Tuesday, January 17, 2017
In today’s class, Mr. Rivers started it off with announcing that some seats were going to be changed. However, there were few seat changes and they were quite simple. After this, Mr. Rivers proceeded to break down the goals of today’s class. He explained they were to identify the purpose of a piece of research writing and to find preliminary research as a means of evaluating personal writing goals. Once Mr. Rivers explained this, he jumped to the next slide of one-sentence paper proposals. What these encompass are deliberate starting points to research papers that help establish communities (e.g. relationships with particular scholars). Altogether, a one-sentence paper proposal is a sentence that identifies the paper’s academic lens, research topic, and the film it will utilize to ultimately make its explicit purpose. Mr. Rivers gave a basic outline of one and exemplified it close to madlibs. The first example he gave was:
“A philosophy scholar writes a paper about virtual reality that uses evidence from Tron: Legacy to advocate the importance of technology’s influence on humanity.”
After the class discussed this example, Mr. Rivers summarized the point of a one-sentence paper proposal is to give direction. Once Mr. Rivers finished explaining the point of what a one-sentence paper proposal is, he handed out cards to each group with an academic lens on it. With this, each group would read the beginning of the senior paper that focused on this subject in order to make a one-sentence paper proposal based off of it. After this was completed, Mr. Rivers directed the class to a slideshow comprised of slides that would have students craft their own one-sentence paper proposals. For the remainder of class, each student collaborated with their group or independently to come up with their own one-sentence paper proposals.
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