Multimodal project: final submission check

Check the purpose

Start with your focused research question about experiences of living in a specific place. Your project should explore cultural, social, or material realities beyond a physical description. The assigned purpose is investigation and exploration. Check that your project follows that purpose rather than turning into an argument for a position.

Trace research into the project

Primary research should carry the exploration: information you gathered through interviews, observations, historical documents, oral histories, or another suitable method. Secondary sources may support it. For each important finding, locate the evidence in your own research and show the connection to your question. Do not add an interview, observation, quotation, or finding you did not obtain.

The directions call for referencing and giving credit to three sources. They do not require those to be three secondary sources; primary research remains central.

Match the chosen format

• Interactive or multimodal essay/report: 1,500–2,000 words.
• Podcast episode or audio essay: 8–10 minutes.
• Video essay: 5–10 minutes.
• Social media campaign: 8–12 interactive, multimodal posts.
• Other ideas require instructor approval.

The project needs more than words on a page: use other modes purposefully. Add an engaging title and a short blurb that introduces its purpose to the audience.

Compare models of your chosen genre and venue so your design fits their conventions and your audience.

Check assets and access

Explain what each image, sound, clip, or other asset does for your audience. Credit source material and check ethical and legal use. Audio projects need an accompanying .docx transcript, with speakers identified and sounds described in context. Video projects need captions; consider visual descriptions where useful. Test the finished project in the format your audience will use.

Audit the Statement of Goals and Choices

Write at least 750 words, double-spaced in 11–12 point type. The statement is a formal essay with claims supported by evidence from your own process and product.

1. Name your research question, personal and rhetorical goals, audience, and what the project does for them.
2. Explain specific choices of materials, technology, research methods, and rhetoric. Include choices you noticed only afterward.
3. Explain why you chose this plan over alternatives and how it served your goals.
4. Discuss risks, why you took them, and how they helped or harmed the result.

Point to concrete features of your own project. A claim such as “the design works” needs an example and an explanation of its effect.

Review the quality criteria

The assignment identifies sophistication, specificity and clarity, purposeful organization, and crafted style as the qualities distinguishing stronger work. Use those criteria to review both the project and statement. These are qualitative criteria; the directions do not provide numeric weights to reproduce here.

Submit and verify

Place the project where its medium works and provide access through Canvas. Check any shared link without relying on your signed-in account. Include the Statement of Goals and Choices and required accessibility material. The current Canvas assignment accepts file uploads; the directions also discuss hosted links, and retain older references to Blackboard. Follow the current Canvas submission controls, and ask the instructor if the link/file packaging is unclear. After submitting, reopen the assignment to confirm the intended files registered.