Project Summary:

The Review Project asks students to construct two journalistic video game reviews: one that is primarily textual (printed: at least 300 words) and one that is an audio or video recording (burned to CD: at least two minutes—will also included written script). The two reviews will focus on different video games, and they will adopt the styles of two existing venues. The only restriction on a student's choice of games and venues is that each game should be appropriate for its corresponding review context (in terms of genre, period, platform, demographics, etc.). 

Project Sequence:

1. Rhetorically analyze existing textual video game reviews
2. Rhetorically analyze existing recorded video game reviews
3. Discuss practical and technical issues of creating audio and video recordings
4. Construct Design Plans that outline the goals of the reviews and how they will be constructed to accomplish them
5. Create and workshop Textual Review drafts
6. Create and workshop Recorded Review drafts
7. Form Review Project rubric
   
8. Produce final reviews
9. Create Review Analyses
10. Complete reflective Postmortem about design processes

Deliverables:

1. Design Plan (5% of project grade)
2. Textual Review (40% of project grade)
3. Recorded Review (40% of project grade)
4. Review Analysis (10% of project grade)
5. Postmortem (5% of project grade)