9.4 Remediation Assignment

Putting It All Together: Remediation Assignment

For this assignment, you will have the opportunity to “re-vision” your Researched Argument into a multimodal composition. The key to this process will be analyzing and addressing your own rhetorical situation: What is it you want to do with this writing—persuade, inform, entertain? Who needs to hear/see it for you to achieve your goal? What form will best suit your goals and be most effective for reaching your audience? Compositions may be silly, but should also be purposefully composed.

Goals

This assignment is designed to:

• Help you identify and select appropriate audiences, genres, and forms for your own project
• Develop beginning proficiency in digital composition
• Allow you to identify and compose for an authentic public audience
• Engage in a significant and sweeping revision of your ideas and writing in response to new audiences and goals

Parts of the Assignment

This assignment will be broken down into two distinct but interrelated parts:

• Multimodal Composition: This will be an audio essay, a short video, a digital narrative, or other digital project. What exactly this will be is flexible based on the goals of your composition and the audience you are trying to reach. Consider the following possibilities for affordances: TikToks, mashups, memes, screen captures, collages, digitally manipulated images, 30-second videos, a series of tweets, a mock Facebook group, Pinterest, infographics, Prezi, slidecasts, etc.
• Reflective/Descriptive Memo: This brief reflective essay (not to exceed 2 full pages) will introduce your instructor to your project and the decisions you made in its composition, including audience considerations, visual rhetoric and design, selection of genre and medium, choices about inclusion of data or information to make your argument, etc. You should also reflect on the process itself—what challenges did you face? What did you expect going into this project, and how did the process align or not with your expectations? How did this project complicate your ideas about what composition is or entails?

Audience

There are two primary parts of this assignment: a multimodal composition and a reflective/descriptive memo. The audience of the multimodal composition will be determined by each student in response to their own goals and compositional choices. The intended audience for the reflective memo is yourself and your instructor.