Your Options:
- Compose a 750-1000 word persuasive essay based on the issue and the research you just completed for your Contextual Analysis Project
- Compose a 750-1000 word persuasive essay based on an issue that demonstrably & directly affects you, and for which you want to do new research
- “Are Texts That Display Differently Different Texts? The Role of the Device— Cell, Kindle, Tablet, Laptop, Paper—in the Making of Meaning.” Write a 750-1000 word process description of reading the same NYT article 3-4 times, on 3-4 different platforms — print, PDF, phone, laptop — with an eye toward this question: does the device contribute to the meaning of the text? (Will include screen captures, annotations, etc.; visually, it might look something like this, in my abbreviated version: http://composing.org/wrd104sq2014/nyt-print-digital/ )
Audience specific:
- Readers in an academic discipline? Students and faculty in History, for example … or in Economics, or Sociology, or Theatre?
- DePaul students?
- DePaul student Republicans?
- DePaul student Democrats?
- NYT Op-Ed readers?
- Your congressperson?
- Fr. Holtschneider?
- For the reading process description, your audience can be us — the people in your class; assume that we are smart & curious.