Writing Research and Technology Assignment Sheet 2014
Writing Research and Technology Assignment Sheet 2014
Writing Research and Technology Assignment Sheet 2014
Lets have fun with this assignment, although the writing part is more strict and structure based,
its about your interests/ Hobby, it should be easy and fun to create this assignment both paper
and commercial.
Assignment:
This assignment will be divided into two parts:
Part One
o For part one of this assignment, you will do a research paper (No less than 3
pages no more than 4) on one of your interest or hobbies. You will need to find
Three reliable sources. Out of the three, one of the sources must be an academic
source. With these three sources you will need to create an annotated
bibliography. You will research the history of your hobby and when it was
founded. You will need to use three Plus sources, one having to be a reliable
academic source. You can use books or the internet. You will need enough
information to write a four page research paper and enough information to make
the second part of this assignment easy and educational but fun.
You will be doing 2 Rough Drafts of the assignment to make sure and
secure that you know what should be in this assignment paper and what it
should look like. We will have a couple days to go over all these drafts
and we will review them in detail.
Annotated Bibliography: Must be in APA format and consist a
summary of the source (we have done plenty of these in class look
at your past assignments)
Rough draft one will be a page and half and we will review it with
our classmates.
Rough Draft two I will go over. This must be the full length paper.
That way I can edit the assignment and show you any corrections
you have to make before handing in the final assignment.
Final Draft: Final Draft you will hand it in at the beginning of class
the day it is due. Attached to your paper you must have your
rough drafts with comments and the annotated bibliography.
o Part two of this assignment is the creative and technology part of this assignment.
This part should and will be fun! For this part you must create commercial to
advertise and persuaded us to test out your interest or hobby! Along with your
commercial you will create a paper ad that you will hang around the school or
town (you arent really doing this, its hypothetical). Play around with your
commercial; its your creativity, your little creation! Have fun with it.
Commercial: * Please be appropriate*
The commercial must be between 3-4 minutes, no less and no
more. (Its just to save time) You must persuade us to want and
take interest or look into your hobby put a bit more facts in the
commercial than a normal commercial would have.
o Commercial must be in video form, you can post it on
YouTube or you can bring it on a flash drive.
o You can take videos or you can use images (Make sure to
give credit)
Must haves in your commercial
Audio Recording of you speaking and
advertising
Background Music (appropriate for school,
No Cursing)
Paper Advertisement:
The paper advertisement can be on a 8x11 paper. Pretend you will
be hanging this around school and the town. You want it to be
appealing to the eye.
o Must haves in your advertisement:
Color
Fun
Creativity
*Detailed guide of due dates and what needs to be done by that date*
December 4-6:
We will be in the computer lab searching for sources and working on annotated
bibliography. I will be walking around to help every student. We are in the lab for three
days to make sure every student has one on one with me and so that I can answer any
questions that are lingering. ***Annotated bibliography due December 6th at the end of
class.
Draft 1 December 10th-11th:
Students will need to bring in a rough draft of their paper (only needs to be a
page in a half). We will get into groups and peer edits each others papers. I will walk
around and make sure that I read every students paper and help out with any questions or
concerns.
Draft 2 December 13th, 2014:
We will be in the computer lab once again. Students will finish up any part of
their paper that needs to be finished. At the end of class all second drafts will be due.
December 14th i will return all papers with detailed feedback and anything that needs to
be fixed.
Final draft: December 15th
We will be in the computer lab again to work on final drafts and to answer any
questions about my comments on papers. December16th all FINAL drafts are due to me
at
the beginning of
class
with
your 1-2
DRAFTS and ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY attached. We will discuss in class attire for presentation what
is appropriate and what is not.
Digital Presentation December 18th thru December 20th:
Students will present their digital presentation and paper presentation. All
students but be in PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE (easy 30 points).
Voting day, December 21, 2014:
On this day we will vote on the presentations from 1-20. Ranking them based on
your own opinion on who was the most persuasive and which hobby you will be most
interested in. You will exclude your own hobby. Hobby with the most points will get 2
points on their final exam.
December 23:
Holiday party and I will distribute all final grades of the project.
I have attached all rubrics that will be used for your essay and for your commercial so
that you know what I will be looking for. See Below.
Student Name:
CATEGORY
________________________________________
25
22
19
Length of Paper
4 + Pages
Three
Not Sufficient
Citations
APA Formatting
Everything cited
Improper formatting
can be considered as
plagiarism
Organization
Writing is organized
and makes sense
No organization in
paper.
Information
Information Credible
somewhat Credible
Information not
credible
N/a
Grammar and
Spelling
NO Errors
Some Errors
Rough Draft 1
20 Possible Points
Draft 2
25 Possible Points
Total Points Possible
170 Points
Date Created: Dec 03, 2014 12:36 pm (CST)
Student Name:
CATEGORY
________________________________________
12.5
10
Attire/
Appearance
Professional and
clean attire. Ready
for an interview
No Professionalism.
Knowledge
Student showed
excellent knowledge
of content, needing
no cues and
showing no
hesitation in talking
or answering
questions.
student showed
excellent knowledge
excellent knowledge but video made no
of content but at
sense
times lost focus
Student commercial
did not seem
knowledgeable and
video did not make
sense with topic.
Interest and
Purpose
Video is not
interesting and has
no discernable
purpose.
Audio
Videography Clarity
Commercial had
clear audio and
balance between
talking and music.
Video made sense
and related to topic
Commercial had
clear audio. Video
somewhat
advertised to topic
Commercial Audio
was a bit unclear
and the topic was
lost.
Commercial audio
was completely lost.
Audio and music did
not match. The topic
was lost and
commercial did not
make sense.
Length of Video
Video was 4
minutes long.
Video was 3
minutes long.
Video was 2
minutes long.
Total Possible
Points
75