Team Assignment
Due: March 14, 2019
Task: For your final project, you will work with a group to create a web-based mini-site that explores a corpus using the text analysis methods you’ve learned this term. This project needs to represent your best writing and therefore is not a first draft. All final projects need to include the following elements:
- Context of your topic and source materials (1 paragraph)
- Literature Review: synthesize what you learned from your readings as the information relates to the context and your team’s research questions. Note anything the scholars don’t cover that you examined in your project. (2 paragraphs)
- Argument/Thesis: (1-2 sentences in your introductory paragraph)
- Sources used and rationale (1 paragraph)
- Explanation and justification of the analytical techniques chosen (1-2 paragraphs)
- Findings and their significance (~5 paragraphs)
- (Optional) Further research: Provide suggestions for other scholars to build on what you and your team have already accomplished. (1 paragraph)
- Be sure to embed visualizations, any code you’ve used or written and its output, word lists, and any images related to your project. Images might include maps, paintings or sketches of the actors who appear in your sources, etc.
- Citations: Parenthetical citations and/or linked citations.
- Bibliography of primary and secondary sources
Criteria for Success: All final projects will be graded based on the following rubric.
| Points | ||
|---|---|---|
| Written Narrative (Content) | Narrative tells a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end, and a clear argument. The written discussion is substantive, thoughtful, well-argued, and well-edited. Relevant literature is reviewed and acknowledged. Students have paid attention to the fluidity, accessibility, and concision of the language. | 100 |
| Written Narrative (Mechanics) | The team has paid sufficient attention to grammar, spelling, mechanics, and other linguistic issues. Narrative is divided into clear, sensible sections. Sources are cited properly. | 50 |
| Data Visualizations/Presentation of Evidence | Text and corpus selection are relevant to the questions asked. Mode of visualization/presentation is appropriate to the evidence. Visualization is clear and coherent. | 100 |
| Interface Design | Project is easily navigable, coherent in look, and aesthetically appealing. | 50 |
| “About” section | Team members are identified and credited for their work. Page includes appropriate acknowledgments of each person’s role. | 25 |
| Team Roles & Communication | Thorough documentation of group’s rules of engagement, displaying evidence of careful planning. | 50 |
| Bibliography | Bibliography of all source materials used, both primary and secondary in Chicago Style format. | 25 |
| Total | 400 |