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After the peer review, I wound up somewhere in between the two.
Showing posts with label Thesis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thesis. Show all posts
Monday, September 3, 2012
Picking a Thesis the Hard Way
After the peer review, I wound up somewhere in between the two.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Another Thought about Another Writer
Image via WikipediaI've spent the last few minutes trying to decompress from finishing my paper, and I can tell that I'm probably not going to get to sleep just yet (only one class today, at 12:30PM, so I may get a nap before then). I was thinking about the peer review I got on my draft (a bunch of useless, single-word answers to analytic questions), which made me think about the paper I reviewed. The guy who wrote it (and who reviewed my draft) always shows up to class, but he doesn't take any notes, and his draft was only around 5 pages long. It made mine look like a masterpiece -- his thesis made no sense (the topic was sustainability) and wasn't arguable, as far as I could see. After that was introduced, if you can call what he had an introduction, he had a bunch of random quotations (from people he didn't introduce), and he didn't discuss them at all, just went on to making some points-- or trying to. It made me crazy: after 8 weeks of researching and thinking and writing, this was the best he could do? It was supposed to be a second or third draft, but it barely qualified as prewriting. How does he think he's going to pass the course. From now on, every time I think that I'm getting obsessive about school, I am going to remember him as the perfect example of how not to succeed.
Friday, March 25, 2011
What's my thesis?
Image via WikipediaHere it is, at least the one I'm working with for my draft:The presentation of physical difference in comic-book superhero films closely parallels the lived experiences of people with disabilities.
I'd like to make it harder-edged, but I'm starting my draft today, and I think this will work. Dr. Toffee says that we don't need to do an outline unless that's the way we work best, but she also says that we should try to break down our draft into sections and start wherever we think we have the most stuff ready to go. For me, I guess, that would be the section where I go over the disability studies sources (she calls this "a lit survey").
So, in this section, I need to explain the d/s perspective and what they call the "social model" of disability, which has to do with identity and how the way people with physical and mental differences are seen by the larger, non-disabled population. Since almost everything man-made is designed for a pretty narrow range of people's sizes, shapes, and abilities, the disabled have to deal with obstacles that their surroundings present. There is also a cultural model, which is very similar, and I'm not sure yet which one is better for my project. I have a lot more sources on the social model, and that may be the deciding factor.
Incidentally, the superhero picture at the top of this post is ironic, in case you were wondering-- it reminded me of a tee shirt I saw on a website that sells disability-themed message shirts.
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