Why am I sleeping 3 hours a night? Because I'm a middle child. Because I'm an overachiever, but just not very good at it. Because, above all, I started the second semester of my Capstone thesis for Cultural Studies this week and I've spent the last week cramming in research on US Foreign Policy in Haiti over the last hundred years.
Which is why this class's acceptance of "double-dipping" makes me oh-so-happy.
I knew right away what to do with my PWP. For the Capstone, we're required to create a resume website about our thesis and our ongoing work and interests as "public intellectuals"(I kid you not, that's what academics participating in the 'real world' are calling themselves these days. It's the actual title they use, and I think it's hilarious).
Here's my website thus far: LauraStrait.com
It's pretty bare-bones, it's pretty clunky as far as links and fluidity goes, and the template really isn't appropriate for what I want to do with the site (though the options that WebAgent gives you are less than vast).
Therefore, for my PWP, I want to create a super-fantastic resume website that also doubles as my personal hub for political and cultural interests to share with anyone that will have them. I want multimedia, and links, and essays, and pictures, and I want a golden goose now, Daddy!
(I'm running out of time, but I also wanted to mention how excited I am for the challenge of web-writing, as I've been brutally beaten and conditioned into being an "academic" writer over the course of my Cultural Studies career, and I just don't find that style very accessible for the kind of content I want to be writing about.)
For the sake of avoiding a "text wall", here's a link to the news I listen to every morning (as well as right now) and I think everyone should check it out: DemocracyNow
Laura:
ReplyDeleteWell-aimed, and not particularly academic (don't fret, that's good here), but also tending toward a "wall of words."
So, use headings, bolded text, images, etc. to chunk for and lead your viewers.