Re-Writing @ SLU

Design Plan
Flesh out the details for each of the following areas (1,500 words), which address the question of method: 1. Text to be analyzed (texts can include written productions, visual or audio productions, spatial arrangements, etc.) 2. Importance of this text (i.e., make a case for why is it important or necessary to re-write it at this moment?) 3. Technologies to be used in re-write (e.g., word processor, Photoshop, video camera, microphone, still camera) 4. Features of the re-write. Specify the kinds of pictures, text, or video you will feature. This section should be fairly fleshed out. What will the new text look like, sound like, feel like? 5. Purpose of the re-write (i.e., what effect do you hope to achieve? What impact do you want your new text to have on an audience?)

Postmortem
Answer the following questions adopted from Jody Shipkas Toward a Composition Made Whole (4-5 double-spaced pages): 1. What, specifically, is this piece trying to accomplishabove and beyond satisfying the basic requirements outlined in the task description? In other words, what work does, or might, this piece do? For whom? In what contexts? 2. What specific rhetorical, material, methodological, and technological choices did you make in service of accomplishing the goal(s) articulated above? Catalog, as well, choices that you might not have consciously made, those that were made for you when you opted to work with certain genres, materials, and technologies. 3. Why did you end up pursuing this plan as opposed to the others you came up with? How did the various choices listed above allow you to accomplish things that other sets or combinations of choices would not have? 4. Who and what played a role in accomplishing these goals? 5. More specifically, how did the original text itself shape the re-write?