Project Planning Activity

Today’s activity is very simple: You’ll talk with your group members about your final project, and come up with a topic.

In discussing this, you’ll need to make reference to the final project rubric, which describes the assignment.

Naturally, you’ll have more conversations as time goes on, but today’s goal is to establish:

1. What modality of project you’re interested in
   • Academic Paper, Educational Website, Educational Video(s), etc
   • If you’ve got questions about what else might be possible, call Will in
2. What topic(s) are most interesting to your group
   • What’s your research question?
   • What kind of analysis are you interested in doing?
   • What do you hope to gain from this?
3. How are you going to write the proposal and create the project?
   • Think about the logistics of making the document shared among many people
   • Who’s going to do what?
   • Who’s in charge of submitting it?
   • How can you jointly edit whatever format the final project is in?
4. How you’re planning to incorporate language and linguistic analysis?
   • It’s very easy to accidentally choose a topic which not about language, but instead is more historical (e.g. “We’re describing the history of Black content creators on Vine.”) or technical (e.g. “We’re looking at changes in meme video length relative to internet speeds”)
   • Make sure that your topic centers linguistic analysis, and if you’re unsure that you’re doing that well, call one of us over to talk it out.

We’ll be around to answer questions, and if you want to ‘flex the rules’ or ask whether something is OK, just raise your hand and help will arrive to pass judgement!