WRI 210: Academic Research and Writing | Courses

We Wake, We Write

a reflective portfolio of multimedia student writing at Wake Forest University

Reflection on Project 4: Multimedia Writing about Political Science

Our final project together presented the three of us with the challenge to adapt an academic essay into a video geared toward a public audience. Though we were building off of Project three, at least two of us would have to take on a completely new project. As a group we chose to use Scott’s…

How to Write Like an Anthropologist

As we turned in our Project 3’s and suddenly realized that we had somehow made it to Project 4, it was worry rather than relief that filled our minds. How would we pick which Project 3 to convert into a video? What are we even going to include in our video? How can we have…

How to Write like an Economist: Lexis and Structure

We decided to video-adapt Paul Holland’s Project 3, which focuses on three of Professor Flanagan’s texts (academic research, an op-ed, and a National Science Foundation research proposal) in order to understand the rhetorical strategies and patterns utilized in academic economic writing. We specifically chose his essay due to the relevancy of the subject in the…

How to Write Like a Film Studies Scholar: A Reflection of Adapting Mediums

For the first step in our project ” How to Writer Like a Film Studies Scholar”, we sat down and discussed which paper we wanted to create into a video. Even though the overall organization and diction of Caroline’s paper was smoother, we ultimately decided on Katherine’s paper. First, we thought it would be visually…