2005

This final project will count for the last five-week grade and your final exam grade.

CONTENT:  You will write a minimum of fifteen (15) pages (25 page maximum), excluding title page and illustrations, that will be tied together thematically in some manner which you will explain in your introduction. 

CONCISION EXERCISE:  As an exercise in concision, you must reduce the first two pages of your draft by ten percent and provide the teacher with a computer-highlighted copy of the original draft.  

GENRE:  All components of your project must be nonfiction.  That would include essays of any type, memoirs, autobiography, biography, dialogue, and poetry based on reality.  Memoir is preferred.  All genre must be approved.

FORMAT:  For text, use only Times New Roman at 14-font size.  Provide one-inch margins all around.  Paginate each page.  Provide appropriate titles for each component using 18-font size of any font style, providing a 14-font size space before and after each title.  Do not leave blank space except on the last page (which would be a good place for an illustration).  If you have more than three components including the introduction, provide a table of contents.

TITLE PAGE: Provide an illustrated title page with an appropriate title for the project.  Include only your name and the date.

ILLUSTRATIONS:  Illustrations are expected, but they must be computer generated.  If you want to include a drawing, scan it into your project.  Illustrations do not count as part of the page count.

EXPECTATIONS:  You are expected to confer with the teacher on a regular basis to minimize disappointment on both sides.  The goal is to maximize quality and minimize technical errors.

RETORICAL ANALYSIS:  Select a paragraph or passage and write a rhetorical analysis of that passage.  Add it to the end of your paper but before the two pages provided for the concision exercise.

DUE DATE:  This project is due Friday, June 10.