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Writing Research and technology 2014- Creative Assignment

Tell me about Your Hobby/ Interest?


Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to explore the ideas of incorporating Writing, Research and
Technology into your assignment. This assignment is a stepping stone of what you will
experience in college and the real world. Although very important to learn how to do what we
will be doing, I have put a fun twist to it by letting you explore your interest or hobbies.

Lets have fun with this assignment, although the writing part is more strict and structure based,
its about your interests/ Hobby, it should be easy and fun to create this assignment both paper
and commercial.
Assignment:
This assignment will be divided into two parts:

Part One
o For part one of this assignment, you will do a research paper (No less than 3
pages no more than 4) on one of your interest or hobbies. You will need to find
Three reliable sources. Out of the three, one of the sources must be an academic
source. With these three sources you will need to create an annotated
bibliography. You will research the history of your hobby and when it was
founded. You will need to use three Plus sources, one having to be a reliable
academic source. You can use books or the internet. You will need enough
information to write a four page research paper and enough information to make
the second part of this assignment easy and educational but fun.

You will be doing 2 Rough Drafts of the assignment to make sure and
secure that you know what should be in this assignment paper and what it
should look like. We will have a couple days to go over all these drafts
and we will review them in detail.
Annotated Bibliography: Must be in APA format and consist a
summary of the source (we have done plenty of these in class look
at your past assignments)
Rough draft one will be a page and half and we will review it with
our classmates.
Rough Draft two I will go over. This must be the full length paper.
That way I can edit the assignment and show you any corrections
you have to make before handing in the final assignment.

Final Draft: Final Draft you will hand it in at the beginning of class
the day it is due. Attached to your paper you must have your
rough drafts with comments and the annotated bibliography.

Part Two (Based on your idea of what will work)


Please start as soon as possible, like today after school!

o Part two of this assignment is the creative and technology part of this assignment.
This part should and will be fun! For this part you must create commercial to
advertise and persuaded us to test out your interest or hobby! Along with your
commercial you will create a paper ad that you will hang around the school or
town (you arent really doing this, its hypothetical). Play around with your
commercial; its your creativity, your little creation! Have fun with it.
Commercial: * Please be appropriate*
The commercial must be between 3-4 minutes, no less and no
more. (Its just to save time) You must persuade us to want and
take interest or look into your hobby put a bit more facts in the
commercial than a normal commercial would have.
o Commercial must be in video form, you can post it on
YouTube or you can bring it on a flash drive.
o You can take videos or you can use images (Make sure to
give credit)
Must haves in your commercial
Audio Recording of you speaking and
advertising
Background Music (appropriate for school,
No Cursing)
Paper Advertisement:
The paper advertisement can be on a 8x11 paper. Pretend you will
be hanging this around school and the town. You want it to be
appealing to the eye.
o Must haves in your advertisement:
Color
Fun
Creativity

*Detailed guide of due dates and what needs to be done by that date*
December 4-6:
We will be in the computer lab searching for sources and working on annotated
bibliography. I will be walking around to help every student. We are in the lab for three
days to make sure every student has one on one with me and so that I can answer any
questions that are lingering. ***Annotated bibliography due December 6th at the end of
class.
Draft 1 December 10th-11th:
Students will need to bring in a rough draft of their paper (only needs to be a
page in a half). We will get into groups and peer edits each others papers. I will walk
around and make sure that I read every students paper and help out with any questions or
concerns.
Draft 2 December 13th, 2014:
We will be in the computer lab once again. Students will finish up any part of
their paper that needs to be finished. At the end of class all second drafts will be due.
December 14th i will return all papers with detailed feedback and anything that needs to
be fixed.
Final draft: December 15th
We will be in the computer lab again to work on final drafts and to answer any
questions about my comments on papers. December16th all FINAL drafts are due to me
at
the beginning of
class
with
your 1-2
DRAFTS and ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY attached. We will discuss in class attire for presentation what
is appropriate and what is not.
Digital Presentation December 18th thru December 20th:
Students will present their digital presentation and paper presentation. All
students but be in PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE (easy 30 points).
Voting day, December 21, 2014:
On this day we will vote on the presentations from 1-20. Ranking them based on
your own opinion on who was the most persuasive and which hobby you will be most
interested in. You will exclude your own hobby. Hobby with the most points will get 2
points on their final exam.
December 23:
Holiday party and I will distribute all final grades of the project.

I have attached all rubrics that will be used for your essay and for your commercial so
that you know what I will be looking for. See Below.

Research Report: Interest/Hobby Research Paper

Teacher Name: Amanda Cordero

Student Name:
CATEGORY

________________________________________

25

22

19

Length of Paper

4 + Pages

three and half

Three

Not Sufficient

Citations

APA Formatting
Everything cited

APA Formatting Some Some information


information properly improperly cited
cited

Improper formatting
can be considered as
plagiarism

Organization

Writing is organized
and makes sense

Sometimes loses track N/A


of organization.

No organization in
paper.

Information

Information Credible

somewhat Credible

Information not
credible

N/a

Grammar and
Spelling

NO Errors

Some Errors

Too many Errors, clear


that student did not
do much in using
drafts to edit and
revise paper.

Rough Draft 1

1 and half pages some


ideas presented 20

1 page draft and


minimal ideas
presented. 10

all four pages, ideas


presented 25

3 pages and some


ideas presented 12.5

20 Possible Points

Draft 2

25 Possible Points
Total Points Possible

170 Points
Date Created: Dec 03, 2014 12:36 pm (CST)

Video - Commercial: Interest/Hobby Commercial

Teacher Name: Amanda Cordero

Student Name:
CATEGORY

________________________________________

12.5

10

Attire/
Appearance

Professional and
clean attire. Ready
for an interview

Students attire was


appropriate but
appearance was not
their

student attire was


casual but still
presented
themselves well

No Professionalism.

Knowledge

Student showed
excellent knowledge
of content, needing
no cues and
showing no
hesitation in talking
or answering
questions.

student showed
excellent knowledge
excellent knowledge but video made no
of content but at
sense
times lost focus

Student commercial
did not seem
knowledgeable and
video did not make
sense with topic.

Interest and
Purpose

Video has a clear


and interesting
purpose.

Video is interesting Video is not very


but purpose is
interesting and
somewhat unclear. purpose is
somewhat unclear.

Video is not
interesting and has
no discernable
purpose.

Audio

Had Talking and


Had talking in the
music in commercial commercial

Had Music in the


commercial

Nothing was in the


commercial but
images.

Videography Clarity

Commercial had
clear audio and
balance between
talking and music.
Video made sense
and related to topic

Commercial had
clear audio. Video
somewhat
advertised to topic

Commercial Audio
was a bit unclear
and the topic was
lost.

Commercial audio
was completely lost.
Audio and music did
not match. The topic
was lost and
commercial did not
make sense.

Length of Video

Video was 4
minutes long.

Video was 3
minutes long.

Video was 2
minutes long.

Video was less than


2 or more than 4
minutes long.

Total Possible
Points

75

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