Following are your projects for the semester, along with the weight each carries toward your final course grade, using a 100% standard grading scale.
| Project | Description | Length | Weight |
| Blog Posts | Responses to course readings | 600 words per week, average (equivalent of 2 doubled-spaced pages) | 10% |
| Reflection | Reflecting on how you’ve developed as a writer; your “writer’s story” | 1,200-1,400 words (app. 4 double-spaced pages) | 10% |
| Critical and Rhetorical Analysis* | Analyzing how writers and rhetors use language and images for various purposes and effects | 2,100 words (app. 6 double-spaced pages) | 20% |
| Public Issue Argument* | Researching a complex question of your choice and making a rhetorically savvy argument about your findings and thinking; will include an annotated bibliography, a formal proposal, and multiple drafts | 2,800 words (app. 8 double-spaced pages) | 30% |
| Reflecting on Your Writing | An “afterword” or continuation of your Writer’s Story/Reflective writing | 1,400 words (4 double-spaced pages) | 10% |
* Note: These projects will consist of a formal, written proposal and multiple drafts that will constitute your grade for the project. See course website for details.
