This project is a multi-modal representation of the research paper you have just written; you will need to translate or “remediate” your paper into a multimodal composition/presentation that utilizes multiple modes to reach its audience. The purpose of this assignment is for you to reshape a text from a decidedly academic one to a public one that is suitable for a wider audience. As such, you must direct their presentation to a specific audience and make your choices about the presentation accordingly. For instance, if your audience is high school English teachers, you need to design the project to appeal to them and their perceived needs. Likewise, if your audience is first-year college students, you will need to make different choices. Whatever audience and form you choose, your final presentation must include three of the following modes: still visual images, video, audio, gestural, spatial, or linguistic.
The exact parameters of the project are up to you; you are encouraged to be creative and to push yourself. You might choose an audience that is completely different from your classmates and me (the audience for your Research Paper) and see how drastically that alters your presentation. Regardless of what your presentation ultimately looks like, it must do the following:
- Utilize a format amenable to multimodality such as a video, PowerPoint presentation, Prezi, PowToons video, Podcast, webpage, or Screencast-O-Matic recording (help provided in navigation menu), etc.
- Shift the audience from that of the Research Paper to a completely new potential audience;
- Shape the presentation’s purpose, genre, and delivery to match the revised audience;
- Represent the overall thesis/argument of your Research Paper;
- Communicate most of the main points of your Research Paper (you may, however, decide to omit one or two of your paper’s main point and replace them with new information);
Here are some questions you might consider as you plan your project:
Audience and Purpose: How will your audience for this project be different from that of your research paper? For instance, if you create a YouTube video for the general public, and make it available for all to see, how does this impact your potential audience and thus, your purpose? What can you assume (or not assume) that your audience already knows about your topic? What do you want this new audience to know and understand and how will you need to adjust your presentation accordingly?
Context and Genre: How is this presentation meant to be consumed? Where will potential audience members come in contact with it? How will the genre of the presentation work with the new audience and context?