Looking at Your Community
Collaborative Project:
TITLE: This is the title of your paper. Try to make the title a preview of what the reader can expect from the paper. Be creative; audiences appreciate interesting titles.
PAGER ANALYSIS
PURPOSE: What are you trying to accomplish with this paper. Some taglines for the purpose my be:
- This paper's aim s to persuade . . .
- The purpose of this paper is to inform . . .
- I wrote this paper to describe . . .
- I hope that my audience responds to this paper by . . .
AUDIENCE: This is who the paper in intended for. In other words, whom do you expect to read this. This will shift for each assignment and can change from one revision to the next. Be clear about your intended audience because when I evaluate the essay, I will look at how well you seemed to address your audience. Again, you should not target your teacher as your audience (for most assignments). Set age limits on your audience as well. If you say you are targeting sports fans, what age? Do you mean young amateur athletes or older more mature players or recreational sports participants or NCAA college athletes. These are all slightly different groups that you would have to adjust your tone and style to.
GENRE: What style is this paper? For example, is it a Newsletter, a Narrative Essay, a Research Paper, a Business Letter, a PowerPoint Presentation, a Proposal, etc. Identify the style of the text.
ENVIRONMENT: This is where you anticipate the paper being published. Some of your papers may not have an intended forum, or you may choose to add a forum as you complete your revision. For example, if you chose to do your group project on Big Brothers/Big Sisters in McLean County, then the forum for your paper could be the organization's newsletter. If you wrote a story on the worst date you ever had, that could be submitted to special interest publications like Seventeen, Cosmo or GQ. Get the idea? Again, try to make this as clear and specific as possible.
REVISION:
- What is this primary paper's strength? Why?
- What is a primary weakness in this paper? Why?
- What challenges did you have completing the assignment?
- How did you use research in the composing of the text? What kinds of research did you choose to use? Was it difficult for you to find sources for this paper?
- Did you use any primary research in completing the paper? If so, what kinds? Why did you choose say an interview over a survey? Did you find this primary research to be useful?
- If you could GLOBALLY revise anything about this paper right now, before submission, what would it be and why?
Details of the Assignment:
This project should consider an ISSUE OF IMPORTANCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY. The paper should take a problem-solution approach, which aims to both inform your audience about the issue and persuade them to see your opinion and accept one of your
possible solutions.
Your group will need to decide together on a topic to consider. You will begin by brainstorming a list individually, and then developing a collective topic as a group. It gives you the opportunity to write with other individuals and to marry
your writing voices into one style. Additionally, it allows you to practice your skills of collaboration and cooperation in Composition. Finally, you will be required to practice many varied styles of writing including a proposal and research
document.