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Welcome to the COML514 Rhet-Crit Wiki! A Class Project for COML 514 (Advanced Criticism) at Gonzaga University

Each group will prepare a user-friendly piece of criticism using an assigned method. Your goal is to use this wiki to collaborate on your criticism and to present it in an engaging way.

On the right-hand menu under "All Pages," you will see a page that corresponds to your assigned method. This is where you can collaborate with your group members and produce your summary and sample criticism.
 * 1) In 500-750 words, introduce your method. This introduction should be strategic in the sense that your piece of criticism will show this method "in action," so you need to describe your method in a way that is consistent with how you do your criticism.
 * 2) Introduce your chosen artifact: The more you can use the visual features of the wiki to do so, the better. Be sure to make it clear why the artifact and the method go together, given the research questions that you answer with your analysis.
 * 3) Conduct an analysis. This will be a focused analysis, so you'll need to be strategic about how to achieve depth while not going over 1500 words. Use headers, bullet points, graphics, and other visual tools to help make the most of the wiki format.

You are free to use any and all tools in Blackboard to help coordinate your group collaboration on this assignment, or to work completely in this wikispace. Each group member will receive the same grade for this assignment, and I will trust you to work out the best way to collaborate. I am more than happy to help you if you are having trouble dividing labor equally - please contact me by email if you need help.

**Philosophy**: I have two overarching pedagogical goals for this assignment. First, I believe that our current technological innovations are leading us to ever-more collaborative forms of knowledge creation, and the booming popularity of wiki-tools is something that COML graduates should be both conversant with and proficient at using. Second, I hope that these pages that you create will be the start of an ongoing graduate student project in which future classes continue to modify and clarify and keep alive this initial stab at "useable criticism." I am more than happy to discuss both the philosophy that guides this project and the technological nuts-and-bolts. I am certain that some of you are further along in understanding and using this particular technology than I am, so please feel free to initiate conversations with me if they will help you make sense of this assignment and produce useful, innovative, and worthwhile products.

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