Syllabus

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

5-3: best explanation of re-purposing or final presentation yet

as you can see in this whiteboard, the key is different senses of place and purpose. for instance, a good presentation would give me a good sense of

  • why and how you made major decisions about what to include and exclude when you were working with the academic journals and purposing them for the genre of the literature review. that is, i'd want to know how and why you lifted certain quotes rather than others and why you talked about those quotes in the way you did, what you decided to emphasize and why, what you considered more important for your purposes and why, plus how those decisions about what was important or worth emphasizing might reflect back on the genre of the literature review or your sense of what's important to public health academically
  • then, it's the same thing, but a re-purposing into another format or genre, and to a different audience, with a different purpose in mind. so i'd want to know, were you, say, talking to a school's guidance counselor or at a rehab facility, what parts of your literature review because irrelevant and why; what you would choose to highlight in that counselor's office that you would not highlight at an academic conference and why; what different quotes you would pick for him how you would read them differently and why. specifically in terms of that last example, too, i'd want to know
  • why you chose that genre or format to re-purpose the literature review to (say, a brochure), what other options you felt like you had to select from and why, plus how you would both sell that information as conveyed in the brochure to the counselor, and how you would instruct her to use it, or how you'd want it to be used by that population and why, plus what intended effect you'd imagine those design decisions to have, how you'd know if those effects were taking place, and why you feel like the document as you designed it is going to be useful for the population its aimed for, and maybe even how significantly the knowledge changed from its original context in the journal article to its use down on the ground by middle schoolers

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