ART 418 · Fill-in form · due Sep 14
The problem statement, the form
The one-page form: the sentence, the four boxes, the traps, the sources. Blank, then filled in.
One page. Export it as a PDF and turn it in on Blackboard. The sentence goes in bold at the top, the four boxes under it, the sources at the bottom. Every claim in the boxes has a number in brackets that points to a source in the list. A claim with no number is a guess, and on Sep 14 a guess is a fault.
What it is graded on: one audience, four boxes filled with things you can point to, one sentence that carries all four, and a source list that resolves.
The blank form
(who) need to (do what) because (this is true about them).
| Who has this problem, and how do we know? [ ] |
What is the problem, and what signs show it? [ ] |
| Why is it worth solving, and what does it cost unsolved? [ ] |
Where does it show up, and where does it not? [ ] |
Traps checked. Anchoring __ Wishlisting __ Frankensteining __ Boiling the ocean __ Amplifying feedback __ Presumptuous __ (mark each one you checked against, and say which you are still guilty of)
Sources.
What the machine did.
Where to see one filled in
Not here. A filled-in form teaches the sentence that was already written in it, and
the form is not the hard part; the evidence is. The demonstration is the deck shown
in class, /lecture/art418-pitch-example.html, which runs an invented company all
the way through the same forms in the same order and marks every invented figure
with a dagger. Read it for the shape, and read slide 15 twice: it is the one that
says which parts a demo is allowed to make up and your hand-in is not.