Disability in Literature and Culture
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Disability in Literature and Culture
Project Proposal
Writing Project Two
Disability in Literature and Culture
Instructions
Complete each of the three sections below. Make sure you provide as much detail as possible, as the more I can respond to the better off you will be in getting started.
Academic Essay Discussion
The first thing you need to do is to decide where to start.You can pick any essay after the first Writing Project that you want to work with (Davis, Couser, Hall, or Price–if you want to work with an older text you must contact me first), but the most important thing is that you start with a small part of whichever text you pick–don’t try to begin with something like “disability” as your starting point here. Look for a single quote that you can point to for unpacking.
Remember that you do not need to know exactly where you’re going to take this, only that you have a specific interest in the material–and it should be reasonably complex or you
should be trying to make it complex.We’re not here to suggest that treating disabled individuals as “tiny tims” is bad–that would be too intellectually boring.
Once you have chosen a starting point, answer a few questions here for me.
Which text are you going to start with?
What quote will you be using to get your discussion going? (Quote it here.)
Why is this an interesting place that you want to begin with? What is it that you feel would be worth building on here? What is complex and exciting for you?
External Material Discussion
Tell me some about the material you’re bringing in from outside the class’s texts The
second aspect you include should be the complement of your first; whatever idea you started with, your chosen external material should relate to it in some fashion–don’t begin by
talking about disability in photography and then start talking about a book you read, or at least make sure you have a good plan there (a book about photography maybe?). Just like the material above, this should begin with a single moment or idea that you want to work through.
Start somewhere small, as you can always expand. Cutting things down is far more difficult.
Here too I want you to answer a few questions for me.
What are you going to bring in second from outside the class?
What part of this thing will you be using to get your discussion going? (Be specific.)
Why is this potentially useful content in conversation with your first text? What do you think you might find here, and why might that be worthwhile?
Drafting a Question
Once you have your two sources together, you will want to put together a question to help guide your work.To do this, a little planning can help, as a good question should point toward learning something new, not just regurgitating information you already know.
You will need a summary of what you’re bringing from each of the texts as well as the
texts’ names.
You need some kind of sense of what you perceive the relationship between the two texts to be–are you expanding on an existing idea? Challenging it? Shifting it to a new region of investigation?
You need a question that indicates a desire to learn something, not just to show
something off.This means avoiding providing examples, showing an idea, or just reading a text through a lens. Some helpful verbs are: challenge, alter, question, expand, improve,
Let’s work through an example!
Imagine that I am going to write on Avengers: Endgame for one text and that I am going to use an essay on superhero stories (Klock’s “The Revisionary Superhero Narrative”–yeah, I know we’re not writing about superheroes in this class, but this is an example for style, not content) for my academic piece. I would need to have a summary of which parts I want to use from each text to start, so I might begin with that.
– Avengers: Endgame ,Thor’s “comedic” decline
“The Revisionary Superhero Narrative”, the “corrective” revision of character
I would also need some kind of direction, so I would be trying to ask myself what I hope to achieve in putting these together. Am I trying to deepen an understanding of the film? Am I
trying to challenge an idea put forth by the article? I don’t have to know for certain, but a starting point is always strong.
I hope to test the “corrective” revision that Klock proposes
These would help me get to a question:
How does Thor’s comic turn in challenge Klock’s theory
about the “corrective” focus of revision in superhero stories?
I don’t yet know the answer, and in trying to answer it I hope to maybe alter part of what it is that Klock is suggesting in his article.
This is what I want you to try to do yourself. I’ve put some guides in the box below to help you out.