For Project 3, our class will function as a consulting firm whose goal is
to serve clients interested in either revising or developing World Wide
Web pages. That is, your team will be working with an actual business or
organization in the community in order to help it better utilize the potential
of the WWW.
project
summary
To begin,
your team will contact two potential clients who are willing to participate
in this
project.
Then, your team will compose an email where you will describe the feasibility
of each of your potential clients for the project. After I have approved
one of the clients for your team, you will conduct field research to assess
further the client's web needs. Once you have completed your team's initial
research, you will prepare and present an oral progress report addressed
to our class. Based upon feedback on your oral progress report, your team
will draft a recommendation report addressed to your client. Following
peer feedback on your team's first completed draft, your team will revise
and polish its recommendation report and submit it for evaluation.
project benefits
Throughout the semester our course projects have foregrounded the fact
that effective writing is contextualized. This project provides you further
opportunity to research and analyze workplace contexts by consulting with
an actual client.
Your general project goals are to:
Become more
aware of writing as a social act.
Understand
writing as a set of contextualized processes.
Relate
writing strategies to workplace contexts.
Learn
effective oral presentation techniques.
Conduct
and manage a long-term writing/research project.
Gain
experience writing persuasive documents.
project
requirements
potential
client assignment
Following the client criteria, your team
will contact and gain commitments from two potential clients by R,
3/2. After collecting preliminary information about your two potential
clients (i.e. contact person, location, hours of operation, type of organization
or business, clientele served by the organization or business, etc), your
team will compose an email to me
on R, 3/2 responding
to this prompt:
- Who are your two potential clients?
- Who are your contact persons for each client?
- What are the phone #s, addresses, email addresses (if applicable),
and web addresses (if applicable)?
- Based upon your initial contacts and the client criteria, explain
which client is most feasible for this project?
- Explain your initial assessment of the this client's web needs.
client
field research
After being assigned one of your two proposed clients, your team will
plan and conduct field research
on your client context. To assess your client's web needs and prepare
for the oral progress report, your team will conduct at least one interview
and at least one observation as well as collect documents from the client
organization. During your client data collection process, your team will
meet in ProNoun
on R, 3/9 to discuss
your field research progress.
oral
progress report
(40% of project 3 grade)
After conducting and analyzing your team's initial field research, your
team will draft a PowerPoint presentation addressed to our class. Your
team will deliver its well-coordinated and scripted, 15-minute presentation
on either T, 3/28
or R, 3/30. Be certain
to consult "Considerations for OPR"
for information concerning the delivery of your team's presentation.
recommendation
report
(60% of project 3 grade)
After delivering your oral progress report, your team will draft its recommendation
report addressed to your client. To aid in the drafting of your recommendation
report, your team will meet in ProNoun on R,
4/6 to discuss its draft. Your team will email its completed
first draft to an assigned exchange team and me by 7pm on W,
4/19. After individually reading the exchange team's draft, your
team members will meet in ProNoun
on R, 4/20 to respond
to a peer feedback prompt. Your team's final draft of the recommendation
report is due by 7pm on R,
4/27.
Other Client Web
Project Links:
Formatting Reference | Client
Criteria | Client Field Research |
Oral Progress Report | Considerations
for OPR | Recommendation Report
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