ENGL 106DIST INTRODUCTORY COMPOSITION PROJECT 3: RESEARCH POSTER

ENGL 106DIST
INTRODUCTORY COMPOSITION
PROJECT 3: RESEARCH POSTER

DELIVERABLES

15% of final grade
1^st draft due: Fri, 11/5 by 11:59pm Eastern
peer responses due: Sun, 11/7 by 11:59pm Eastern
2^nd draft due: Fri, 11/12 by 11:59pm Eastern

final poster with abstract (150-200w) and references due: Sun, 11/28 by 11:59pm Eastern

OVERVIEW
For this project, you will remediate the research you completed for your Mapping the Problem Essay—that is, you will re-present your argument in another medium and for a different audience. Using PowerPoint, InDesign, Piktochart (a free online design program), or another tool of your choice, you will create a formal research poster designed to inform an educated audience at an undergraduate research forum (like the conferences hosted by Purdue’s Office of Undergraduate Research) about the topic that you wrote about in your second project.

GETTING STARTED
Your goal for this project is to redesign the conclusions you articulated in your Mapping the Problem Essay to speak to a more general educated audience in a way that combines text with visuals. To achieve this re-presentation, you will have to make decisions about how to present the information you’ve gathered and synthesized in a way that’s more accessible to those outside of your field of study. You will also have to make deliberate, rhetorical choices about document design: what colors do you plan on using? How will you visually represent complex data or concepts? How will you capture your audience’s interest and make them care about your topic?

If you have previous design experience, you can use InDesign or a free online design tool like Canva to create your research poster for this project. If you are unfamiliar with page design software, I recommend that you use Microsoft PowerPoint to lay out your poster. Check out our course website for instructions, examples, readings, and videos with helpful tips. Our course materials will help guide you throughout your remediation process, asking you to consider new methods of organization, style, and formatting. We will also be learning principles of visual and document design, which you should use to guide your decision-making. You can expect that your poster design will undergo many changes as we learn new ways of composing for this genre and medium.

As you revise for this project, you may want to take notes on the different rhetorical and visual choices that you’re making. These reflections will help you to justify your decisions and account for your work in the final reflective essay that you will turn in with your Portfolio.

PROJECT EXPECTATIONS
Using design principles we discuss in the course, you should remediate your second project into a well-designed poster that is effective for a general, educated audience. In addition to this, you will submit a formal abstract for your poster.

Your research poster should:

• Clearly and concisely present select content from your second project using visuals and text.
• Use visual elements (e.g., colors, fonts, images, data visualizations, use of headings, margins, etc.,) to contribute to your overall argument, or the message of your poster
• The poster should be 36” tall by 48” wide
• Cite your sources in MLA or APA format
• Include a Works Cited/References page of your sources
• Include author information (name, major, university, email)
• Follow or improve on genre conventions for formal research posters

Your abstract should:

• Clearly and concisely summarize the details of your project (150-200 words)

This assignment meets ICaP Learning Outcomes 1.a, 1.b, 1.c, 1.d, 1.e, 2.a, 2.b, 2.d, 3.a, 3.b, 4.b, 4.c, 5.a, 5.d, 5.e, 6.a, 6.b, 6.c, 6.d, 6.e, 6.f, 6.g; for more details, see