Final Project
Your final assignment for this class will be fairly open-ended—I want this project to represent a culmination of your learning in the class and to also be as useful for you as possible.
- Client project. You will find a client on your own and perform a redesign of their website. The design does not actually have to be implemented by your client, but should be designed around their actual rhetorical needs and specifications.
- Establish your professional web presence. You will create a new web presence for yourself (or substantively revise your existing web presence). Your design should help you to meet some larger professional goal. For instance, you can create an online portfolio of your work for potential employers in your field. Or you can assemble material to support a gradate school aplication. Or you can assemble material to market your services directly to clients. The exact nature of your web presence will be up to you to determine, but the overarching goal should be to establish your ethos online to help realize your larger professional goals.
- Some other project that we work out together. If you have other ideas for projects, let's talk. I'm open to other approaches for this assignment, but we need to make sure that your project stays within a manageable scope for learning goals of this class and the available time.
Regardless of the type of project you choose, you will need to prepare a 500–750 word reflective report describing the rhetorical principles that guided your composition. Your audience for this report is me as your instructor and it should explicate and defend your design decisions. Your overarching goal is to show me that you posses the skills and qualities of a professional web designer.
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