Using Bodies and Structures for Student Research Projects
- For a thoughtful discussion of how such assignments foster evolving, collaborative inquiry while challenging traditional forms of exposition, see Dwayne Dixon, “Imagining the Essay as Digital Assemblage: Collaborative Student Experiments with Writing in Scalar,” prompt 1, no. 1 (2017), at http://thepromptjournal.com/index.php/prompt/article/view/13/20.
- Projects can contain a small number of pages (e.g., one main page and the media objects and annotations that apply to it) or a larger number of structured pages and paths.
- In a group project, some tasks/roles could be shared by all, while others could be assigned to individual members, each of whom would develop a particular set of skills within Scalar.