You have the rest of the class period to develop a general description of your project and its context as well as to develop a tentative schedule for the project.

Enter “Responses” to the following seven “Conversations” regarding your topic.

After today's class, you may still reconsider and switch groups or take on a different project, but you need to inform me and let me know your reasons for the switch.  After  February 22nd, you will not be able to change groups.

I.  Description of the Project

A.  Write a tentative description of the project?

B.  What parts and features do you think will make up the project?

II.  Audience

A.  As specifically as possible, describe your primary audience for the project?

B. As specifically as possible, describe your secondary audience(s)?

III.  Purpose

A.  What purpose do you want the project to achieve?

B.  What do you think will be  the purpose(s) of the project's audience as it (they) read or use the product your group will produce?

IV.  Relationship Between Writers and Audience

A.  What attitude(s) will the audience(s) have toward the group and their project?

B.  What attitude does the group have toward  the readers?

V.  Assumptions, Expectations, etc.

A.  What do you assume your audience will know and need to know about the topic the project considers?

B.  What expectations will the audience have regarding tone, organization, content, format, style, etc.?
 

A.  Will you take primarily a communal approach in which you all work together on most aspects of the project?

1.  Where will you meet?
2.  Who will be responsible for scheduling meeting times?

B.  Will you primarily take the divided labor approach to the project and assign tasks?

1.  How will you divide the labor of the project?

a.  Research
b.  Drafting/Designing
c.  Revising
d.  Edition

2.  How will you keep the group focused?
3.  How will you enforce deadlines?

VII.  Tentative Schedule (Please see the course schedule at the end of the syllabus for the key dates regarding the project.  It is fine to use general dates in this tentative schedule.  For example, “By the end of the week of March 14th, we will have completed the research for the project.” )

A.  When will you begin the research for the project?

B.  When will you complete the research?

C.  When will you have a complete draft of the project proposal for the group to review?

D.  When will you have a completed plan or outline for the project?

E.  When will you have a rough draft or prototype of the project completed for group review?

F.  When will you have the first revision completed?

G.  When will you meet to plan the class presentation?

H.  When will you have a dress rehearsal for the class presentation?

I.  When will you have the final draft (or version) of the project completed?