My Final Project

I can't decide if my final project has really captured what I wanted to say about Kaplan and his research. After showing the project to the class, and after they expressed interest in the different types of writing Kaplan had drawn, I decided to utilize Kaplan's drawings to create broader, more generalized categories and then be able to use those in the Writing Center. This would help to explain some clients/students' logical processes without excluding them to a certain category because of their background. Anyway, many studies had found these categories to be incorrect.

I found a lot of information for and against contrastive rhetoric, so I didn't really know which way to go. I ended up taking the idea of contrastive rhetoric mostly out of the tips for consultations area of my brochure, which, by the way, I spent about 2 hours just fixing the visual components on! It was such a pain, and I still am not satisfied with it's "final" brochure-ness. If we end up making copies and using it in the Writing Center, I would want to add color, or put it on high-gloss paper, or something. But for what is now, I think it's quite a cute, little informative piece.

Oh, I also tried to make it a bit entertaining, just to keep the consultants' interest. We have to read and absorb a lot of information in this class, so I wanted to make sure they would enjoy learning about Kaplan's doodles as much as I enjoyed learning about them.