Hey guys! Today we’re going to talk about my final project in my LING305W summer session class. We had to choose a topic that was related to our major which was Linguistics and Graphic design for my teammate; we then had to choose two different genres to explain that topic to two types of audience.
We created our own association called The Pro Graffiti Project. The purpose of this association is to raise awareness about graffiti and why we should keep them in our cities. For our genres, we chose an opinion piece for a newspaper and a case study. The opinion piece was pretty easy to make because it was the most logical choice to introduce, explain and give our side on a topic.
We were able to add photos to explain in details what we were talking about. We highlighted the important words, just like an article online where the words in coloraturas are hyperlinks to more detailed articles. We described and gave definitions of the three different types of street art so that the article doesn’t target just one audience but, on the contrary, expands it.
Something that I really liked about the opinion piece is that we were able to create our own newspaper as well. I present to you The Artist Post, a newspaper for artists or people interested in Art and the different forms it takes.
The case study focuses on the problem of graffiti and gives solutions for the city to consider. The audience for study cases are usually a city council, or a school district for example. We were able to look the cases of different cities more in details and uses their solutions as examples of what we would like for our city.
I think the biggest challenge we met with this project was sticking to the deadlines. We both had other classes later at night and sometimes when one of the project parts was due the same night we usually couldn’t do it.
Finding relevant sources and information was a bit difficult too, and according to the information we would find, the purpose of our topic changed several times. But we settled on one topic and one purpose for our project.
It was a little bit different from other group project because we were only two in our group and it was put together according to our majors. It was easier in a way but also more difficult because we couldn’t really distribute the different tasks. It was also more difficult because we only had a week to write two genres and create a DOCS+V Analysis presentation, which is pretty short. We were lucky to be two hard workers so we did good on the presentation.
After using the DOCS+V Analysis for 6 intensive weeks I feel pretty confident about my skills in text analysis. I think I will use it again in all the classes that require writing essays.
I was a very inspiring summer session. I like creating projects so it was very interesting. This is my last post. I hope you enjoyed reading them!
Enjoy your summer!
Signing out
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