The Twitterive (150 points or 15% of total grade)
During this assignment, you will live tweet your experiences over a weekend with the aim to discover a conflict worthy to develop into a compelling multimodal narrative (a "twitterive") that aims to create an experience of aesthetic emotion in your reader.
The objective of the twitterive assignment:
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Here is a wonderful example of this genre: it is a Flash site for the film Memento (you need to make sure pop-ups are allowed so that you can navigate the site).
While it will be difficult to produce something this sophisticated using Weebly and the applications available to you, this example may help you to generate excellent ideas. |
Essentially, you will practice remediating the genre of narrative into a twitterive, cross appropriating a hypermedia (Twitter) into a more immediate technology of writing (narrative), but within another hypermedium: the personal website. The work of remediation aims for you to grow in your understanding of the impact evolving technologies have on writing and on identity.
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Writing Arts Core Value 6: Writing Arts students will understand the impact evolving technologies have on the creation of written texts.
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Possible approaches to take in composing your Twitterive:
Whatever your approach, your story of place ought to include physical, emotional, and reflective dimensions: select tweets that present a compelling theme and that resonate most with you, then explore as many media generating applications (either listed here or ones you locate) as possible to compose a narrative that compels an audience to read and interact with your writing.
Two Stages:
Stage 1) You will post a series of live tweets (15-25) composed over the course of a weekend in which you engage in several activities in two or more locations, at least one location familiar, and at least one other unfamiliar .
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Multimodal/Multigenre Resources
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Concerning "form": When composing your tweets, strive to practice at least three different sentence types from "copy and compose," especially sentence types new to you that you'd like to master. Continue to practice types of sentences that are additive and subordinating.
Concerning "content": Your tweets should participate in multiple dimensions, from the objective to the subjective: the material, emotional, social, and reflective aspects of your experience of the weekend. Be observant: notice how people enact iterations of controlling values when being with others. Tweet these observations as "maxims."
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Stage 2) You will compose your multimodal narrative (a twitterive) using a selection of your original tweets revised and amplified in various ways:
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Your final piece should be arranged in three main parts:
Parts 1 and 2 represent AT LEAST two distinct drafts
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For the second and third draft:
Here is a twitterive that Writing Arts graduate Michael Youngkin composed during Sabatino Mangini's spring 2012 Writing, Research, and Technology course.
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Part 3 introduces your Twitterive
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