Writing a Project Plan

• Rhetorical context
• What are your purposes and goals for this project?

1. inform my audience about organic form
2. show the ways we can interpret naturistic references in this form
3. analyze the use of nature in the expression of the self in organic form

• Who is your audience?

other students and faculty (3–4000 people)

• What is your context?

Hilda Morley’s “Sea Lily”

the use of nature

naturistic references in poetry

• How do these factors play a role, and what and how you will compose?

they’re the main subject of what I’m going to be discussing.

I will be discussing the form and how nature is used to express oneself in poetry

• Genre
• What genre are you composing in?

Society and Culture, Health and Wellness

• What are the rhetorical strategies that composers need to use for their sound writing to be identified as a piece in that genre?

description, exposition, narration, and persuasion/argumentation

• What are some of the “optional” rhetorical moves people make in the genre?

“self-help”

• Structure and organization
• What structure might you imagine for this audio project?

clear, persuasive audio that is engaging for listeners; the actual structure will be based off of the format of a podcast

• How might you organize your content?

1. Sea Lily (poem)
2. Main point: nature is used to express oneself in organic poetry
3. Supporting point
4. Supporting quote

• Audio assets
• What kind of audio do you need to collect?

myself speaking on the poem, maybe a reading of the poem(?)

• Where and how will you collect these audio assets?

record them on my computer and through the recording sessions in class

• How and where will you organize these assets?

on my laptop in an editing app

• Deadlines
• What do you need to get done, and by what date?

Step 1– 4/3

Step 2– 4/7

Step 3– 4/14

Recording Workshop — 4/21

• What days and times will you devote to this project?

Mondays, Wednesdays, Sundays; class time and time out of class

• The Journalist’s question
• Looking at the 5 “W’s” and 1 “H” below, are there any you haven’t answered yet in your plan? If so, answer them here.
• Who will contribute to the project and support you in composing it?
• What do you need to know and gather?
• When is it due, and when will you carve out time to do it?
• Where will it be heard, and by whom?
• Why is this project important?
• How will you carry out the various aspects of the plan?