ENG 204-002

A form that solicits feedback from the reviewers of your draft Proposal and draft posters by explaining precisely what they should evaluate and how (in the body of your blog post

Our group believes that successfully advertising a degree in English means connecting with students about opportunities that exist in the job market after graduation. English is one of those degrees that do not necessarily lend themselves to ideations of remuneration and grandeur. I once saw Kurt Vonnegut (famed author of Slaughterhouse Five) give a speech at Duke University entitled “How to get a job like mine.” The whole point of his talk was that you can’t get a job like his, that a writer cannot expect to write literature and become rich in the modern era. In short, that literature and the lifestyle it affords to its greatest practitioners is gone.
1) These posters are intended to interest both UNCW students with declared majors in English and those who are considering majoring in English to the job opportunities that exist after graduation. How effective do you think the posters are in informing students to these possibilities?
2) Within the posters are information bullets about contact information in the English department and the Career Center on campus. In the role of an existing or prospective English major, do you find this information helpful? Would you contact these offices for more information?
3) These posters will likely be placed at different points on campus, which means they will probably compete with other visual media. Do you think these posters are visible enough and would attract the attention, however brief, of our intended audience? If not, what improvements could we make?
4) The purpose of our project should be clear to the passersby who see our poster. Do you think we include enough information to convey our purpose? Do we include too much information for a poster?
5) Please keep in mind that we really have two audiences. We are first trying to earn the approval of the English department professors and to do that we have had to make some assumptions about what they want to see. If selected by the faculty for placement around campus, our final audience is the student body, which is diverse and different in age and career status from the department’s faculty. In what ways do our posters appeal to both audiences? What improvements could we make for each or both audiences?