Research Remix Assignment

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Assignment by Chloe Cardosi, Bedford New Scholar 2024

Research Remix Assignment

Creating in a Genre 

For this assignment, you will create a public-facing product based on your research expertise for a specific community that addresses their concerns and fills a research need. You will think about and plan how to create a public-facing text that discusses an aspect of your research, and that is designed for a specific community of stakeholders on your research subject by identifying what genre will help you best achieve your rhetorical purpose. You will do this by consciously adapting your research report into a new genre. You will need to understand and analyze your real and imagined audiences, as well as the genre conventions of your chosen genre.

Core Objectives:

• Practice and demonstrate commitment to an extended research project
• Practice and demonstrate genre and audience analysis
• Practice and demonstrate an understanding of making conscious rhetorical moves as a rhetor in a new, public-facing genre

In part, you will do this by considering how to “re-mix" by revising your Segment Two research report into a new genre, such as a podcast or piece of fiction. See more options below.  

You will develop the ethos necessary to reach your intended audience by engaging in new rounds of idea-gathering and research to deepen your understanding of the problem you researched for segment two and, perhaps, tighten your topic focus.  

Key Concepts this Project Should Demonstrate

Ethos: You need to establish your credibility with your intended audience in order to communicate ethically and authoritatively about the problem or issue you’ve chosen to focus on. One of the most important ways to situate your ethos is to do your homework, research the problem exhaustively, not settle for easy answers or superficial searches, read, read, and read about the issue so that you understand it from different angles, and appreciate its complexity.

Audience: You need to understand your audience deeply. You need to know their values, perspectives, and existing knowledge about the problem or issue. You need to understand their assumptions—their logos—so that you can provide them with valuable information and insight. This requires research.

Genre: You need to compose in a genre that is meaningful to you and your audience. You need to match the genre with both your audiences and their purposes as well as your own. You need to think critically about genre at this stage of the research process because your composition will become a valuable source type on an information cycle for other readers and researchers to use and learn from.

The genre options for you to choose from include: 

• Podcast (scripted, delivered, recorded, and posted) 
• In-depth magazine article (i.e. long-form journalism; e.g., The Atlantic, National Geographic) 
• Scholarly article for an academic disciplinary journal 
• Documentary (video, audio with script, Works Cited)
• Creative work
• Creative nonfiction (memoir, biographical, historical, travel writing)
• Fiction (short story, flash fiction, hybrid genres)
  Poetry (prose poems, lyric essay, hybrid genres)
• Graphic comic