No offense to McKenzie, but I revised his proposal to reflect the revisions I thought it needed, based on our workshop.
Project proposal for Creativity and Composition in the Digital Age: a Student Manifesto
Susan Grogan, (309) 555-5555 segrogan@anemailservice.com (Contact)
Kevin McKenzie, (847) 239-2078, kmmckenn@anemailservice.com (Contact)
Dan Harla, daharlaa@anemailservice.com
Andrew Wasowicz, ALwasowiczzSF@anemailservice.com
For Topoi/Praxis section of Kairos
Instructor: Prof. Cheryl Ball
In Creativity and Composition in the Digital Age: A Student Manifesto, four students come together to investigate issues that arrest modern, digitally-based, creative composition in education and the impact such limitations have on students as they move beyond the classroom and into the professional sphere. The manifesto is the culmination of our discussion about the limitations and challenges that face educators and students and thus links back to our individual research and summarized thoughts. Kevin McKenize examines how technological limitations due to socioeconomic and gender barriers impact creative and technological success in the classroom. Susan Grogan focuses on the shared cultural myths about what it means to be creative, due to a lack of expanded research and misunderstandings in educational psychology. Daniel Harla presents a “re-mix” of pedagogy that demonstrates why teachers should value multimodal and creative composition as a vital and growing facet of composition. Andrew Wasowicz examines how lack support for creative thinking and multiple literacies can affect students the professional sphere. As both a rhetorical device and a proof of concept, we use multimodal techniques to make our case; these include video, audio, images, hypertext, and traditional scholarship presented in a website format.
We have revisions to be made; first and foremost, we plan to improve the integration of our individual sections into the primary manifesto. A redesign of the User Interface that emphasizes the manifesto must be undertaken. We are reconsidering how to improve readability concerns we have due to font sizes and website layout in multiple browsers, computer operating systems, and on various monitor sizes. In addition, we intend to streamline the navigation throughout the website to allow for clarified navigation for those less familiar with non-linear texts, while retaining the freedom for readers to explore in a non-linear manner. Lastly, we are willing to make any changes the editorial board suggests. A prototype is available for viewing here: http://my.ilstu.edu/~alwasow/ .
Thank you for your time and consideration of our composition.
Susan Grogan
