"Real" Forms and Resources

Hi, everyone.

We'll spend the next five weeks imagining, drafting, analyzing, revising, and rethinking your Public Awareness Projects in two forms: the research form (or, the historical-causal analysis) and the "real" form (in a suitable genre of your choice).

I have been browsing different genre forms and thought I would post some here for your perusal. What follows are links to various white papers, technical reports, advocacy documents, informational web pages, and brochures that might help get some of the creative juices flowing for your own projects. Some of these represent print genres that have been linked online, as opposed to genres that were created specifically as online projects:

--An informational website built around a Sustainability Report recently distributed at Indiana University.

--Any section of the Sustainability report can be considered a "public awareness" project on its own.

--A related chain of documents for the National Resource Defense Council's "Call Off the Guns" campaign, surrounding a controversial bill allowing open hunting of protected gray wolves. It includes a webpage and message to members of the NRDC, a television advertisement that the NRDC created and aired on cable television in October 2007, an article, and an ENS news release on the outcome of the television advertisement.

Here are some other "real forms" on different topics:
--resource site and database on changing the culture of college drinking
--quality of life report (public document) on the Greenwood Village, Colorado with accompanying website
--informational brochure about "Discovery Academy," a program at Highline High School

Here are some resources I have discovered (including download sites for free, public-domain images):
--multimedia tools in the Information Commons
--digital equipment lending
--free public domain images
--Morguefile.com (another source of free public domain images)

Finally, our course resources page also has links to a number of "live" publications that in themselves provide examples of arguments in real form.

-Dr. Graban