Writing Projects

English 303
Project 1

Criteria
1. Paper length should be 7-10 pages in length.
2. Paper should be typewritten, in Times New Roman 12 point font with default (1.25 margins)
3. This paper will need to go through the drafting and peer response process.

Researched Analysis Project 1: You will research and critically analyze your own engagement with digital culture. While this analysis will include your personal experiences with various forms of digital culture (software, hardware, networking site, interactive mediums, etc), you will conduct primary and/or secondary research to support the personal claims you make about those forms of digital culture.
The research element of this project need not be especially academic: it should embellish, enliven, decorate, support, and/or illustrate the points you make in your more personal analysis. You may choose to write a traditional academic essay or an autobiographical creative non-fiction piece. You may find you need quotes from experts like Bill Gates or Donna Harroway, or you may find yourself writing to an online community of gamers to ask their opinions about a game you played as a child, or you may find yourself collecting screen shots from your facebook page or recording a friend playing Doom.
I'm leaving a lot of the requirements up to you (which can drive some people nuts, I know & I'm sorry), but here are the goals of this assignment:
You will:
Create a thoughtful, interesting, and/or entertaining analysis of your own role in our digital culture(s).
Examine your level of engagement in/with digital culture(s) and your role in developing that/those culture(s).
Provide examples of the ways you have engaged in that culture throughout your life (personal, professional, academic, creative).
Conduct research to refresh your memory, embellish your text, provide the reader with information, support your claims.
Become conscious of, investigate, and analyze some of the problems, benefits, legal issues, "boons" and "banes" of the things you do "digitally" every day.