So the Research Project is due May 3. Let’s revisit the prompt and talk about the things you should have in order soon:
- By this point you should have a good research question that is direct, answerable, rich, and focused enough to eventually develop a thesis in response. You don’t need your thesis immediately, but by the time you have a full draft you should have a decent thesis. By the time you can revise (I am hoping you have time to revise), you should be reading with a central argument (i.e., thesis) that the paper makes.
- Have at least 5 sources that help you address a research question. These sources should have been read closely. The Reflective Annotated Bibliography is a great assignment to help you understand your sources better and how to use them to make an argument. When you have a central argument, these sources are used to support claims you make that help make that argument. Make sure you have some academic sources as part of this (see here: Reflective Annotated Bibliography – ENG 2100: Writing I, Spring 2021 (cuny.edu)).
- Once you have a good idea for your thesis, make sure each paragraph and each use of a source always relates back to what your central argument is for the paper.
- Integrate the references to your sources with your own voice as a writer (more on that soon).
- Make sure you have a documentation style picked out, think about conventions of research writing discussed in class, and try to apply them whenever writing with sources and making claims based on your research.
- Think about important concepts we have gone over throughout the semester: organizing your argument well, joining claims to evidence, paying attention to style (word choice, sentence type variety, sentence length variety, using punctuation rhetorically, sentence coherence, etc.), paragraphing, etc.
Task
In a comment below, tell me your plan for today, tomorrow, and every day until May 3 for what you will be doing to work on your research project.
Today, complete an outline for the research paper and decide on sources that I’ll will be using in the research paper.
Apr 29, begin writing the paper.
Apr 30, continue working on the paper, aiming to complete atleast 2 pages.
May 1st, continue working on the paper with goal of 3 – 4 pages.
May 2nd, complete writing, and begin review and revise.
May 3rd, make finish adjustments and turn in.
Today April 29th: Finish up Learning modules, this is my last one.
April 30th: Start planning for the paper
May 1st: start paper
May 2nd: continue paper
May 3rd: Finish up the paper and turn in.
Hopefully this goes as I planned it!
Today: Finish gathering sources for the paper.
April 30th: Think about and gather ideas for each paragraph.
May 1st: Kick off my essay.
May 2nd: Continue writing the other half of the paper.
May 3rd: Contemplate and adjust paper before turning in.
Today: Finish choosing sources for the paper
May 1: Outline a structure for the paper and get started on the introduction
May 2: Continue to write the paper
May 3: Finish the paper and revise before submission
Well obviously this is late and so here’s my plan for the next couple days:
May 20th: complete rhetorical analysis
May 21st: finalizes source list
May 22nd: Write half of paper
May 23rd: Finish Paper
May24th: Revise and submit
May 22nd: start and finish paper.
May 24th : Finish reflection paper and do some learning modules.
May 24th-Figure out question for Research project
May 22nd-Complete missing rhetorical analysis
May 23rd-Complete Final reflection and continue working on research project
May24th-Complete Research project and hand in