Student Name
Course
Date
Project Outline

Introduction

• This entire assignment should fall between 1.5 to 3 pages
• Subreddit Link:
• Subreddit Name: Animal Crossing
• Number of members:
• Brief notes about what you plan to focus on (hobbies, socialization online, animals and society, grief, video games, popular culture, etc.)
  • Brief description of how the subreddit fits
• Section should be less than ½ page

Planned Academic Articles

• Please share 3 academic articles that you plan to use in the paper (less than ½ page)
  • You can provide a quick description of them below your citation information
• Gray, K. L. (2012). Intersecting oppressions and online communities: Examining the experiences of women of color in Xbox Live. Information, Communication & Society, 15(3), 411-428.
  • Considers the importance of race/gender in the context of online hostilities
• The third academic article goes here
  • Repeat process

Proposed Research Questions and Planned Data Collection

• You may have adjusted things since working on the brainstorm and that is okay!
• Use this space to update the plan (up to ¾ page)
• Number of posts and comments you plan to analyze
  • Explanation of why you have made this choice
• RQ1: How frequently are people active in talking about cute animals online?
  • Briefly explain how you plan to answer with your data
  • Briefly explain what you see so far in the data
• RQ2: What cute creatures are most frequently talked about?
  • Briefly explain how you plan to answer with your data
  • Briefly explain what you see so far in the data
• RQ3: What tone is usually present in these interactions?
  • Coding for different key words. This includes when people are supportive (“Nice work!”) or discouraging (“I hated what they did with the finale!”).
  • The community is divided so far, with a split between positive and negative posts. There are a lot of people who seem happy (using words like, “satisfied”), but there are also people who are not happy (using words like “ruined”).
    • At a guess, this could be because a finale recently aired and people are still reacting and processing it.

Data Visualization

• This may change by the time you turn in your final paper and that is okay!
• Provide some brief ideas about what you will do with data visualization
  • You will need one per theme/pattern you discuss! (these are basically the answers to your research questions, which you can develop after looking at the data)
• This section should be up to ½ page
• How do you want to convey data to your reader?
• I will use bar charts because my data will be categorical and these are an effective way to convey this data in an easy to understand way
• I will also use a couple of quotes (which I will de-identify for privacy) to show examples of what I coded

Read and Write answers to the following assignments from the book Miller-Cochran, S. K., Stamper, R., & Cochran, S. (2019). An insider’s guide to academic writing: A rhetoric and reader. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, Macmillan:
1. Inside Work: Writing about Arguments – page 61. Complete the assignment by choosing a text, advertisement, or webpage. Follow the instructions and answer all the questions. BE SURE to pick something that makes a claim and isn’t simply informative or entertaining.

• Include the text you chose to analyze along with your answers.
• Title this section “Argument.”

2. Inside Work: Constructing Thesis Statements – page 64. Complete the assignment writing two (2) thesis statements.

• Title this section “Thesis.”

3. Inside Work: Analyzing Audience Expectations – page 67. Complete the assignment following the instructions – answering the questions.

• Title this section “Audience.”

4. Insider Example: Professional analysis of an advertisement – page 70. After reading, answer the discussion questions on page 73.
5.  Insider Example: Student analysis of an advertisement – page 74. After reading, answer the discussion questions on page 78-79.

• Title these sections “Prof. Analysis” and “Student Analysis” respectively.

1. First, you will complete the assignment, then you will post it to the discussion board for peer review, and you will respond to at least three other peers’ posts on the same discussion board.
2. This assignment can be in any genre and format EXCEPT an essay (Examples: Q&A, interview, charts, dialogue, memorandum, etc.):
   • Inside Work: Understanding Disciplinarity – page 10. Complete all questions and follow instructions. You will need your course schedule – considering at least four courses you have already taken or plan to take.
   • Read Insider’s View: Undergraduate students on academic writing – pages 12-14.
   • Inside Work: Understanding the Goals of Your Writing Course – page 14.

Money Management and Personal Finance
Class Week Three
Special Exercise
Class Three Exercise
Fictional Family Budget
In this Class Session, we have been discussing the importance of goal setting and budgeting. We
have considered the essential elements of budgeting for short-term and long-term goals.
This Assignment is to imagine a fictional family (or your own, if you desire). Set up a budget
sheet for this family showing income and expenses for this family in a given year.
This does not have to be extremely detailed (in fact, make it fit on one page). It is intended
merely as an exercise in seeing that a family only has a limited amount of income and needs to
carefully plan its distribution and management.
The goal of the handling of the income is to cover all short and long-term expenses with an eye
toward growth of financial standing (investments, savings, etc.).
You may do this Assignment in MS Word, Apple Pages, InDesign, MS Excel or Adobe Acrobat.
Once completed, please submit it at the appropriate link in the Course.
This Special Exercise is worth fifty points toward the maximum achievable points of one thousand points for the
Course.
If you have any questions or problems with this Assignment, please let me know.
Michael R. Hughes, Instructor
michaelhughes@amridgeuniversity.edu
870/739-3784