Revisions Assignment Sheet

Format: Paper or Digital Equivalent (same or different than original project)

Revision 1 (REQUIRED FOR “B” GRADE)

Revision 2 (REQUIRED IN ADDITION TO REVISION 1 FOR “A” GRADE)

Both Due: December 4, 2021 [Blackboard]

WRITING TASK

To revise is to look at something anew. Revising work might include alteration, adaptation, reworking, or updating that work. Sometimes revision is minor and other times revised projects are nearly unrecognizable as a version of the original work. For our purposes, revisions should include significant change. This means proofreading or “editing” is not enough.

For Revisions 1 and 2, you should choose one or two writing projects from ENG 2100 (e.g. Literacy Narrative, Analysis, Research Project) and alter them in some way with the goal of improvement or experimentation. Have fun with this project and use it as a chance to take risks, take the project a step further, and/or try a new method of writing/composing.

This project is designed to encourage you to try something new—remember that experimentation and failure is where learning happens! Spend these last couple weeks embracing that experimentation and trying to let go of the need for perfection. Instead, try something new and reflect on what that process feels like.

APPROACHES

You can choose any of the following approaches for revision. You could even revise the same project twice (e.g. choosing option 1 and option 2 for Revision 1 and Revision 2).

  1. Revise a project in the same medium by making significant changes to content, style, structure, organization, or development.
    • If the original project was a paper, you could revise it as a paper
    • Use feedback from your instructor, the Writing Center, and/or your peers
  2. Revise a project in a different medium with attention to the affordances and constraints of that new medium. Content could be similar or mostly the same.
    • If the original project was a paper, you could revise it into a video, podcast, infographic, photo essay, webpage, series of memes, etc.
    • What needs to change about the project to meet the genre conventions of the new medium? What is different about this medium than a paper?
    • What can you do in the new medium you cannot do in a paper?.

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