1. ENGL102 SU17 – C.J. Hill
Unit 4 Assignment Instructions
Outline of Multi-Genre/Modal Environment Analysis
1: Dear Reader/Introduction: ~200 words (3/4-1 page in length). Introduce the topic for
the reader by previewing what to expect in your project, and what the reader can look
forward to viewing and experiencing through your project. You should simply introduce
the reader to who you are and what this project will include/the environment you are
focusing on. You should describe the focus of your project while also previewing how you
explored this focus in your project in this Dear Reader/Introduction.
2: Expository Mini-Essay: 400-500 words (At least 1½-2 pages double spaced). Form a
thesis about the topic (college campus rhetoric) and use your essay to expose, explain,
inform, or illuminate some issue about the topic. For this essay, you are responding to
your topic/focus in order to give more context and information about the topic/focus of your
project. Have this writing focused and concrete in order to effectively communicate your
topic to your audience. Make this vivid, informational, straight-forward writing that
articulates the theme of spatial rhetoric. In this essay, you should address what this
environment’s message is, who the speaker is, who the audience is, and your individual
perception of this message. Use terms such as ethos, logos, and pathos.
3: Chosen Genres: For your three chosen genres, you can do them in any format that you
think fits your project and/or focus. These genres are meant to display how you can
incorporate your focus through a variety of mediums/forms of writing in order to enhance
the reader’s thinking about the topic.
4: Note Page: This demonstrates to the reader how your focus/thesis about the topic is
incorporated into your genres. In this part of your project, you will describe how each
genre ties into a part of your focus/topic in order to prove how your genres enhance the
reader’s thinking of the topic. In your Notes Page, you will need to do the following:
• Describe why you chose this particular genre,
• Detail why you did the genre in the way that you did,
• Explain what you think is effective about your genre, and why it is
effective,
• Justify how your genre helps your reader gain a deeper understanding of
your topic/focus.
I’m looking for at least ¾ of a page for each genre in your Notes Page.
5: Works Cited Page: For this project, you may need to incorporate sources that help
give you insight towards your focus/topic, or sources that help you support writing about
your genres. If you do, you should include a Works Cited page in MLA format.
Projects are due by Thursday May 3rd at 11:9 pm
Note: How you hand in this project varies on how you choose to compile the materials. You
may be submitting a link to a website, or a pdf file, or a number of other options. However,
you must submit some document to the BbLearn dropbox in order to for me to fill out a
grading rubric for your project. It can be blank if you handed in your project in some other
form.
