So for this module we are recieving lectures on such topics of rehtoric, authorship, how naratives are constructed etc.

We are now a few weeks into this lecture series and some of the points being made are very interesting and unlike many things within a university context I believe useful outside of that environment, especially rehtoric as within many presentation it is good to employ these techniques to keep your audience engaged and many good speakers will do it without thinking!

So onto my idea for this module. Drawing inspiration from a book Hugo showed us, the title of which escapes me currently, I will update with what it is soon, and more recently today with Geoff the book of 100 million poems I would like to create a project which questions authorship and the idea of a fixed narrative, in a similar way to the Dada movement with their poems.

I will create a digitally based project (read:website) that allows the user to create their own narrative from ones that have preceeded that user. I will provide a starting paragraph, however the user will be able to create their own starting paragraph if they so wish. The user will then create a narrative by either selecting paragraphs which another user has written/copied/stolen or create their own paragraph. Alternatively there will be a randomize button which will select the narrative for the user, however in doing this there will be the possible situation that a paragraph is missed creating a space where the user will have to 'fill in the blank'.

What I have not decided currently is whether to allow the user to select any paragraph that has been written and put them in any order they wish, or keep the order of the paragraphs in which they are written. This could be another possible option of the project and in this way would lean on the Dada poems more for inspiration.

This is just the start and we still have several weeks of lectures left however I quite like this idea currently and would like to run with it if possible, i will explain it to Hugo in more detail next week to make sure it conforms to the project assignment, I think this will probably take about a week to produce hopefully and we can then move on with the dissertation refinement.