Multi Genre Research Project

How to Get Started: Actually, you started this project in Unit 2 when you picked a web page or your favorite social media to analyze. Your topic will be derived from something that caught your interest during that assignment **THIS TOPIC BEING REFERRED TO IS FACEBOOK(SOCIAL MEDIA)**
• Step 1 – now that you have a topic, you need to pick the “genre” in which you intend to submit this project. You have four choices: 1. An illustrated argumentative researched paper with at least 6 to 8 pages of text after the images have been removed that culminates in a position you wish to take on your topic
The required pages should include:
-Six to eight full pages of text (after images have been removed) describing and discussing your topic and presenting your research and the conclusion you reached from that research
-Numerous illustrations no taller than 2 ½” – each illustration must have a title underneath it that beings “Figure xxxx: description”; the illustration must be thoroughly referred to and discussed in the body of the paper (no “padding” your paper). -Thorough discussion of the images and what they mean in relation to your topic and how they support your position (this discussion counts as part of the page length requirement)
-Numerous links to podcasts, web pages and videos that help describe your project and promote your position, along with appropriate discussion as to why you included those links.
-A clear conclusion that summarizes the project and restates your position and how you arrived at that position. § Additionally, as the final page and not part of the page count, present your Works Cited list (from your Blog pus any additional research since then)

2. A 18-24 slide PPT that demonstrates how you arrived at a position on your topic. The 18-24 slides should include:
-One image per slide
-One title per slide
-A title page
-A Table of Contents
-A Table of Images
-A slide describing the audience for this project – who should care and why
-Numerous links to podcasts, videos and web pages
-A slide stating your conclusion and summarizing how you arrived at it.
-A slide containing your Works Cited (this slide would not need an image)

3. A web-based presentation known as a “Prezi.”
Start here: http://prezi.com/learn/ o Create a “Prezi” about your topic that includes at list 18-24 distinct elements. Follow the general guidelines outlined above in the PPT section, including your Works Cited • Step 2 – begin the research 1. You must have at least eight “artifacts,” of which four must be accessed through Helmke Library and have well researched academic or scientific or medical content; o “artifacts” may include: § Articles from journals, newspapers and magazines § Books § Podcasts § Videos § Web pages § Posters, cartoons, advertising, display packaging. § Just about anything that can be used as “evidence” to support your “argument” o 2. Compile your Works Cited: this is a work in progress, but at the time of submission it must contain ten artifacts, properly cited, with descriptions of how you might use these artifacts in your project. Details for this project, along with a rubric, are in the next folder. Be sure to review the readings for citing help. An example of an annotated bib is in your textbook, on pp. 40809. • Step 3 – turn in a work-in-progress draft of your project to the Peer Review discussion for informal comments by your peers. This gives you a chance to see each other’s projects and to gauge how yours stacks up. • Step 5 – polish your project and turn it into the Assignment link, along with a one page Writer’s Memo (for extra credit)

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Writing Considerations – this needs to be a very well-focused presentation that results in a strong conclusion, solution or point of view about a small element of a larger topic. It is better to do a small project well, with lots of detail, than to do a large project poorly, rushing through the main points. For example, 20 slides about “Hunting” is not going to tell a viewer anything really useful about the subject, but 20 slides about the best dogs for bear hunting might. Academic Considerations – this is not meant to be a Wikipedia account or a high school book report, but rather a review of what you have discovered through your research and collection of artifacts. I expect to see good details about the background of any subject you pick, as well as an analysis of where it all is headed today. For example, if you do a project about tattoos or piecing, I expect to see a detailed review of the anthropological history as well as some analysis of why body art has made such a comeback today. If you do something about video games, I expect you to present some research about their harmful effects on children as well as any positive aspects you may find. Research Considerations – nearly all topics have been the subject of academic review in one form or the other. The Helmke Library database known as JSTOR is a great source of anthropological, historical and pop culture articles. The trick is to use keywords and not long phrases.