1. ENGL 102-07
Williamson
Project Outline
Overview:
For this project, we are building on the work we have done in class to produce a multimodal
project that rhetorically informs and persuades your audience about the ways in which an
environment from your past has influenced your thoughts and actions. You will select one text
from your previous analyses (in any modality) and construct an essay rough draft and then a final
project that utilizes your written text and at least 1 other modality to support the focus of your
project.
Requirements for Constructing Your Project
1. Select an example from the previous analyses that has importance to you, especially one
that you feel comfortable writing about. You will first explore the background of your text
with examining what it is and how it was constructed. In addition, you should perform
preliminary research by analyzing how other people have connected to and been
influenced by this text (or similar texts). You may approach this by examining
perspectives in magazines, online articles, journals, and through reviews. By doing this,
you will able to provide the necessary background and context of your text for your
reader. In addition, you will be able to establish how others have interpreted and
interacted with this text so that you may transition into your own interpretation, analysis,
and experiences with your text.
2. After establishing the context of your chosen text, you will perform a rhetorical analysis in
which you will explore what about this text is persuasive/influential and why with specific
examples and explanations. For this, you will want to take note of what about your text is
the most influential in terms of its rhetoric and appeal. Your goal is to explain what in this
text is influential and why so that your reader has concrete examples of how this text has
influenced the way you think and act.
3. Your next step is to document and narrate your personal experiences that have shaped
the way you think and act that are relevant to the text you have that you have chosen.
Your goal for this narrative is to “show” your reader your own personal context of how
you have come to think and act the way you do through your experiences.
4. The last step of your project is to synthesize narrative and rhetorical analysis by
establishing concrete connections between the ways in which your experiences and text
have shaped the way you think and act. This will function as evidence and justification to
show your reader exactly how your text and experiences have shaped the way you think
and act.
*Your rough draft should fall within the range of 4.5-7 double-spaced pages*
Requirements for Your Multimodal Component:
In addition to the written portion of your project, you will need to choose at least one other
modalities to incorporate into the final draft of project. The haptic, visual, and auditory
modalities can be used to facilitate and support the focus and purpose of your project
rhetorically. By using one of these other modalities, you will complement and complicate the
ideas you present through your writing in a way that captures a more complete view of the way
in which you think and act based on the influences of your text and personal experiences.
