Today we talked about rearranging some of the assignments on the syllabus. It was suggested that the final paper be due two-thirds of the way through the semester. I like this idea because then we would be able to revise the final paper at the end of the semester if we needed to. I also like this idea because most, if not all, of the previous assignments would be more fresh in your mind. It was also suggested that their be an assignment devoted to an outline of your paper. But the question was posed, “What if writing an outline before isn’t effective for some people?’. I myself do not write outlines before, however, if there were an assignment that required me to, I could potentially benefit from that. If you get stuck at a point in your writing, you can refer back to your outline to help create more ideas. Also, you do not necessarily have to use that outline when writing your final paper. It could just be a helpful tool IF you needed it.
I also liked the idea of the multimedia assignments being due at the end because the final paper can be a helpful guide in figuring out what to include in the multimedia projects. Since the final paper poses your most important arguments, you know that those will be the most important arguments to discuss in the multimedia projects. When creating the multimedia projects, it was sometimes difficult to know what to include and what did not necessarily need to discussed. By having the final paper already done, these things will be easier to determine.
I also believe that having the multimedia projects at the end of the class would be beneficial after writing the final research paper. Many people were docked off of their presentations because they did not present enough information. Therefore, if we had done the research ahead of time, then this would allow more sufficient material to talk about during the presentation. This could make it a lot more effective when doing the presentation and mulitmedia projects.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Manali and Kaitlyn because they bring about good points in why we should switch the two assignments. At the time of our presentation we did not fully know our topic as we do at the end. I feel that a presentation at the end would make the most sense so we our well informed on our topic.
ReplyDeleteI think that the multimedia project and the powerpoint were very helpful with the final paper. A outline would help recover some of this, but I think those projects were much more helpful than an outline would ever be, for me at least. Personally, I wouldn't change the order of the assignments.
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