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Research genre/medium and conventions for We3 (275 words for each page; total 1100 words)
Below is Headnotes Rubric Advice that our instructor emailed to the class. Please refer to the below advise.
1. Credible research (from several different sources) was performed by the group and presented
in an interesting way to inform the audience about the rhetorical situation of the text, its author,
and original audience.
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Comments on Score:
Resource for MLA citing: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ — Connect also has all of the information you need. Assign one person in your group to double-check every single parenthetical citation and Works Cited citation. This is too simple a task to be worth losing points over.
There are tons of sources out there on the texts. If you’re having a hard time finding things on Google, try using quotation marks around phrases and playing with the other words in your search query. For example, to figure out the audience of “Dexter,” you could try the search strings:
“dexter” audience
“dexter” demographics
“dexter” “showtime” audience
You need to be creative and try different combinations. Tons and tons of resources are out there.
Choose credible sources. A personal blog by a random internet junkie? Not credible. A personal blog of a professional reviewer? Better. An academic article published through an online journal? Great.
A good first place to check is to Wiki your text, then check the “References” section to read the articles that are cited in that Wiki page. You will need to do more research, but that can be a good start.
To fulfill the requirements of every section of this project, you will need at least 15 sources.
2. Headnote provides pertinent and specific contextual information that describes the culture and
historical situation in which the text was created, published, and received.
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Comments on Score:
This should be a section with a TON of citations. Lots and lots and lots.
Your job is to give us a snapshot of the world that your text came out in. Choose themes in the text and do research about how those subjects were faring in the real world at the time the text came out. For example, if you were doing a Headnotes on The Hunger Games, which was published in 2008, you might want to write about the state of reality TV/politics/war/teen violence/etc in 2008 (using lots of researched citations).
Remember you are writing about the context in which THE TEXT WAS RELEASED. Not the time period that the text is set in. If you are writing about a text that is set in the ’60s but was released in the 2000s, this section will be about the 2000s.
Keep in mind that you DO need to tell us WHEN the text came out and what was going on historically, politically, econmically, and culturally at the time.
3. Headnote provides pertinent and specific information about the author/director/actors/artists
involved with creating the text.
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Comments on Score:
Think about all of the rhetors who play a part in the text. If it’s a piece of literature written by one person, the author is obviously your rhetor. But if you’re looking at film or television, think about the director, the writer, the producer, the actors — who is making the choices that impact the way this text is communicates it message? All of these people are potential rhetors to research and write about.
Remember the purpose of this project is to provide information that will be helpful to your peers when they write their Rhetorical Analysis essays. Only provide information that will be USEFUL to someone writing an essay on this topic. Where the director went to college and a list of every single other movie he’s ever directed? Probably not the most useful information. A few lines each about a few movies he’s directed that are in some way similar to the text you’re writing about, and which influenced that text and/or were influenced by it? VERY USEFUL.
A terrific resource that every group should be using for each rhetor in this section: interviews with the rhetor talking about this particular project.
4. Headnote provides pertinent and specific information about the text?s primary message(s)
and purpose, including some of the rhetorical devices used to communicate the message/purpose.
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Remember this is a RESEARCH PROJECT. You need to have many citations in this section. Do not make claims that are not supported by research.
Find reviews or academic analyses of the text, talking about its message and rhetorical devices. Find interviews with the rhetor talking about the message and rhetorical devices. You don’t need to write your own original analysis — that’s what you’ll be doing in the RA essay. This project is intended to gather background research for that task.
A good resource for finding rhetorical devices is looking at: www.tvtropes.org, which lists all of the tropes and cliches used in TV shows, movies, graphic novels, and other texts.
Remember that you are asked to research rhetorical devices, NOT just symbols. When thinking of rhetorical devices, consider all the choices the rhetor makes that contribute to HOW the text’s message is communicated. Also, rememebr that rhetorical devices are genre/medium specific. If you’re researching a movie, consider writing about rhetorical devices like lighting, camera angles, audio, music, setting, costume, color palette, etc (using reviews to find credible quotes about those things, of course). If you’re writing about a novel or short story, consider point of view, and literary devices like slang, allusions, utopia/dystopia, use of tropes and archetypes, different types of imagery, the mood/tone of the piece, etc., for your rhetorical devices section. Remember that every entry on your rhetorical devices list should contain quotations from AT least one source; watch for what reviewers tend to comment on about the text, and that will help you figure out which rhetorical devices are worth your attention.
5. The headnote provides pertinent and specific information about the genre and medium of
the text, including noteworthy conventions of this specific genre and medium.
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Comments on Score:
Medium: Don’t just talk about whether your text is a short story/movie/TV show/poem/etc and quote AGWR to tell me what those things are. Get more specific about who created and distributed this text. If you’re writing about a short story or poem, this is the section to talk about the magazine it came out in and/or the publisher that put out the collection. If you’re researching a show, give background information on the specific network it aired on. If you’re writing about a movie, talk about the production company and distribution.
Genre: The best way to find out what genre/s a text falls into is to read reviews. Reviewers are very good at identifying genre. Remember that many texts fall in multiple genres. If this is the case, choose a few of the most important and write about those. If the genre is “comedy,” get more specific, because comedy is hard to pin down: is it dramedy? Satire? Parody? Dark humor? If you’re looking at a TV show, take into account the time the show airs. Primetime shows are very different from daytime TV which is very different from late-night programming. Another good resource for thinking about genre of multimodal texts is: http://www.freebase.com/
For the genre, you will need to find scholarly articles about what the genre is, and what the oconventions of the genre are. You need lots of citations in this section.
6. The headnote provides pertinent and specific information about the audience intended for
this text, both the original audience and other audience groups of note.
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Comments on Score: This is another section that requires LOTS of citations. Do NOT give your own analysis of who the audience might be based on the content of the text. If you do not have research, this section will receive a very low score.
Tell us who the audience for the text was by looking up their demographics. Resources that can help you:
For movies: www.boxofficemojo.com
For television: www.tvbythenumbers.com
For television networks: http://www.nationaltvspots.com/ntvs-networks
For magazines and websites: On the website, look for links on the main page that say things like “Press Kit,” “Media Kit,” “For Advertisers,” or “Advertise With Us.” Almost all websites have this information; they break down their demographics so people who might want to advertise with them can see who they would be advertising to. This information IS available.
Writing an audience section for a novel can be very difficult because advertisers don’t keep track of novel sales the way they do of television and movie advertisements. One very important key to the audience section if you’re writing about a novel is to write a Critical Reception section, where you discuss and cite reviews to give a snapshot of how the novel was received. But if you read carefully, reviewers will often tell you which audience a book is intended for, or give ideas of the demographics to which the book appeals. TIP: you can find some information about the target audience for The Hunger Games on Amazon.com, such as the reading level and other information included in the editorial reviews on the site: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/0439023521/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1342401993&sr=8-5&keywords=hunger+games
7. The headnote demonstrates a synthesis of information. In other words, it is evident that the
group collaborated to present a unified text.
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Comments on Score:
Make sure your use of MLA and hyperlinks are consistent, your fonts are consistent, and that you’er not repeating information like summaries of the text in multiple sections. Every section should be proofread by multiple group members.
8. The headnote has been written and formatted appropriately following the conventions of an online web text, including uniform design formatting (color, font, layout), appropriate images and links related to the topics discussed.
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Comments on Score: Make sure that all of the sources you cite are properly hyperlinked, so that the reader can look at the resources on his or her own, to help research for an RA essay.
9. The headnote is written clearly and precisely with few errors in grammar, punctuation or
spelling.
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Comments on Score: Elect a final draft editor to go through everything for proofing and consistency.
10. The headnote includes appropriate citations for all summaries, paraphrases, and direct quotations (in the genre of a webpage, citations are usually done as hyperlinks); a Works Cited is included that properly lists all sources used in MLA format.
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Comments on Score: Every paragraph of the wiki should be synthesizing research you’ve found and then have summarized for the audience of the class. Make sure that all sources are cited in parentheticals, and hyperlinked so the reader can follow the links and see the original sources
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