This page describes the objectives, project details, recommended approaches, hints and tips, submission guidelines, and evaluation standards for the Venue Analysis project.
The Venue Analysis (VA) examines one or more potential venues for publishing your Article project. The VA project challenges you to engage in a systematic study of the venue (e.g., journal, magazine, blog), with the goal of understanding and meeting the standard for publication in that venue.
Document type(s): memo, report
Document length(s): 150 words (memo), 1250 to 1500 words (report)
Project value: 250 points (50, draft; 200 final submission)
Evaluation rubric: _RPW324_Eval_VenueAnalysis.pdf
The Venue Analysis is a brief report that identifies the genre and publishing venue for your Article project. The emphasis is on demonstrating understanding of publishing standards for articles such as yours, and of the local standards for the publications you intend to target for submission.
Your final project submission will include the following elements.
A memo of transmittal introduces the accompanying document to its audience(s). You will craft such a memo with each submission for the project. Your memos should be addressed from you to me, and should introduce the accompanying project. Your memos should incorporate the following content elements.
The VA should provide an economical, concrete description of your article, and of the possible venues where you might submit it for publication.
Recommended tool(s): Adobe InDesign (or Scribus Team Scribus)
This section offers guidance for how to interpret the project, and for how to proceed with your work on it. Therefore, as you work, consider the following strategic recommendation:
This project relies heavily on specific details. Whatever the genre and venue, examine specific examples of articles that have been published in your target venue(s), and locate specific publishing guidelines. Such details give you better understanding of what is required for successful publication.
This section is designed to help you anticipate and avoid problems as you work on this project. Therefore, as you work, consider the following three hints and tips:
Be as specific and concrete as you can throughout your report. Details make the analysis useful. The more and more-tangible the details you incorporate, the more prepared you will be when it comes time to submit your manuscript for publication.
Always strive for high levels of professionalism and consistency in your work. Impress the editor(s) with your attention to detail, and it increases your chances of having your submission accepted for publication.
The revisions and refinements you make from the draft to the final submission may help you understand your design process, and therefore your professional development in more-sophisticated ways. Archive your drafts of projects throughout your coursework, so you are able to examine your growth and maturation.
Read and attend carefully to these submission guidelines. Failure to do so may result in delays in receiving feedback on the draft of your project, or in points lost on the final evaluation of your project.
Create a project folder inside your shared class folder on Dropbox.com. Remember, I can only view files that you place inside the class folder. Until you place files in that space, you have not in practice submitted them.
However, do not share your project folder with me. I will not accept that invitation to view its contents. As long as you place your project files in the folder you created and shared in response to the Week 1 discussions, you are set for the semester.
Name the folder Venue Analysis.
Make sure the files listed below are available to me in the project folder by the description and draft deadlines. Model your filenames on the listed examples:
Make sure the files listed below are available to me in the project folder by the final deadline. Model your filenames on the listed examples:
Note that the Feedback file is one you receive from me in response to your draft submission. Move it into your project folder when you assemble your final submission.
This section describes the standards by which your draft and final submissions will be evaluated.
There are 50 possible points each for the description and video draft. You will earn points according to the following standard.
There are 100 possible points for the final project. You will earn points according to the standard described on the policies page (40% content development, 20% design execution, and 20% professionalism & attention to detail, and 20% impact of revision; see Policies). The specific areas of emphasis for this project are drawn from the description and discussion of the project, and are detailed in the evaluation rubric (_RPW324_Eval_VenueAnalysis.pdf).
Remember that I will only post the point values for projects on the Grades page in SVSU Canvas. I will post the details relevant to that evaluation in your class folder in a project-specific file.
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