Community Profile Discussion Solutions

Community Profile Discussion Solutions

Project 3: Community Profile
Total Points: 150 – 25% of Final Course Grade
Guidelines and Checklist

Community Profile Discussion Solutions

Context
As a student at the University of Arizona, you have a variety of opportunities to publish your writing for the UA community, including The Daily Wildcat , UA News, Arizona Alumni Magazine, and countless organizational newsletters. For this project, you will take on the persona of a reporter for one of these UA-based publications, and you will write a profile article that explores and discusses the values, goals, & communication practices of a community that you belong to or wish to join.

The goal of this course is to help you improve as a writer, researcher, critical thinker, and academic student. We work toward that goal in part by helping you to examine your own language use and literacy practices AND also by exploring the communities you belong to or want to join. So, where Project 1 focused on you, Project 2 & 3 focus on community, on how the communication practices (discourse) in your communities reflect their values & meet their goals.

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Purpose
To create an in-depth profile article of a specific community that you belong to or want to join. This profile article should:

· be written in the genre/style of a profile and make thoughtful claims about the shared values and goals of this community,

· inform your audience of how discourse/literacy practices function in that community to reflect its values and meet its goals.,

· use specific details from your research (you can use some of the information from your Genre Analysis Report) as evidence to support your claims about your community’s values and goals

· be written in the genre of a profile and reflect choices (e.g. design, style, tone, organization, etc.) that are made for a specific audience and purpose in its conventions.

Rationale
One way we are identified as a member of a group is by what we do and how we communicate with other members. Communication is prompted by a specific purpose, to a specific audience, and to complete specific actions, and genres emerge as communities accomplish these needs. Researching the literacy practices and genres of a specific community will help provide you with insights into a community with which you are a new or a longtime member. As you research, you will learn more about these key terms:

· Discourse Community: A group of people organized through a set of shared discourse and literacy practices, values, and goals.

· Genres: Categories of texts that allow community members to accomplish activities and goals (e.g. academic/professional publications, newsletters, listservs, social media posts, etc.)

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The Research
· Web/Popular or Scholarly Sources: Research & collect three sources that reveal details about your community and its goals and values.

· Genre Analyses: Research and analyze different texts from your selected community. This is what you did for Project 2

The Profile
After conducting your research, you will take on the persona of a reporter for one of the one of the UA-based publications listed above and write a profile article that explores and discusses the values, goals, & communication practices of a community. Your profile article should have the look and feel of an online article , much like you see in the sample The Daily Wildcat , UA News , Arizona Alumni Magazine ,

In this profile article, you should consider the following questions (but you do not necessarily need to answer EVERY question—these are here to guide you):
· What information about community activities should you highlight?

· What are the most interesting aspects of this community’s use of language and literacy practices, especially for your target audience?

· How much description of location, activities, and membership is needed for your readers?

· What images could you include to enhance the readers’ understanding of the community?

· How could you effectively integrate dialogue, description, and/or narrative into this profile?

· What are your own biases about the group you are profiling? How much of this bias should be reflected in your profile?

· How will you address the “so what” question to your audience? In other words, why should the audience care about the community and be engaged in reading your profile?

Language and Voice
In a profile article, the focus is on the group being profiled, so third-person pronouns (He/She/It/They) are expected. However, writers often have personal connections to the profile group, which means first-person pronouns (I, We) can be used strategically. Continue to develop your own style and voice as a writer, but also make sure that the language and ‘voice’ that you use is appropriate for the online article genre.

Format Requirements
● ~1,500 words

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· Provide an engaging title for the profile article

· Include at least one appropriate & engaging visual in your profile article that supports your claim (again think of the visuals typically used in online articles)

· Cite sources using hyperlinks and include a reference list at the end of your paper.

· Cite all source material (quotes, paraphrases, summaries, facts, and visuals).

· Note: Plagiarism is not accepted.

· Essays including plagiarism will not be read but returned to the student for correction.

Course Objectives
After completing this project you will have made progress towards the following student learning objectives:

1A. analyze a text’s genre and how that influences and guides reading and composing practices. 1B. analyze how genres shape reading and composing practices.

1C. apply knowledge of rhetorical options in reading practices.

2A. integrate evidence through methods such as summaries, paraphrases, quotations, and visuals.

2B. support ideas or positions by discussing evidence from multiple sources.

3A. follow contextually appropriate conventions for language use related to areas such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

3B. apply contextually appropriate citation conventions.

4A. adapt composing and revision processes for a variety of technologies and modalities. 4B. produce multiple revisions on global and local levels.

4C. suggest useful global and local revisions to other writers.

4D. identify the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.

Final Draft of the Community Profile Article: 150 points / 25% of the Course Grade

Trait

Percentage of Grade

Description

Audience and Purpose

25%

Through careful and original analysis, the writer profiles the purposes, audiences, forms, and processes that define a specific community. The profile has a strong sense of purpose and is appropriate and contextualized for a general academic audience who may not be familiar with the community.

Genre Awareness

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25%

The profile is engaging and insightful, guided by a clear main idea that provides unique insight into the discourse and the practices of the community. The analysis demonstrates a very strong understanding of a community’s genre functions, purposes and rhetorical options that writers have.

Development and Support

30%

The writer develops a clear main idea with new insight about the community through exemplary structure and engaging analysis. Compelling examples provide rich and persuasive support for claims. The writer demonstrates strong facility in incorporating support through text excerpts; interview summaries, paraphrases, quotations; observational insights; and/or visuals.

The profile develops in a logical, purposeful, and engaging way.

Genre Conventions

20%

The profile uses conventions–such as language style, formality and tone, sentence structures, organization, and design–in ways that are interesting and appropriate for a profile article. If applicable, citation conventions are applied systematically. Writing shows evidence of revision. Minor errors may be present but do not detract from content.