Thursday, March 25, 2010

WP2: Statement of Purpose

As CDA mentions, a statement of purpose offers a “clearer and more concrete…sense of purpose, and it explains your purpose by referring to audience and context…[it] should be detailed and specific enough to guide you through the steps of choosing a medium or mix of media, deciding strategies, and then arranging, producing, and testing what you compose” (40). For more information on composing a statement of purpose, reread pages 40-41 and 76-77 in CDA. Furthermore, you might want to reread and think through the statement of purpose model I provided you earlier this semester. Roughly speaking, these documents should be 500-600 words in length. When writing your statement of purpose, please keep in mind the feedback I sent you earlier in the semester. Now that you have all written in this genre at least once, I will grade these documents much more rigorously than last time around. If any of the feedback I offered you last project cycle does not seem clear, do not hesitate to ask for clarification. In addition to the word count, please include 3 relevant hyperlinks and two multimedia elements. DUE: Saturday, March 27th @ 7PM.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Welcome back and I hope you all had super-duper, fantastic Spring Breakouts.

Below is the final, updated conference schedule. As mentioned before, please come prepared to discuss your comic and the comics of your peers, using the language from the McCloud essay and CDA. For those of you selecting Option 2, please bring a complete storyboard of your cartoon, as well as a highly-detailed sketch/drawing of 1 panel. Failure to appear at your conference or be well-prepared will result in an absence. All conferences will be held in my office (Andrews 302) except for the Thursday, in-class session, which will be held in our regular meeting place (Andrews 29).

24 March 2010 at 12:30PM (Wednesday):
Amberley and Erin

25 March 2010 at 11:00AM (Thursday):
James, Ben S, Joey, Ian, and John

25 March 2010 at 12:25PM (Thursday):
Kelli, Sarah, Cara, Ben H, and Ellie

26 March 2010 at 11:00AM (Friday):
Blake and Nina

29 March 2010 at 2:00PM (Monday):
Bryan, Hannah, and Jamie