Length: ~2250-3000-words
Formatting/Citations: MLA or Chicago
TOPIC:
Must be grounded in any one text or series of texts discussed in LCS-456. This includes Hamid – Exit West, Knausgaard – Book 1 , Ferrante – My brillant friend part one , Wallace Infinite Jest, “The Rise and Fall of the Videophone”, Weinstein – The Cartographers or Moksha, Brooker – Fifteen Million Merits, Bois – 17776, Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo, and Reed – S-Town. Your research topic, while grounded in any assigned LCS-456 text(s), can address any researchable component of the above texts and their larger literary, technological, political, and/or cultural implications.
OBJECTIVE:
1. Frame the scope, stakes, and terms of research
2. Situate the text/author/movement/medium of focus within a larger body of research and scholarly discussion
3. Situate your own argument(s) and evaluation(s) within said scholarly discussion
4. Frame the broader implications of your contributions outside academic circles
STAGE 1: Preliminary research and brainstorming
STAGE 2: Developing a research question and thesis
STAGE 3: Doing the research
STAGE 4: Writing the paper
STAGE 5: Revisions
