Now that we've looked at your papers, address this assignment again:

But this time use crayon. Ordinary Crayolas are fine. Select your own paper and crayon colors(s). Limit your palette to 8 colors. The number of words is more open: at least 50, but the top end is up to you. Limit yourself to 2 pages - but page size is up to you. You can illustrate the page(s) if you wish and use pencil or pen addition to crayon. But limit the medium to dominantly crayon.

Part 2: The Notes

Once you have completed this paper, turn your attention to considering some of the choices you made. You'll be making a set of notes in two parts.

Start by listing and briefly explaining the visual choices you made in the work. Try to make this a pretty complete list, covering most of the choices you made - whether you made the choice consciously, whether it was seemingly made for you, or whether it was a constraint of materials or expertise.

What you're creating at this point is a list of observations about the work you did, observations about the materials, the visual layout, and the prose.

Here's a starting point. Add to these as you need.

• Why did you choose to use the paper you did?
• Why did you use the margins you did?
• Where did you put your name? why?
• Why did you break your paragraphs as you did?
• Why did you show paragraphs as you did?
• Why did you choose the color(s) you used?
• Why did you (or why did you not) use straight lines?
• Why did you (or why did you not) use blocks of text?
• Why did you (or why did you not) use diagrams, pictures, illustrations?
• Why did you (or why did you not) do what whatever else you did?

Then, drawing on the the list you worked with above, address the following questions in enough detail that you can discuss them thoroughly in class on Tuesday.

1. What did you do differently this time? What resources did you use to create meaning - in addition to the words themselves - this time - and to what end did you use them? By resources I mean color, size, layout, texture, kind of paper, other...
2. If you changed the prose - the words and sentences, word choice, sentence construction, paragraphs, paragraphing - how did you change them? Why? To what end?
3. Did you bump into any rhetorical difficulties? For instance, how did you handle maintaining your credibility? Did you change the level of formality? Anything else?
4. Did you bump into any difficulties or limits handling the media you used? These might be difficulties in drawing, or in planning the work on the page, or in finding materials....
5. Anything in the work that you don't feel in control of? Didn't know how to do? Wish you could do better?
6. How successful were you with this second work? That is, how well does this work communicate what was intended, that is, how well does it introduce you, to your colleagues, in a university-level course? Where does it succeed, and where not?

Do these notes however you wish: in a notebook, word processor, wiki... But bring them with you to class on Tuesday.

If you use the wiki, go to your WikiName? page and start a page using double-brackets: CrayonNotes?.