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theFINAL PROJECT
Writing Matters
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Culminating Project for English 101

For this project, you should select THREE of the projects created this semester (WA1, WA2,
WA3, or WA4), revise them (extensively!), and generate an introductory statement that tells
readers what they will learn about writing and yourself as a writer by reading your publication.
Audience: visitors to the NCoW website; visitors are likely to include educators and students at
all levels. Format: Up to you!

PURPOSE 4 Reflect RELATE

FINAL PROJECT Research Revise

Option 1
Your final project can be presented as a single MS Word document (or pdf) including your table
of contents, introductory chapter, and chapters containing each of your selected and revised pro-
jects. Include images to make your arguments stronger. You’ve been taking photographs all
along, so even if the final projects you include in this publication don’t include a photo essay you
should consider using your photographs and other images strategically and rhetorically.

Option 2
Present all the required elements as a blog, which will enable you to include images and perhaps
even record (as video or audio) your introductory statement.

Option 3
Present all the required elements as a PowerPoint presentation.

Option 4
Got some other format in mind? Share those ideas with your instructor and let’s see if we can’t
make it happen.
Whatever format you select, it needs to be something we can present at an NCoW “Spotlight On”
page dedicated to First-Year Writing at Texas A&M-Commerce. If we can link to it or upload it
to our NCoW archives and present from there, we are good to go. We can support audio, video,
images, and text.

Whatever the format you select, you will be required to include the following elements:
Table of Contents (what’s included in the publication?)

Introductory Statement (introduce the projects contained in the publication, getting readers ready
for what’s to come by offering a brief summary of each item included there, why you selected
each item, and what readers will learn by reading the items contained here)

Chapter 1: One of three projects, deeply revised

Chapter 2: A second of three projects created this semester, deeply revised

Chapter 3: A third of three projects created this semester, deeply revised

Include images, photographs, graphs, excerpts from interviews recording throughout the term
and other artifacts that will help make this publication feel more cohesive and focus your mes-
sage more .

Assessment: Your grade for this culminating project will be based on three factors: (1) How well
does the publication illustrate writing as experienced by this particular? (2) How well does this
publication function as argument for the complexity of writing and writers more generally? (3)
How significant is this contribution to the national conversation on writing? (this criteria will re-
quire you to connect your project to the ongoing conversations about writing as represented in
our readings (and video and audio) this semester) (4) How effectively does this author use words
to communicate her message? (5) How effectively does this author use other modalities (images/
video/audio, if applicable) to communicate her message?