Description
The following discussion board gives you the chance to play around with the layout of a text to see how font, white space, alignment, and headings impact the look and “feel” of a document. Do take the time to manipulate these elements in your document to see how the same text can be made to look professional, academic, or playful. As you make your changes, think about what your goal is for the layout of the text and think about how the choices you made helped you achieve the goal. You will then use your experience to complete the second step of this discussion board, writing about your choices. Be creative and have fun with this assignment!
This discussion board has several steps. Be sure to follow all instructions carefully.
Copy and paste the text of “The Real Princess” into a new Word document (text of the story is below — you do not need to search for it). You do not need to use MLA format; simply put your first and last name somewhere in the header section of the document.
Take the text of “The Real Princess” and format it however you wish by adjusting the font, white space, and justification and adding and formatting headings. There is no “right” way the text should look when you are finished, but it should be attractive and your decisions should be consciously made according to the overall purpose you are striving for (a professional look, a playful look, etc.).
Save your Word document (you will upload it as a part of your discussion board post).
Begin a new discussion board thread, and in the text area, answer the following questions in at least 250 words (be sure to use the keywords from each question so that I can easily tell which question you are answering):
Why did you choose the font that you chose?
Why did you use white space as you did?
Why did you justify or left align the text?
Why did you add the headings you did, and why did you format the headings however you chose to do so?
Once you have answered the above questions, upload your Word document and submit your post.
To reply to your peers, read through all of your peers’ posts. Choose two that are vastly different from yours to reply to.
Write a substantial reply to these two peers; each reply should be at least 100 words. As a part of your replies, analyze the differences between what you did and what they did. Include some practice of your rhetorical triangle skills by pointing out how the choices made by your peers affect audience, ethos (the seeming credibility, or lack thereof, of the document), and pathos (any emotion or feeling generated by the document — laughter, seriousness, etc.).
Estimated time to complete this discussion board = 45 minutes
This discussion board meets the following course outcomes:
Course Level Outcome 1: Used a recursive writing process to produce documents for audiences in various disciplines, including business, science, and the humanities.
Course Level Outcome 3: Located, critically examined, and evaluated sources.
Course Level Outcome 5: Produced documents using Standard Edited English.
Course Level Outcome 6: Collaborated actively in a writing community.
This discussion board uses the standard discussion board rubric used for the Plagiarism Discussion Board.
The Real Princess by Hans Christian Andersen
There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong. Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide, for now one thing, now another, seemed to him not quite right about the ladies. At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.
One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the rain poured down from the sky in torrents: besides, it was as dark as pitch. All at once there was heard a violent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince’s father, went out himself to open it.
It was a Princess who was standing outside the door. What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body. She said she was a real Princess.
“Ah! We shall soon see that!” thought the old Queen-mother; however, she said not a word of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom, took all the bed-clothes off the bed, and put three little peas on the bedstead. She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night.
The next morning she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly indeed!” she replied. “I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me so much!”
Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.
The Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he had found a real Princess. The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities, where they are still to be seen, provided they are not lost.
Wasn’t this a lady of real delicacy?
Andersen, Hans Christian. “The Real Princess.” Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Produced by Dianne Bean and David Widger. Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1597/1597-h/1597-h.htm.
