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Writing Project 3 Assignment
Writing Project 3 Assignment
Writing Project 3 Assignment
Task
Gather into a team of three or four writers. Choose one of the team members’ wicked
problems from Unit 2, and write a proposal for a mobile app that will help one person in the
community address an issue that wicked problem creates (for example, a proposal for an app
that gives trans people a map of all-gender bathrooms in Kansas City, MO, an issue of
exclusion due to conventional views of gender). You’ll 1. describe the problem, 2. explain the
app concept, 3. give examples of what it might look like, and 4. justify why this idea is worth
funding. You’ll present your ideas as a group presentation on December 13.
Purpose
This final assignment continues the course goals: see how different formats of information
troubles theories of composition and neutrality. Specifically, it achieves three goals: First, it
helps you learn theories on composition and interactivity. Second, generate strategies for
working with a team of communicators and how theories of authorship get disrupted by this
dynamic. Third, self-reflect and practice how interactivity does (or does not) promote
understanding and social action in the context of participatory civic media.
Audience
Based on your goals for the project, the audience may vary. Ultimately, you’re writing for
multiple groups: stakeholders who may fund the project as well as members of your identified
community. The community must be able to interact with information in the prototype that
then leads to some kind of real-world action. The potential funders must understand the
project clearly enough that they would be willing to help out!
Genre and Format
Overall, as you design your mobile or web app prototype consider the following features:
Evaluative Criteria
Evaluation is based on your reflecting on how the concepts we discuss in this unit inform your
own writing processes, writing habits, and the rhetorical goals you have for your composing
the proposal. Evaluation of the proposal itself is in direct relation to your goals and justification
for your choices in composing the document and creating the app. In my response, I take into
account your goals for the piece and make suggestions on how you might revise the project so
you can get closer to your goals. While you won’t have to make revisions, you can consider in
your process letter what steps you would take had you had more time.