Public Writing Research Presentation Project #2 | ENG 226 | Spring 2023 Backgrou

Public Writing Research Presentation
Project #2 | ENG 226 | Spring 2023
Background:
In your first project, you critically interrogated the ways in which a historical– and primary– piece of public writing engaged audiences, contexts, embodiments, and rhetoric. This project builds on these understandings and looks to contemporary public writing work online, in our networks and communities.
In this vein, public writing can include the kinds of writing we’ve studied in the first project– public pamphlets, essays and addresses meant to persuade people to act. In the twenty-first-century– however– we can include public art and murals, online content, stories from this place, and stories from people who have lived through turbulent, change-making times, among other artifacts. This project invites you to practice designing research questions, collecting and analyzing primary data, and showcasing your findings in a 5-7 minute multimedia presentation. This project requires you to pose a research question and identify methods for data collection, collect and analyze primary data, contextualize your findings within other research, and present your findings in a rhetorically accessible way. Purpose:
For this project, you have the option to select one of the following foci for your research project. Whichever you choose, you will be responsible for creating a 5-7 minute, engaging presentation [a][b]that contextualizes your research topic, presents findings, and offers key takeaways/contributions/questions.
Social Media/Web Presence content analysis. You will select a public facing social media account, create a framework/set of questions to analyze a suitable sample of the posts. You should analyze message, audience, content strategy, etc. to better understand how this account educates and persuades a broader public. For social media project, you will need to consider what processes of consent and other ethics[c][d] (e.g., not quoting comments without permission). For more information, check out Haywood’s (2019) piece.
Archival research of an organization, event, or person. You will select an event, moment, or strings of moments about an activist event, organization, and/or group of people and using curated archives online, you will select primary images, posters, testimonies, and/or other documents. You will then create a framework/set of questions to to better understand how this event educates and persuades a broader public.
Public writing/art content analysis. You will select a public artifact such as public art, performance, an essay, or some other public writing activity. You will create a framework/set of questions to to better understand how this event educates and persuades a broader public. Oral history of an event. You will interview a person who has lived through a time or access archives of oral histories[e][f]. You will create a framework/set of questions to to better understand how this person’s stories can educate and persuade a broader public. In particular, your presentation should:
Provide background and context on your topic
Pose a specific, answerable, and appropriately scoped research question
Describe the method for data collection and analysis[g][h]
Overview the findings from data collection
Note takeaways, conclusions, limitations and recommendations
Effectively design a presentation, website, or other multimedia presentation that is accessible to your audience
Includes at least one application of a rhetorical concept or theory used in the class
Incorporates at least 2 secondary, peer-reviewed sources that enrich, complicate, and/or extend the analysis
Employ MLA or APA citations and accompanying reference page
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