Assignment
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.