Final Project

The Final Project will be a poster presentation that asks you to demonstrate an understanding of course content from both 1170 and 1181 in the form of an "Unrevision". You use your Project 1 essay for this project. After you have completed your 1181 revision, you will "unrevise" this paper for your 1170 project. The goal is to make the paper as ineffective as possible by using your understanding of the course concepts. The unrevised paper will be presented on a poster board along with the fully revised 1181 draft. 

Process Steps

1. Complete the revision for ENGL 1181 first, so that you have the final version of the paper to start with. 

2. Use the concepts from the class to unrevise the paper. See below for guildelines on the unrevision. 

3. Display the unrevised paper along side the final revised version (from ENGL 1181) of the paper on a poster board or tri-fold board. 

4. Annotate your unrevised paper to show where you used the various class concepts to unrevise the draft.

Guidelines 

1. The unrevised paper must still be roughly the same length as the original (i.e. don't unrevise by deleting giant chunks of the paper). 

2. The unrevised paper must still be mostly readable so that the rhetorical moves can still be seen. 

   1. • For example, the font cannot be completely illegible and the paper still needs to be written in English. 

3.   The unrevision must be intentional and demonstrate concepts that were learned in ENGL 1170 and 1181. 

4. The unrevision must focus on some high and middle-order concerns. You may also introduce later-order concerns, but the bulk of the unrevision should be focused on bigger-picture issues, such as organization, design, flow, paragraphing, etc. 

5. Keep track of the changes you are making (and why you are making them) so that you can add the annotations on the presentation. 

6. The poster can be a tri-fold board or a regular poster that can be taped to the wall. If you need more than one poster, that's also fine. 

7. The annotations should explain one of the unrevisions and connect to an example in the paper to demonstrate. You can use arrows, lines, color, highlighting or any other type of marking that works for the annotation. 

8. The annotations should also briefly explain the impact that specific unrevision is having on the paper. 

9. The poster presentation should demonstrate the visual rhetoric concepts from this class by being polished, readable, and well-designed.  Additionally, the information should be presented in a way that is clear and well-organized (i.e. it should not look as if it was thrown together the night before with little thought to the design or layout).

And finally, have fun with this! While you need to demonstrate an understanding of the course content through this project, you can have some fun with this project too. Be ridiculous and make your unrevision terrible. 

Rubric and Grading

Your Final Project must include:

• Your final revision of your Project 1 essay from ENGL 1181

• An unrevised draft of that same paper.

• Annotations to explain the unrevision and how that impacts the paper. 

See the Guidelines section above for additional specific requirements. 

Your Final Project will be graded on the following rubric:

5/5: The Final Project meets all requirements for this project. The unrevision includes a thoughtful and clearly intentional use of class concepts to make the paper ineffective. The annotations explain the concept used to unrevise the paper and the impact that choice of unrevision has on the readability or effectiveness of the paper. 

4/5: The final project meets all requirements for this project. It also mostly meets the requirements for a 5/5 paper, but it might not effectively explain the impact of the unrevision or it's not always clear how the unrevision connects to class concepts based on the annotations. Or the poster presentation does not display an understanding of visual rhetoric through its layout or design. 

3/5: The final project mostly meets the requirements but the guidelines are not effectively met. For example, the annotations are present but might not connect the unrevision to class concepts or medium to large sections of the paper appear to not be unrevised.

2/5: The final project is missing at least one of the requirements in the guidelines. For example, annotations are missing or do not demonstrate class concepts. Or the poster presentation does not display an understanding of visual rhetoric through its layout or design appears to have been put together hastily with little thought to the presentation. 

1/5: The final project has significant issues and is missing two or more of the requirements listed in the guidelines.  

0/5: The final project was not turned in.  

I will grade the presentations during class, and you will take your poster presentation home with you at the end of the class period. Since this is the last day of class, you must be in class that day to present. Late Final Projects will not be accepted except in cases of documentable emergencies.