Project Three Overview

CO 122: Analytic and Persuasive Writing
Professor Kathleen Robinson
Project Three
Kathleen Robinson
Project description
Project Three concentrates on continuing to examine the student’s location in the larger cultural community. However, the focus of project three is on engaging in a dialogue with the communities and on creating a change in the communities and cultures that the student is involved with during his/her academic career. The project requires research, writing, revising, and editing skills. The focus of the text will be on locating on an identifiable concern from your memoir (project one) and from your project two text. The project requires that you create a blog that outlines and discusses your project. The project requires that you engage the community in a dialogue through three letters to organizations that work with the community in regards to your issue. These organizations can either support or oppose your community and culture and your chosen theme. In addition to the three letters, you will also construct a short fable with an identifiable theme and/or ethos. This fable will then be distributed to the appropriate audience. Following the completion of the letters and the fable, you will then construct a short analytical essay which addresses your experience with this course. This text will follow the standard rhetorical pattern of introduction, statement of facts, division, proof, refutation, and conclusion.
Some examples for this project would be:

1) Using your theme from your project two, write three letters to three organizations that work with your issue.
Sample-
Theme-Immigration regulations in the United States
Letters-United States Bureau of Immigration
Local Congressman
President
Fable-A little bunny is ostracized from his group because he doesn’t have the proper traveling papers.
Audience-Local group that works with illegal immigrants

Sample-
Theme-First Generation College Students who lack support
Letters-Student Government
Dean
Writing Center
Fable-A rough and unpolished rock hangs out with gemstones in a jewelry store. She is overlooked by many patrons because she is rough, but with the proper assistance, she is turned into the most precious of stones.
Audience-Students in the tutoring center.



Project Requirements
The project will require the student to complete the planning exercise, create an annotated bibliography of at least 5 sources (1 book, 2 articles, 1 web-based, and 1 wild card), create a working outline, create a draft, create three letters and mail them to the proper individuals, create and participate in a peer review session, create an s/v/o and a does/says, create a fable, distribute fable to appropriate audience, create a draft of explanation for instructor revision, and create a final polished draft. In addition, the project will require that you detail and track all project progress on a blog.

Blogsite
www.blogger.com/start