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Group
Web Page Project
This assignment will combine many of the skills you've been working on
in this course: research, argumentative writing, and web design. It will
ask you to combine your individual skills, as well as the research you
have individually done in your
annotated bibliographies, in these areas in small groups to create
a project which reflects all of your efforts.
Your web site should:
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pose a particular technology-related problem
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convince your audience that this problem exists
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determine a possible solution for this problem
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persuade your audience to accept this solution
This project will have three parts, which will be submitted in stages and
graded separately.
Combining
Research and Developing Arguments
In this stage of the project, you'll pool the knowledge you acquired
individually in your annotated bibliographies. What do you know about this
problem? Why is this problem happening? What do you still need to learn
about it? What is the best way to write about this problem? What kinds
of arguments are you going to use to convince your audience? You'll also
begin thinking about how to design your site: what do you want it to look
like?
At the end of this stage,on April 7th,your group will turn in
the following pieces of writing:
A claims-reasons-support structure for your argument in general, and
for each of your arguments in specific.
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A brief outline of how your arguments for this site are going to fit together.
This outline should be word processed, and use standard outline format.
Developing
Content
In this stage of the project, you'll work on "fleshing out" your arguments
and writing the content for your site. How are you going to convince your
audience that your problem exists, and that your solution is a good idea?
What kinds of appeals are you going to use? How are you going to write
it?
At the end of this stage, on April 14th, your group will turn
in the following:
At least six pages of writing which develop your arguments in detail
and make specific references to the outside sources you have read.
Putting
the Site Together
In this final stage of the project, you'll combine your research, your
writing, and your web design skills to create a site which
For the first part of this stage, your group will make plans for how
the site should look. On Wednesday, April 19th, your group will
turn in two plans for your web site:
a general plan which shows how many nodes you will have (which should
be based on the way you are laying out your arguments) and how they will
be linked togethera sketch of a sample page on your site which shows the
general layout of the page including features such as text and image placement,
layout, color schemes, and navigation.
These plans may be hand-written or drawn, created on the computer, or any
combination thereof. These plans are not set in stone, but the instructor
will grade them and give you constructive feedback, and you should use
them as a basis for constructing your actual site and explain why and how
your group made changes. There will be mandatory (and graded) peer
review activities to give you feedback on your site on April 24th and
28th. For the peer review activities, you will not need everything
to be finished, but you will need enough of the site in place to give your
audience an idea of what the site will be, and be able to explain anything
that is missing.
At the end of this stage, on May 5th, your group will turn in,:
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A web site composed of a minimum of three nodes which integrates
your argumentative writing and your web design plans. All files for this
site should be saved in the group's web project folder within the class
folder, or published on the Internet via one of your web sites.
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An email to the instructor which explains
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which file she should begin reading
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whether or not you wish this material to be published on the Internet (and
if you do, whether a group member will be publishing it or whether the
instructor should publish it)
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karper
introductory
writing program | department
of english | purdue university
last updated: march 30, 2000
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