Juliana Oelkers 1/17/17

Today we started of class by logging into our computers, as usual. Then we got right into the objectives for the period. One objective was to identify the purpose of a piece of research writing. Our other objective was to find research as a means of evaluating writing goals. To practice these objectives we wrote once sentence proposals, which are meant to combine the intention and the goal of our paper into one sentence. This sentence also establishes community and helps to identify an audience. Its important to note that the goal of the essay could and should change as research is collected.

The format of the sentence is: A(n) academic lens scholar writes a paper about research topic that uses evidence from film to purpose. Each individual group was assigned an academic lens and we had to construct a paper proposal using it. My group got assigned history and our research topic was slavery so our proposal was: A history scholar writes a paper about slavery that uses evidence from Django Unchained to expose the lack of teaching in the school system in regards to slavery. Finally, each student wrote three of their own sentences and put them in the class power-point, where each academic lens had its own slide. The three academic lenses I chose were criminal justice, history, and psychology. Overall the proposal sentences were very efficient in helping focus our goals for our senior papers.