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.