English 306: Introduction to Professional Writing

As I am expecting this to be a rough draft, I have omitted no content but left some things to be fixed when I can go to the writing lab on Monday with suggestions from the instructor.

Mapping Project Assessment—Marc Hert

Fitting the Rhetorical Situation

Biking is something that I have loved to do since I was little. As I grew older, however, it slowly became more inconvenient for me to use it as my primary mode of transportation, since cars are so easy to use in the suburbs, and I got out of the habit. Coming to Purdue, however, I saw how high the amount of traffic and congestion is and then saw how accessible Purdue’s campus is for bicycling as a primary mode of transportation.

In my map, I attempt to visually argue that certain forms of knowledge at Purdue University are obviously privileged over other forms. In order to do this, I compare the enrollments the various colleges at Purdue with their respective budgets. The comparison yields a ratio which I called the disbursement of funds per student in each school. I order these in a way which I hope was both argumentative and visually stimulating.

Attached is the Mapping Project Assessment.

Jackie McKee

Many Purdue students each year move off campus into local apartments, making the decision to live on their own for the first time. Finding a place to live can be stressful, overwhelming, and time-consuming. From simple observation, I have discovered that it can be difficult to find information about apartments in the West Lafayette area, even with the help of the internet.

The intramural activities offered by the Purdue Recreational Sports Center in the spring are the focal point of my mapping project. In revisiting the finished map as a whole and reflecting on the design techniques and processes involved in

Jenni Schroll
Nathaniel Rivers
English 306
Mapping Project Assessment

Rhetorical situation:

The rhetorical situation of the map I designed involved the communication of a specific thought: (1) correlation

Purdue University’s system of libraries includes twelve on-campus libraries, but many student users would be hard pressed to name three or four, and could probably pinpoint the locations of fewer than that. Local readers’ minds may jump to Border’s big name, and consequently pay Border’s big prices, without even thinking of looking for reading material in the used sections of Von’s Bookstore and the West Lafayette Public Library.