Research Plan- Hero Archetypes

The Power of Interlibrary Loan (Photo credit: Newton Free Library)

I turned in my research proposal on Wednesday, and I think it was okay.  Now I'm supposed to be coming up with a research plan (through 3/27), and I need to get going, because the annotated working bibliography is due on 3/13.  What I've done so far is kind of random:  searching the web for usable (i.e. scholarly) sites, a stab at finding journal articles, and a quick book search.  Even though The Fellowship of the Ring is not a superhero story, I thought that I had found a good book for the project in Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal, by Jeffrey J. Kripal, because of the way it was described, so I ordered it on interlibrary loan, but it's not very helpful as far as I can see (it's interesting, though, and I had to keep myself from just reading it anyway).  I'm going to get more organized, starting now. 
Here's my plan:
Week 4 (this week):  Search for book reviews in Academic Search Premier (Dr. Toffee showed us in class that you can click on book review in the document type menu and it'll sort them out for you).  I'll have to skim the reviews for now, and then I'll get at least three of the books from the library or ILL.  
Week 5 (2/18):  Assuming I get the books right away, I'll read their introductions and check the index and table of contents for stuff specifically about heroes and hero archetypes.  And, I'll do the MLA works cited entries and annotations to start my bib.
Week 6 (2/25):  Articles!  Have to find them, then read them, and that may take me through week 7 (3/4).  I want to do the entries and annotations as I go so that all I have to do in order to turn in the bib on 3/13 is double check the MLA rules.
The literature review draft is due on 3/19, so I also intend to pull out the sources for that as I'm compiling the bib.  By that time, I should have a good idea (I hope!) of whatever else I'll need to write the argument essay, which I will then try to locate, and that takes me up to 3/27 (week 9). 

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Annotated Bibliography-- How hard could it be?

Image via WikipediaWell, based on what I heard in class this last week, annotated bibliographies can be pretty hard to do.  Dr. Toffee said that she's had students in the past who made so many mistakes that they wound up owing her points.  So, I guess I'll have to be really careful with this one.  One of my books has come into the library, but I can't get over there until Friday.  The book is:

Brod, Harry.  The Making of Masculinities:  The New Men's Studies.  Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1987.  Print.  

I'm almost sure that this citation is correct, but I'll check it again when I'm putting the whole thing together.  From the contents listed in the catalog, this is a collection of articles about basic issues in men's studies, with the exception (of course) of the thing I'm most interested in, fatherhood (and "sonhood," which is not a word, I guess).  More about it later. 

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I'm Back!

Image via WikipediaI've been having computer problems lately, which hasn't helped my time management issues (to say the least!).  My comic book movie project is coming along, so far.  I've finished my annotated bibliography -- a big relief there, but I still need to read a lot of the material I listed, and that's taking most of my time right now.  I found an interesting article in the journal Offscreen (in their October 2006 issue, which was themed on disability representation in film), about how disability studies has been ignoring "fantastic" films in favor of realistic ones.  More on this later.

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