Lesson Materials: 1. PowerPoint Presentation
Lesson Objectives: 1. Draw connections between visual and written “syntax,” seeking examples in the assigned reading. 2. Create a collaborative space for working together to ensure that your composing meets assignment criteria.
Connection to Major Paper/Project: This lesson will help you design a good website and make connections between written and visual communication.
Connection to Course Goals: Today’s lesson emphasizes composing as a collaborative process. Your first draft will not be graded, and you will be asked to comment on your partners’ composition.
Activities:
- Author’s Voice: Read the passage, watch this video and reflect on what it means for you as a writer and composer of communicative messages.
- PR Gaffes Activity: 1. Using examples of press releases that companies have made in real life, team up in groups of three and analyze the language of these press releases on the sentence level. 2. Decide whether or not the press releases are well-written and discuss why they were written the way they were.
- Content, Organization, Rhetorical Situation (CORS) Handout: Answer questions about your own website and to review a peers’ website.
- Implement changes: Share your website with the class. Focusing on the 4 categories in the peer review handout (rhetorical situation, visual design, resume, and blog), take notes based on what your peers and the professor say about your site.
Homework:
1. Revise your websites based on peer review feedback and share your websites with the professor.