Your final assignment is to redraft your final paper into a new form—for another audience. You’ll use the same information, but will need to rethink how to present that information in this new form for a new audience. One of the easiest ways to make this change is to move from an academic paper to a web site for a non-academic audience—your friends from high school, for example. Another possibility is to move information from a web site into a print brochure. You might attempt to produce a short film based on an essay. Take photos to illustrate your work for junior high students. Video interview people on their responses to your research topic. Be creative, and have fun! I will give you much credit for attempting to learn something new, even if the product is imperfect. You will probably have considered your redraft when writing your proposal, but if your goals/ideas have changed, be sure to write up a brief memo outlining those changes.

Your final product could be a formal, argumentative paper, a developed personal essay, a short story, a research report, a web site, a cookbook, a wedding planner, a brochure, etc. If you have been working collaboratively, you may continue to do so, or begin to work individually on this project.

The assignment
For this assignment, you will turn in your project redraft plus a one page description of the new audience you are hoping to reach with this work and the changes you’ve made in your work to reach them. That’s all.

Purpose
This project will serve several purposes: it

• gives you a chance to do something new and creative with your research.
• gives you a chance to find a real audience beyond this classroom for your work.
• provides you with an opportunity to "re-envision" (rather than revise) your work.
• helps you become aware of differing audience needs and expectations.

Grading Criteria
Because this project is coming at the end of a very busy semester, you will be graded primarily on your vision for this assignment—not just the product. So please try something interesting, even if you are unsure whether you can pull it off perfectly. (Of course, you also get lots of credit for pulling it off, too.
Project:

• attempts to meet the needs of the audience for which it is intended
• shows interest and creativity on the part of the author.
• explains the changes you have made for this audience and why you’ve made them.
• incorporates some visual element.

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