Digital Dorian: Fin de Siècle E-Books
Rough Draft Due: Thurs. 3/12 for in class peer review.
Final Draft Due: Tues. 3/24
orking in groups, in your second project you will design an interactive e-book consisting of a cover and at least two pages of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for a tablet or computer. Your e-book design should be in the style of the late nineteenth century, drawing on such examples as the art of William Morris, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and The Yellow Book. Your design should extend to all elements of the text, including its typography.
Your 500-word rationale will address your group's design choices and their relationship to your selection from the novel. You should also draw these connections for your readers in the annotations that you include. Your rationales must also consider at least one essay we have read and analyze at least two quotations from the novel.
Each group will be assigned a chapter or range of chapters. The pages you select for your e-book from your assigned chapter or range of chapters do not need to directly follow one another. You can include any pages you would like and address why you selected what you did in the rationale.
Your rationale must also address the arguments that your e-book makes and its multimodal synergy, the relationship(s) among its written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal components.
You can construct your-books using such programs as iBooks Author, Wix, Weebly, Prezi, Scalar, Power Point, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Word, or a combination of elements from different programs. You are not required to make your e-book public. If your group is using an online resource, you can use a password and invite the instructor to see it.
Annotations can include: analysis of the significance of words or passages, definitions, historical photographs, maps (you can customize, annotate, and save maps with Google Maps), and references to other texts we have read. Your annotations can also include your own dramatic readings, interpretations, or commentary on the text that you can make using such applications as Audacity or videos you could make of the moments you select.
The e-book must include a list of works cited that includes the book it draws on and the sources for the visual images or materials it includes. You must acknowledge all sources you consult. You must compose the contents of annotations or cite and quote appropriately. It is plagiarism to include content from websites without quoting or citing it appropriately.
Each group must submit its rationale as a Word document that also includes screen shots of the cover and pages of its e-book on T-Square. The e-books can also be submitted as files or links. You can store larger files on the dropbox application on T-Square. Indicate the location(s) of your materials in your rationale.
In this project you will:
Digital Resources Include:
William Morris Archive
NINES
The Yellow Nineties Online
William Morris page from the Victoria and Albert Museum
The rough and final drafts of the assignment are due at least thirty minutes before class on the dates indicated above.
Your rationale must be typed and double spaced in twelve-point, Times New Roman font.
Your list of works cited and parenthetical citations must demonstrate MLA style. You will lose points for not correctly using MLA style.
You will also lose points for lack of proofreading.
For examples of e-books, see http://techstyle.lmc.gatech.edu/untouchable-e-books-mulk-raj-anand-modernism-and-technolog/
Project 2 will receive a group grade. It is worth 25% of your course grade and will be evaluated using the English 1101/1102 Evaluation Rubric.
Your 500-word rationale will address your group's design choices and their relationship to your selection from the novel. You should also draw these connections for your readers in the annotations that you include. Your rationales must also consider at least one essay we have read and analyze at least two quotations from the novel.
Each group will be assigned a chapter or range of chapters. The pages you select for your e-book from your assigned chapter or range of chapters do not need to directly follow one another. You can include any pages you would like and address why you selected what you did in the rationale.
Your rationale must also address the arguments that your e-book makes and its multimodal synergy, the relationship(s) among its written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal components.
You can construct your-books using such programs as iBooks Author, Wix, Weebly, Prezi, Scalar, Power Point, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Word, or a combination of elements from different programs. You are not required to make your e-book public. If your group is using an online resource, you can use a password and invite the instructor to see it.
Annotations can include: analysis of the significance of words or passages, definitions, historical photographs, maps (you can customize, annotate, and save maps with Google Maps), and references to other texts we have read. Your annotations can also include your own dramatic readings, interpretations, or commentary on the text that you can make using such applications as Audacity or videos you could make of the moments you select.
The e-book must include a list of works cited that includes the book it draws on and the sources for the visual images or materials it includes. You must acknowledge all sources you consult. You must compose the contents of annotations or cite and quote appropriately. It is plagiarism to include content from websites without quoting or citing it appropriately.
Each group must submit its rationale as a Word document that also includes screen shots of the cover and pages of its e-book on T-Square. The e-books can also be submitted as files or links. You can store larger files on the dropbox application on T-Square. Indicate the location(s) of your materials in your rationale.
In this project you will:
- Annotate at least two pages of the novel. You will need to reproduce the full text of the pages.
- Design the pages and layout of your e-book.
- Customize the typography.
- Create a cover for your e-book.
- Address your design decisions in a 500-word rationale.
- Include screen shots of the cover and pages of your e-book in the rough and final drafts of your rationale.
Digital Resources Include:
William Morris Archive
NINES
The Yellow Nineties Online
William Morris page from the Victoria and Albert Museum
The rough and final drafts of the assignment are due at least thirty minutes before class on the dates indicated above.
Your rationale must be typed and double spaced in twelve-point, Times New Roman font.
Your list of works cited and parenthetical citations must demonstrate MLA style. You will lose points for not correctly using MLA style.
You will also lose points for lack of proofreading.
For examples of e-books, see http://techstyle.lmc.gatech.edu/untouchable-e-books-mulk-raj-anand-modernism-and-technolog/
Project 2 will receive a group grade. It is worth 25% of your course grade and will be evaluated using the English 1101/1102 Evaluation Rubric.