Lego Directions Due and into the Next Genre

Hand in your Legos.

Context is key to communication. What does that mean? How about assumptions? We watch Derek Sievers on assumptions.

Thinkwrite I: How did the Lego project go for you? Did you make any assumptions you were not aware of? How did you handle the nomenclature problem? Was it hard to give feedback AS you were building?

I show you the set of directions that taught me the key elements in this genre of writing (assembly directions with no pictures). I did not require these; I was hoping you would discover them by trial and error. Key elements: ______.

Thinkwrite II: Assess your own directions. Which of the key elements did you come up with on your own? Explain.

To keep you thinking about the relationship between the key elements of a genre and effective writing (rhetoric in action), our next two writing projects involve another genre that none of us has written before.

Here's the information sheet (blue). Read it. Now you pair up.

Look at Kickstarter.com. Some projects I've found....#1 and #2 and #3.

Homework:

1. Go to Kickstarter.com and start reading.

2. TWFTD: crowdsourcing

3. There is a phrase of three words that would be considered a cliché in today's blog. Can you find it? No typo.