What experience do you have with writing a research paper? If you’ve written one before, did you love the process of writing the paper? Did you hate the process of writing it? Were you maybe proud of the paper (and yourself) once you finished it even though you found the process of writing it challenging? Feel free to respond to any of the questions above that resonate with you and to share anything else you’d like to share regarding your experience in writing a research paper. Feel free to include some practical tips you’ve learned for how to write a research paper, as well. Your response should be four to seven sentences long.

In “One Step Towards Equality…”, Chau critiques movies like Crazy Rich Asians and TV shows like Fresh Off the Boat for reinforcing Asian stereotypes, but Constance Wu (or Jessica Huang), the “tiger mom” on Fresh Off the Boat states that people should celebrate how historic it is that there are movies and TV shows with all-Asian casts. Do you feel like sometimes arguments over identity and representation can be too much or overblown? In other words, are the arguments contextualized well enough and does being highly critical sometimes detract from the progress that has been made in regard to representation of different ethnic groups/races in American media? Your response should be at least four sentences long.

Please share a link to the text that you will analyze for the second paper for this class. I’ve posted four text options under the “Important Links” section of this website.

Please share a link to a text that you might like to analyze here. Briefly describe why you chose this text and why you think it might be interesting to analyze. Your response should be three to five sentences long.