Project 4: Remix AssignmentDescriptionFor this project, you are assigned to do a remix. In other words, you should use cultural artifacts that already exist to craft an argument. These cultural artifacts might include any of the papers or projects you’ve previously written for this class, or they might include other artifacts to which you have access.

Your product might take the form of a video, a photo essay, a comic, a PowerPoint presentation, a Prezi, a webpage, a collage, a brochure, a poster, a song, an essay, or something else. Whatever form you choose to use, your project should have an argument, and it should include elements of critique and analysis. In other words, your project should have a central purpose, it should be responding to something--like an artifact, theme, or idea, and it should be original. This is your opportunity to be creative, so take advantage of it--don’t be afraid to take a risk!

Assignment GoalsThis assignment engages the following shared learning outcomes for First-Year Writing:

- Use writing for purposes of reflection, action, and participation in academic inquiry.

- Work within a repertoire of genres and modes to meet appropriate rhetorical purposes.

- Exercise a flexible repertoire of invention, arrangement, and revision strategies.

- Engage in reading for the purposes of reflection, critical analysis, decision-making, and inquiry.

- Read in ways that improve writing, especially by demonstrating an ability to analyze invention, arrangement, and revision strategies at work in a variety of texts.

- Demonstrate an understanding of reading as an epistemic and recursive meaning making process.

- Apply methods of inquiry and conventions to generate new understanding.

Reflection RequirementInclude a 1-2 page (single-spaced) cover letter that prepares your audience to enter into your text as an engaged reader. In this letter, you should reflect on your writing process, discussing your invention, arrangement, and revision decisions for this assignment. For example, you might consider:

- What are some of your writing strengths that came through for this assignment?

- What skills would you like to take away from this assignment?

- What are some things you learned/realized in doing this project that you would like to remember for future writing?

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- What did your writing process look like in creating this project?

- How did you select your topic or object of analysis?

- Why did you select the format/medium that you did?

- Why did you choose to arrange the project in the way that you did?

- Why did you choose to focus the project in the way that you did?

- Why did you take a particular stance in this paper?

- How did your writing process help you improve in areas listed on the shared learning outcomes for Tier I Writing (see syllabus)?

Note that a good cover letter will do more than simply describe what you did and when you did it; it will reflect on and analyze these decisions, providing reasons, and explaining why and how you did what you did.

Summary of Requirements

✓ Use one or more cultural artifacts that already exist to craft a new argument.

✓ Make sure that there is a clear central purpose.

✓ Provide support for that central purpose.

✓ If youʼre using a computer to do your remix, make sure your file is accessible--either available online via an accessible site like youtube, or saved as a jpg, pdf, doc, docx, rtf, mp3, etc. Check with me if youʼre not sure. Also, as stated in the syllabus: Follow file naming guidelines (WRA110_Yourlastname_2-Version#).

✓ Reflective cover memo.

Schedule of Activities

WEEK DAY ACTIVITIES

13 11/21 Introduce the project. Talk about remix.

Read “Recording Industry Begins Suing P2P File Sharers Who Illegally Offer Copyrighted Music Online” & Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity

ELI: Remix Project Proposal, Due Monday 11/28 at noon. Be sure to touch on what, how, and why.

14 11/28 Discuss readings, review and discuss remix project proposals.

Read RiP!: A Remix Manifesto and Bound by Law: A Copyright Manifesto

15 12/5 Presentations

Final Version of Remix Assignment due Tuesday, December 6.