3. Choose your font carefully, because you must provide reasons for doing so. If you’ve chosen the Homer passage, do not use a Greek font (although a Greek-inspired English font like P22’s “Acropolis Now” or Disney's "Hercules" font are acceptable).

4. Search for images of items mentioned in the poems (vetches, lotus flowers, etc.) to use as visual references, but do not list them on your bibliography. If you use a source image intact, however, it must be properly cited even though it doesn’t count as research.

5. Your design must be informed by the art and design of one or more of the periods involved (and which we have already studied), but it need not look as if a medieval monk produced it. You are a modern designer; if I don’t say you must or you cannot do something, anything goes.

6. Your concept statement must follow my writing guidelines, so read them.

7. Your concept statement must present an argument (i.e. provide good, solid, logical, cogent reasons) to support your solution: why you chose the passage, why you chose the font, images, etc.

8. Do NOT use the word “feel” as a noun. Come to think of it, I’m not fond of it as a verb, either, since I want to know what you think, not what you “feel” or “believe.”

9. Your bibliography must consist of a minimum (not a maximum) of five sources from a variety of media (i.e. books, internet sites, videos—including the one we watched in class, if you were paying attention—articles in journals, essays in books, etc.). Encyclopedias, textbooks, cheesy poster sites, article abstracts, or random Google searches do not count. Avoid Wikipedia as if it were one of the ten plagues, or at least don't tell me you use it.

10. Your bibliography must be annotated; that is, you must describe how you used the source, and/or what it contributed to your research. Use complete sentences (two or three minimum). This means, of course, that you actually have to spend time reading the source material—so don’t just copy the blurb on the book.