Global Contact + City Streets
One of the central questions of this course asks us to consider the ways in which the city street operates across cultures—and as a result of tourism, immigration, and globalization—as a global meeting space. Part of this, as we have discussed, has to do with the street’s capacity to facilitate opportunities for contact across difference. And we’ve examined how these themes appear across genres and how artists and writers use these themes to critique, challenge, and, often, embed a call to action for their audience regarding the sociopolitical and sociocultural issues that emerge in such spaces and contexts.
Your final assignment for this class asks you to join this conversation by creating a text that advocates on behalf of some of these themes with the intent that it will circulate beyond the classroom.
Your Task:
Part I
The text you create for this project, like the ones we’ve been engaging with all quarter, should explicitly or implicitly advocate for a particular stance regarding the street as a global contact zone. The genre you choose to work within, the kind of text you create, and the audience you want to target are entirely up to you.
Whatever you choose, be sure to familiarize yourself with the genre expectations (ideally this will build on the work you’ve already done for the genre analysis assignment, but is not required), establish a purpose, and align your composition and rhetorical choices towards a target audience of your choosing.
Part II
Using the skills you practiced in your genre analysis, write a 750 word heads-up statement (a statement that provides me with more insight into your composition process) that analyzes the effectiveness of your artifact.
The first part should explain what you have created and why.
Questions to address:
- What genre did you choose to work with and why? What genre conventions did you adhere to? Did you push the boundaries of these conventions? Why? What effect does that have?
- What is your primary purpose in creating the text in the manner in which you did?
- Who is your audience? Why have you selected this audience and how have you crafted your text to reach them in particular? Do you think you were successful?
- How do you plan to circulate your text?
The second part should analyze your artifact within the larger conversation of the course.
Questions to address:
- How does your artifact contribute, intervene, contradict, and/or extend the ongoing conversations we’ve been having about the street as a global contact zone?
- How does the street (or urban space more broadly) emerge as a global space in your text?
- How does the cultural context in which your text is situated inform the representation of this space?
- What kind of “call to action”, if any, does your text include? Describe your decision making process for including a call to action or not
- How does your own positionality, privilege, and power in various political, social, and cultural contexts influence the production of your text? How have you taken this into consideration as you join the conversation?
In order to be considered complete your project must:
- Attach/link to created text
- Heads-up statement is 750 words addresses all questions listed, and adheres to MLA formatting (12 pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins)
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