Book Questions

1. What is your book about?
Titled  How to Go To High School: Without Going

This book is a sarcastic caricature of the skipping aspect of my high school career, carefully examining every aspect from how to do it properly to what you should do instead. This detailed analysis will scrutinize every idea that you have assumed everyone would know to aspects one would never even consider considering.

2. What makes your content choice specific to you?

Aside from the obvious pun, the section dedicated to what you do now that you’re skipping highlights everything I personally find enjoyable, from favourite songs to how to make your own face mask.

3. How are you going to represent your content?

The aesthetics of the book are meant to be extremely professional, awarded with a multitude of famous book awards (to illustrate the beguiler entity that the book really is), the back covered with praises from notoriously good sources ex New York Times.

4. How do you intend to communicate the content?

The main content of the book will be set-up like a How-To book, with dedicated sections to specific tasks alongside instructional pictures and numbered steps. However, the sections in which are illustrating my personal interests and tastes to spend spare time will be represented in any media but in the same manner as the rest of the book; organized and structured.

5. What content editing methods will you use?

After writing particular paragraphs, they will be revisited numerous times (3-6 at least) as other sections are developed, and everything will continuously be revsied and continuously integrated to the others. Once completed the book will be edited overall at least once to check flow.

6. What media are you using to make your imagery?

As I find everything easier to draw with my hands, but more professional looking when computerized, most imagery (like instructions pictures or cartoons) will be originally draw by hand, scanned, and edited using a computer program for darker, sharper lines. Colour is also added on the computer.

As for media that I will be adding that is not mine, this will come in a variety of styles (different cartoons) and will be appropriately cited.

7. Why are you making this particular book?

I will never be sick of this topic. The stories and advice I provide in this book are also now useless to me, as none of these approaches to skipping are practical after high school. However, the skills required to complete the tasks in this book are priceless, and will always come in handy for as long as you live. It seems a fitting confession to resign from the end of high school with this book in hand.

8. How does your choice of content suit your skills, experience, and interest?

The ability for extreme technical finesse (represented in the visual aesthetics and formal presentation of the content) with a daily laziness for boring ideas (the rejection of normal high school projects and guidelines) and a constant struggle for a thought unique to the world: it is this which propels my motivation to follow through. Skill is not always embodied inside technical precision, but can be commonly found within an idea that connects itself coherently to its environment.

Also, if you refer to the paragraph above, making sentences that are confusing and really mean nothing at all but are seemingly smrt, are another component of what I find interesting and will be encompassed in the book’s content.

9. Describe the style and look of your book and how it is linked to the content.

To reiterate, the book will have an extremely professional appearance, that of giving advice of the utmost importance. Both covers will be littered with praise and awards, the inside a manifestation of technical approaches to something commonly stereotyped as a lazy solution: skipping. This is just an extensively detailed examination of skipping. The entire aesthetics of the book give to the whole metaphor the book is there to represent: beguiling.


Elaine