Kickstarter Project

For blogs III and IV, I want to start thinking about a project you want to accomplish.  This project needs to be funded.  Try to imagine yourself as an entrepreneur wanting to get your project off the ground.  You can be an aspiring filmmaker, a software developer, or a restaurant owner; the possibilities are endless. Once you have decided on your project, you must write your ad.

Here are the requirements needed for this blog:

(1)An ad that is at least a paragraph long. In this ad, you must consider your rhetorical situation (the five w's and the how).  Write a professional ad where you describe your project and your goal.

(2)Make sure you name your price for this project.  Next, set a number of days for you will keep this ad open.  For example, do you expect you'll need forty days to receive ten thousand dollars for your project?

(3) Once you've completed the second set, write what your backers will receive for their donations. Here's an example:

(A) Those who pledge $100 to Pro. P's PhD fund will receive a limited edition note card with the grand scholar's research scribble.  Raspberry mocha coffee ring included.

(B)Those who pledge $1,000 will receive a hand-written rough draft entitled Pro. P's Guide to Italian Horror Movies and Soundtracks and Their Subversive Irrelevance to Composition Theory and other Rhetorical Nonsense. Impress your philistine friends with this hard-to-read scholarly chicken scratch complete with poems and sketches made during class.

(C) Those who pledge $3,000 will receive an awkward smile, a whimpy handshake, and a free continental breakfast from Denny's—coffee and orange juice not included. Consider this cheap, greasy, unhealthy breakfast as way of shielding my true elitist tendencies.  I want to be a PhD for the people.  Please note: No Romantic languages will be spoken during this sit-down, mainly because I will have forgotten them after writing my dissertation.

(4)Once you have written your incentives for your backers, conclude with the contexts of your ad (PEPE). Then write and briefly discuss the different readers of your ad. 

(5)This ad should concise and well-written.  The smoother your delivery, the more likely someone will give you money.   You may also make a video to help promote your project.

(6)This will be due by Sunday, March 2nd.  It will count as two blogs.  Best of luck.

Blog II: Summer B

The Career Search

Congratulations!  You are coming close to the end of your first four years of college.  You are now ready to start thinking about your career.  For this blog, I would like you to choose your dream career.  In doing so, you are to answer the following questions:

(1)What is your career?

(2)What education requirements do you need for this career?

(3)What the salary expectations are?

(4)What experience do you need before you can take this job?

Then, once you have finished answering those questions, you must write an objective statement that might go on a future resume or CV.  This objective statement should not be too narrow or too broad.  Instead, it should it be just right for this job.

Good luck!

Blog I, Summer B

Facebook Report

           

            You are an admissions officer in a first-tier college.   The finest talent of the nation attends your school.  It just so happens that a large percentage of undergraduates continue their graduate studies at your school.  Unfortunately, it gets harder and harder to let new students into graduate programs because the seats are filled by former undergraduates.

            A respected colleague of yours comes up with a suggestion: A recent article written about party universities reveals your college to be in fifth place out ten schools.  Going from this article, your colleague suggests infiltrating students' Facebook pages for acceptance or denial into the graduate programs.   You like the idea and come up with a document called the Facebook Report.  In this report, you name the students who have inappropriate material on their Facebook pages.  For this blog posting, you are to do the following:

(1)Briefly discuss how you plan to infiltrate a student's Facebook page.

(2)Discuss what things would constitute grounds for rejecting a former student into your graduate program.

(3)Name the four readers of your document, Facebook Report, and how the role they play in perusal of your exposé.  Hint:  the four readers are gatekeeper, primary, secondary, and tertiary.