🚨🚨THESE ARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FINAL EXAM 🚨🚨

A Postmodernist Digital Media Argument

This essay will take the form of a complete blog post in the Postmodernists' Forum. You will post it here on our Digital Publishing website, then submit it to Canvas, complete with live digital links. (MLA rules for margins and indentation are, blessedly, suspended.)

The Wrath of Printarius:

You will be submitting your final exam digitally, which means, PRINTARIUS WILL BE SMITEY. Make proper sacrifice of printer cartridges and a USB drive. I encourage you to make a backup Google doc that contains all your text, all your images, and all your links - including links to nerdy Digital Publishing comments that you wrote. Email to Big Nerd for safe-keeping. Prepare so you don't get smote...smeet...smoit.

Required Sources:

• three Postmodernist Works (3 different media) from this Nerdy Digital Publishing website,

• text evidence from your selected literary tradition, but analyzed & evaluated in the POSTMODERNIST tradition , and

• content from your external resources (the connections you made to things in your life)

to compose a digital argument about Postmodernism.

(That means, you make an arguable claim about the purpose, message, or effect of Postmodernism.)

Begin by clicking the button, "Create New Post" in the Postmodernists' Forum. Remember to identify yourself only by your digital alias. Do not identify any peers other than by their digital aliases. Do not post images of friends, family, or acquaintances without their express permission. Make sure all images and links are anonymized. We are on the Wild West Web.

Digital Elements to Include:

1. Cited Evidence from 3+ Different Media Sources from the Nerdy Digital Publishing selections – you can use screen grabs, embedded quotes, images, audio;

2. One Embedded Video from an external source (cited & explained) that relates to your thesis (your original comment connections work great);

3. Two+ Hyperlinks to external sources that support your thesis (your original comment connections work great);

4. One+ Hyperlink to an internal source – a page from Nerdy Digital Publishing or a fellow nerd’s comments (that means, link your Comments #1 #2 and #3); and

5. Subheadings, dividers, and text formatting for clarity and visual impact.

Essay Components:

- A Heading that contains your DIGITAL ALIAS & PERIOD, and a Creative Title.

- A well-crafted introduction with a vivid lead-in and 1+-sentence super-thesis that establishes your arguable claim and your basic line of reasoning;

& 2-3 Body Paragraphs that include:

• Text evidence, analyzed and evaluated through the POSTMODERNIST literary tradition, of Your Source Selection. Have fun with it!

• 2+ Characteristics of Postmodernism – basic explanation, relationship to media sources you select;

• Analysis of the relationship between the Postmodernist elements and your media evidence;

• Analysis of the relationship between the Postmodernist elements and author’s purpose & methods;

• Significance of the texts when viewed through the Postmodernist Literary Tradition;

• Digital elements listed above;

- A Concluding Paragraph with a Nutshell Statement and a Golden Nugget; and

- A Works Cited that includes your Lit Tradition source, your core three media sources, the embedded video, the two external hyperlinks, and any additional sources you feel demonstrate your proficiency in MLA research and documentation.