Thursday, October 20: First five pages
Your first five pages will be due on Thursday, October 20. You will share your work with me via Google Docs. I will provide instructions in class on how to use this platform and it will be important that you follow this advise closely. What I am looking for in this first chunk/block of text is that you’re identifying and engaging with a field conversation. I’m not interested in a completely coherent draft as much as I am in a document that has the potential to expand and grow into a larger project. Show me that you are engaging with texts and that you’re starting to put them in relation with one another.
Grading:
Locating a field conversation: 30%
Putting texts in relation to one another: 20%
Meta-reflection on where you are in your research process (an extra page, this may also be re-posted on your blog): 20%
Google Docs: 10%
MLA/APA/Chicago: 10%
Five pages aka 1500 to 1800 hundred words: 10%
Total: 100%
Thursday, October 6: Proposal
Compose a 250-word proposal about your research topic outlining a plan for research. What I mean by a plan is that I want you to articulate where you will begin your research (down to what books, databases, and journals you will start looking) and how you think you will begin to sort this material. What are you looking for in your first phase of research? Where do you hope to be in three weeks? Name three initial sources and include this in MLA reference format (for help see http://owl.purdue.edu or a site such as http://www.easybib.com).
Please hand this in to me at ridolfo@gmail.com. Please be sure to include the course number and your last name in the e-mail subject header.