Writing Projects

Portfolio 1:

• Our IRB application
• Assignment Sheet
• Appendix A: Recruitment Script
• Appendix B: Informed Consent Document (Revised 9/1/2001. Please don’t use the version I initially gave you. Some contact info has changed. Print this one out, and take 2 copies to your interview.)
• Appendix C: Interview Guide
• Appendix D: Interview Summary
• (Please note: this is a summary I wrote without having actually conducted an interview. To see some student-authored, interview-based summaries, click here.)
• So all our interview summaries are formatted the same, I want you to use the template provided below to type up your summary. I’ve provided several file types–use whichever opens for you. When you save your draft or final copy, please rename the file as specified in the assignment sheet.
• Blank Summary Form (Microsoft Word 2007)
• Blank Summary Form (Microsoft Word 1997-2003)
• If neither of these works for you, let me know, and I’ll email you one that will!
• Evaluation Criteria

Portfolio 2:

• Assignment Sheet
• Evaluation Criteria
• About the Annotated Bib:
• Annotated Bibliographies”
• “How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography”.
• Sample Annotated Bib (This is the annotated bib I wrote for my PhD exams)
• About the Review of Lit:
• “Learn How to Write a Review of Literature”
• “Writing a Short Literature Review”.
• Samples Reviews of Lit:
• “THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL ADVERTISING IN A CAMPUS NEWSPAPER ON STUDENTS’ CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL” 
• “LBG in the Workplace: A Review of Literature”.

In-class Presentation (10% of final course grade; part of the Portfolio 3 development process)

• Assignment Sheet
• Presentation Schedule

Portfolio 3:

• Assignment Sheet
• Evaluation Criteria
• Considering Design:
• “The Big Four: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity”
•  “Matters of Type”
• “Multimedia Storytelling” (info on storyboarding!)
• “Movie Making Manual: Storyboarding”
• “Why use a storyboard?”
• “Storyboard your Argument with PowerPoint ‘Scribble Decks'” (good for thinking about arguments as “designed,” too)
• Considering Ethics:
•  “Bound by Law”
• “Grand Theft Audio”
• “Old + Old = New: A Copyright Manifesto for the Digital World”
• Inspiration:
• last semester’s YouTube channel
• The Girl Effect (professionally authored video using only text, line, color, and sound.)
• my video on Guatemala (a visual annotation of a source/an argument that what happened was actually genocide
• Suzanne Webb’s students at MSU completed a Tech Literacy autobiography. They were then asked to remix that work, reshaping it to create a video. Here are two of the resultant projects.
• Irina’s Remix: TechLit
• Andy’s Remix: How to Use IMovie HD (’09?)
• Steven Lessner’s WRA 1050 (equivalent to our ENG 1050) and 160 (equivalent to our ENG 1060) used their earlier project to create the following videos:
• “Barack Obama Inauguration”
• Media Effects on Culture
• “Three Track Survival Guide to College”
• Untitled, on McDonald’s & the America Obesity Epidemic
• Production Resources:
• Get MovieMaker Live
• Using MovieMaker Live:
• Microsoft Support Page for Windows Live MovieMaker, ’11
• Tutorial (video) for Windows Live MovieMaker
• Using IMovie:
• Apple I-Movie Support
• Apple I-Movie ’09 Tutorial (pdf)
• Apple I-Movie ’11
• You’ll find lots more tutorials, both videos and text-based, by searching for imovie ‘## (where  ‘## is the two digital year of your version. ’11 is the latest.)
• Please note: you don’t HAVE to use MovieMaker or IMovie. There’s a number of websites that will help you create a video. You’ll find several of the many options listed here.
• If you want to use animation, check out some of these options:
• GoAnimate
• Pixton
• Sketchstar
• ToonDoo
• Poke around! You’ll find lots more options for doing this work. (Just this weekend, for example, my daughter installed an I-pod app, Puppet Pals, that would be wonderful for making a video, even a research-based, argumentative video, depending on your audience!)
• Fonts:
  • Installing Fonts:
    • PC
    • Mac
  • Places to Download Fonts:
    • DaFont.com
    • FontSpace.com
    • UrbanFonts.com
• Images/Music
  • ccMixter (music)
  • Creative Commons Search (Images and Music)
  • flickr Search (for Creative Commons Licensed Images)
  • Public Domain/Royalty-Free Images Resource List
• Need to edit or mix sounds?
• Try Audacity.