The important thing is to figure out what you want to tell your readers about the community you’re studying and how best to present those ideas.
Reading
- Harvard Guide to Outlining. (Links to an external site.)(alternate link: text download)
- What Is an Informal Outline? (Links to an external site.)
- 37 Outstanding Essay Outline Templates (Links to an external site.) (alternate link: text download)
- Making a mind map or a word web
- 5+ Informal Outline Templates (Links to an external site.)
Assignment
While the outline is a tool for writers to organize their thoughts, many students get bogged down in the particulars of outline formatting (when to use Roman numerals, when to use lowercase letters, etc.). If that style of outline works for you, then use that style. If not, the readings provide several options for outlining. The point is to use whatever processes best organize your own thinking and planning for this project.
Think through what you want to tell your readers about the community you’re studying. How do they use writing to pursue their common interests or goals? What example communications do you want to quote? What are the most important or interesting ways your community interacts? What ideas do you want to incorporate from your secondary sources, and what passages do you want to quote?
And the best question to ask yourself: what type of outline will actually help you write a rough draft? This is not an instruction-following exercise so much as a problem-solving exercise. The best outlines help solve the problem of having lots of ideas and information to organize for a project.
For this assignment, create and upload an outline that organizes your research and ideas for Project 2.This is the project 2 that i will post a new post for it: but because this assignment is related to the project 2 i will write it here:
What You’re Doing in Project Two
Once you decide on the community you’ll use for this project, you will start by describing the community you’re analyzing – what are its characteristics, who are its members, what skills, attributes or technologies are required if any, where is it located, and what happens in this community? You will analyze its role in the larger world, by asking possible questions such as:
- What makes it a community, what drives its members to take part, and what does it do?
- Who does it benefit besides its members, if anyone?
- What connects members of this community to each other and in what ways does this community interact with its members internally and with other communities externally?
You will then analyze the writing that occurs in this community:
- What are the genres commonly used in this community?
- Who are the audiences in communication with this community, and for what purposes?
- What are the rhetorical/writing situations in which members of this community are involved, and what roles do those members play?
For your Project 2 submission, you will write a 5- to 7-page analytical essay that includes three examples of writing from your selected community. Over the course of the project, you’ll be:
- Conducting a quick observation of several communities and choosing one to analyze for its writing and communication
- Learning about the make-up of the community you choose to analyze and how members interact and communicate
- Collecting examples of writing from your chosen community that will help illustrate your written analysis and address our guiding question for this project
- Writing an essay that analyzes the community you are studying for this project, and the written communication that occurs within it.
- By the way my community that I already chose is small game hunters.