Poetry.

"Censorship on the Web" by Sue Larkin. A examination of how schools and libraries are coping with the censorship issues which the web raises.

"The Importance of Viewing Writing as Interactive:Publishing Student Work on the Web" by Julie Fraser a critical examination of different ways of theorizing student publishing on the web.

"Reflections" by Susan Antlitz. All three of the projects in this portfolio would have qualified as a graduate student paper.

"Using Computer Games to Teach Writing" Zoey Jackson (print). Zoey presented this paper at Computers and Writing in the spring of 2002.

"English 101 as a Paperless Classroom" by Kymber Berson

"Paper vs. Online Newsletters" by Cassie Hart

MEME (Marriage in Early Modern English) by Tracy Tiritilli

"Experience Design" by Tim Mills. An exploration of the age old conflict between usability and design.

"Internet Privacy, Security, the Cookie Monster, and Social Mistakes" by Tracy Rosenberger (print).

"Intranet Web Design" by Sarah Aubry (web site)

"Writing for the Web" by Jiang Liu. An exploration of the important of text on the web.

"Poetry on the Web" by Lisa Savage

This list leaves plenty of room for new projects. Surprise me!

English 351: "Hypertext"
Jim Kalmbach
421H stv 438-7648
kalmbach@ilstu.edu