Capstone assignment: final project, aka one more remix

read: McCloud, Chapter 7 "The Six Steps"

1. Idea/ Purpose : What is the topic of your final project? From this topic, formulate the most important (could be a practical question or set of questions, could be ethical) question you expect your readers need answered. What is your purpose in directing attention to this issue or idea?

2. Form : Think about the media and research methods you will mix: film clips and sounds from the world wide web and beyond? A poster, story board, a collage, or a 'zine of some sort? A building, a garden, an event? To connect the different media you use, you will need to compose more text, and perhaps even conduct more research (interviews, library research). Your final product can emphasize one form, but your process can partake of diverse media forms.

3. Idiom and Audience : always, always, always consider your audience. Each member of each group will treat your subject from a certain perspective. Will you treat your audience and your topic as technician might? Like an artist or musician? Like an athlete? Like an single parent? An anthropologist? An employee at large firm? More important is how the group as a whole treats the topic and audience? What is your group's collective ethos? Each project will be different, because each will be tuned to a different audience and scenario.

4. Rhetorical process and re-purposing of blog, unit, and group assignments : How will you select and align the pieces of the project? Experiment with transitions and arrangement strategies via argumentative technique (definition, evaluation, cause, analogy, idiom translation, prolepsis, prolepsis, and more prolepsis)--you may be surprised at what you can render. Deploy technical editing skills (grammar, syntax, drawing/drafting, audio or video work).

5. Structure: what is the overall structure of your project? How and in what sequence is it to be read, seen, heard, and experienced?

6. surface: a) formatting; MLA/APA/Chicago style, and b) ratio of attention-grabbing media to deep-attention sections (extended prose sections)