assignments ENGL202 Business Writing: Final Project
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Overview. This semester you've had the opportunity to think a lot about audience as it relates to content. You've also had the opportunity to write in many genre, and to consider the ways different genre require you to write in different ways. For the final project of this semester, you want to bring all of this thinking together to produce useful materials for a local organization. What sort of useful materials? Well, you will need to decide what that is.
Your final project, this final project, should reflect the needs of the client and the requirements of the class.
Details. This final project has the least number of guidelines because it is the place for me to see what all you have learned over the course of the semester. I will consider the following as I assess your materials:
1. Do the materials you produce seem to be serve the needs of the client? This does not necessarily mean only doing what the client said to do, but, rather, that the materials you produce reflect what the client needs but uses your expertise to create what they really need.
2. Do the materials reflect an understanding of the audience the client is trying to reach? The client is a kind of audience, but the people you really want to reach are the people the clients really need to reach. We will work on an audience analysis in class for these purposes.
3. Is the content available to the audience in formats and genres that will suit their needs? We've been considering genre all semester long, but you've never had to think about what genre fits what need for what audience. That is what is at stake here.
INCLUDED IN YOUR FINAL PORTFOLIO WITH THE FORMAL MATERIALS: Include with your materials in your final portfolio a two page, typed, double-spaced reflection on your work for the final project. Answer the three questions listed above, explaining to me in what ways you believe your materials fulfill the requirements of the assignment/client and in what ways you think perhaps it does not. Include, also, your particular role in completing the project. Give a shout out to those members of your group that did a really superlative job in completing the project.
OTHER THINGS.
HOW I WILL ASSESS YOUR FINAL PROJECT
Your final project is the main component of your final portfolio, and the only new work that will appear in it. As part of your final portfolio it accounts for 20% of your final grade.
To earn a "B" for this portion of your final portfolio, you must:
To earn an "A" for this portion of your final portfolio, you must:
To earn a "C" for this portion of your final portfolio, you must:
Failure to earn a "C" grade for this portion of your final portfolio will mean that you've failed the 20% of your final grade that the final portfolio counts for (see the complete details on the final portfolio requirements here).
Your final project, this final project, should reflect the needs of the client and the requirements of the class.
Details. This final project has the least number of guidelines because it is the place for me to see what all you have learned over the course of the semester. I will consider the following as I assess your materials:
1. Do the materials you produce seem to be serve the needs of the client? This does not necessarily mean only doing what the client said to do, but, rather, that the materials you produce reflect what the client needs but uses your expertise to create what they really need.
2. Do the materials reflect an understanding of the audience the client is trying to reach? The client is a kind of audience, but the people you really want to reach are the people the clients really need to reach. We will work on an audience analysis in class for these purposes.
3. Is the content available to the audience in formats and genres that will suit their needs? We've been considering genre all semester long, but you've never had to think about what genre fits what need for what audience. That is what is at stake here.
INCLUDED IN YOUR FINAL PORTFOLIO WITH THE FORMAL MATERIALS: Include with your materials in your final portfolio a two page, typed, double-spaced reflection on your work for the final project. Answer the three questions listed above, explaining to me in what ways you believe your materials fulfill the requirements of the assignment/client and in what ways you think perhaps it does not. Include, also, your particular role in completing the project. Give a shout out to those members of your group that did a really superlative job in completing the project.
OTHER THINGS.
- You'll have some time to talk to get as much information as possible from them. We will work as a class to try to put together an audience profile (not a client profile). You'll be held to that profile when I evaluate this project.
- You will work in your groups to put the materials together.
- As per usual, we will workshop some of the materials in class.
- You will present your final project to the clients in our class during the exam period. There input will be considered in your final evaluation.
- Those groups whose materials are selected by the client will be able to put this on their resume if they desire.
HOW I WILL ASSESS YOUR FINAL PROJECT
Your final project is the main component of your final portfolio, and the only new work that will appear in it. As part of your final portfolio it accounts for 20% of your final grade.
To earn a "B" for this portion of your final portfolio, you must:
- Have material to be workshopped on 30 April 2018.
- Have a completed project to be shown to the client on 7 May 2018 (our final exam) in a presentation to the client.
- Complete the two-page reflection letter on the final project for inclusion in the final portfolio.
To earn an "A" for this portion of your final portfolio, you must:
- Complete all of the requirements for the "B" grade
- Produce materials for the client that reflect the thinking we've been doing about design, purpose, argument, organization, and, of course audience, that have been the focus of our work this semester.
- Earn the praise of the client.
To earn a "C" for this portion of your final portfolio, you must:
- Have a completed project to be shown to the client on 7 May 2018 (our final exam) in a presentation to the client.
- Complete the two-page reflection letter on the final project for inclusion in the final portfolio.
Failure to earn a "C" grade for this portion of your final portfolio will mean that you've failed the 20% of your final grade that the final portfolio counts for (see the complete details on the final portfolio requirements here).