Multimedia Essay

Multimedia Essay (Professor Kathleen Vandenberg)

Assignment

Write an op-ed of 1000 (min)-1200 words (max) in which you take a stance on some current aspect of the digital revolution. Cite at least six sources you located independently—at least two should be scholarly. Concision is crucial.

Conventions of the Genre: See the three links below for advice on objectives, use of first person, sentence style, length, audience, and usual practices.

Incorporate multimodal elements.  This op-ed should include some mix of the following: images (pictures, charts, graphs), video, links to audio, and hyperlinks for all data, studies, and articles drawn upon or referenced (hyperlinks must be contextualized and coherent with the body of the text.)

It should be well designed

Citations: Hyperlink all sources (do not use footnotes or in-text citations; there will be no bibliography or works cited)

Steps:

  1. Create a Google file to gather and organize your research and generate text for your final essay.
  2. Do research, generate text, gather or produce images, videos, links, infographics.
  3. Submit 6 abstracts by Wednesday, June 19 by Midnight.
  4. Compose textual essay
  5. Install InDesign from ACC or access Adobe Spark Page
  6. Visit the InDesign link on Bb for tutorials on how to design your document as well as to see models of online magazine articles. See the InDesign Tip Sheet for help.

Due Sunday, June 30 by Midnight (U.S. time).

  1. Upload Word Doc of textual essay to Bb.
  2. Save Indesign Doc and drag to Google Drive and Share with Me
  3. I will compile these into separate digital magazines and share them with you

Audience: The ideal reader of an op-ed is the ordinary subscriber — a person of normal intelligence who will be happy to learn something from you, provided he can readily understand what you’re saying. It is for a broad community of people that you must write. (NYT Editor Bret Stephens)