Project 1- The Research Blog
100 Points (10% of your course grade)
Unlike all the other major projects, the research journal/blog
will be ongoing throughout the semester and will be graded strictly on quantity
rather than the usual content and quality evaluation (do not take this as a
license to kill the English language, please).
You will get 5 points credit each for a maximum of 20 entries (each at
least 100 words long) at the rate of 1 or 2 per week over the semester.
Since you have to do more than one entry some weeks to meet
the 20 entry maximum, you may use the extra ones to discuss whatever you like,
as long as it has something to do with your research project. The other entries will be responses to the
prompts on the right. For example, the
first prompted entry should concern selecting a film and approach for your research,
and the next should see you discussing your critical model. You may use whatever blog host you prefer (I
use blogspot.com), and you must post
your url on Blackboard no later than week 2.
Follow the instructions in the “Read this first” message in the Project
1 forum.
On May 8, you will submit a hard copy of your blog that
follows the paper specifications (MLA) in the syllabus. Please keep all of this in one MSWord
word processing file. This will work
better if you compose your posts in Word rather than directly to the blog,
since Word will give you the word count for each entry (type this at the end of
each entry in the file; you do not need to include it in your published
blog). ). Do NOT use a separate page for each entry;
just skip a line at the end of each one and start the next.
Keep in mind that you cannot work ahead or put this off and
write all of your entries at once, since your progress will be checked every
other Friday, starting with week 2.
A final note: Because
the writing in this project will not be peer reviewed or revised, it does not
count toward the 5000-word minimum requirement for the course.
Prompts
1.
Discuss your initial thoughts on your film and
approach.
2.
Explain your critical model, as you understand it.
3.
What have you found in a scene (using the
model)?
4.
Figure out a research schedule through 3/27.
5.
Discuss your current working thesis.
6.
Describe one of your sources.
7.
Describe one of your sources.
8.
What is your latest working thesis?
9.
What is the most important source you have found?
10. What
problems have you encountered in writing your draft?
11. What
did you get out of the peer review?
12. How
well do you think your research paper turned out?
13. What
would you do differently?
The other 7 entries are up to you as to when you write and what you
write about.
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