Research Poster: Rough Draft

  • Due Jul 24, 2020 by 11:59pm
  • Points 0
  • Submitting a website url or a file upload
  • Available after Jul 19, 2020 at 12am

Goals

  • Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
  • Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
  • Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
  • Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications. [CLO 7]

The Task

This assignment examines how to display research information in a visual format by designing Digital Research Posters.

Background Note

This project relates to the Fortune 500 Company that you choose during the Correspondence Project. When you read the Writing Scenario, the references in square brackets [] refers to the company you chose. The “To:” heading in the scenario lists “You” as the recipient. In the workplace, “You” would be replaced with your name.

Writing Scenario

Your CEO (pronouns: they, them, theirs) loved the articles that you shared, and now they want to share some of the ideas with the rest of the company to broaden support for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the company. Today, the CEO sent you the following email message:

From: [Name of the CEO of the company you have chosen]
To: You
Subject: Design an ePoster Presentation by Friday
Date: 07/20/2020

The three articles you sent are great. Some of the best that were submitted in fact. Any one of the three could help everyone here learn more about why it’s so important to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Next week, we’ll have an ePoster Session as part of our monthly, all-staff Zoom meeting. Will you choose one of your three articles and create a three- to five-minute ePoster Presentation to share with everyone? Be sure to highlight the IMRaD structure Links to an external site. to emphasize that this isn’t just company opinion. It’s published research.

As you can probably guess, images and graphics are most likely to draw people into your ePoster. One study even reported that 94% of the people surveyed said that the visuals were even more important than what the poster said at getting people to examine it. That stat is from a 2009 NIH study Links to an external site. if you’d like to read more. Since the visual aspect is so important, pay attention to the CRAP design principles that we use in all our documentation and advertising.

Use these linked instructions to design your poster. Everyone will view the posters at their desktop computers, so do what you can to make your poster engaging. The ultimate design is up to you. It’s okay—great even—to try something innovative. Interesting is always better than the same old thing.

Submit your ePoster Presentation by Friday, and IT will get everything set up for the Zoom on Monday. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Take care,
 [Name of the CEO of the company you have chosen]

Composing Your Rough Draft

  1. Complete an Audience Profile Sheet to get started. The form you complete is the same for all assignments in this course. The audience for the assignments changes, so the responses that you add to the form will be different every time.
  2. Review the ePoster Design Instructions, which apply to the draft you will create.
  3. Review Markel & Selber, Appendix A, “Skimming Your Sources and Taking Notes,” and Appendix B, “Documenting Your Sources” if you need a refresher on documentation and bibliographic citation.
    • Understand that this project is unusual, since you are specifically asked to present the ideas from the article you choose.
    • If you borrow specific words and phrases, surround them in quotation marks to indicate that they are not your own words.
  4. Create a rough draft of your project that responds to the writing scenario above. Keep the following expectations in mind:
    • Technology Requirement: Uses PowerPoint or Google Slides. If you want to use something else, send a Canvas Inbox message to me, and I will consider your request.
    • Includes a title slide.
    • Highlights the IMRaD structure Links to an external site. of the article you focus on.
    • Includes a bibliography that provides documentation for all of the outside resources you include. You may use the bibliographical format that is appropriate for your field. Here are some tools if you are unsure what to use:
    • Uses professional design and formatting that does the following:
      • Pays attention to the CRAP design principles.
      • Makes information easy for readers to find and read.
      • Emphasizes important information.
      • Makes a good first impression as a polished, professional document.
    • Uses accurate/appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, linking, and formatting.
  5. Submit your rough draft:
    • Submit your rough draft here by 11:59 PM on Friday, July 24. Include a specific question in the Submission Comments if you would like me to respond to something.
    • If you need more time, submit your rough draft by 11:59 PM on Monday, July 27. Please realize that if you submit during the grace period, I may not have time to respond to your specific question.

Grading Process

You track and grade your own work in this course. Be sure to complete the following tasks:

  • Track your work in your Weekly Work Log in the Class Notebook.
  • Post a passage from your rough draft in Piazza with a specific question.
  • Claim points for submitting your rough draft when you complete the 07/24 Self-Assessment in Canvas.
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