TY - JOUR AU - Taschereau Mamers, Danielle PY - 2023/02/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Field Guide to Lost Futures: A Collaborative Engagement with the Anthropocene JF - Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments JA - Prompt VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.31719/pjaw.v7i1.117 UR - https://thepromptjournal.com/index.php/prompt/article/view/117 SP - AB - <p>The Field Guide to Lost Futures is a collaborative digital humanities assignment created for an upper-year English and cultural studies seminar. The course engaged with the expansive and complex topic of the Anthropocene, from a humanities and specifically cultural studies perspective. To focus student’s engagements with the many catastrophes associated with the Anthropocene, the assignment asked them to profile a single, concrete example of loss related to ongoing environmental crises in a brief contribution to the Field Guide website. Designed with the isolation and dispersal of students due to COVID-19 virtual learning, the Field Guide assignment brought students together in a collective project without the pressures of group work. The assignment was organized as a portfolio of four low-stakes activities that led to the final Field Guide entry. The scaffolded design and experiential nature of the assignment emphasized the multi-stage nature of writing and revision, as well as editorial considerations unique to writing for an online audience.</p> ER -