The topic is on the film sound of freedom and how its controversies addresses academic interests. Since interested in human trafficking and its portrayal in media, a research paper could explore the impact of media representations on public perception and understanding of human trafficking.
Writing Project #1: How is Academic and/ or Creative Media Useful to Me and My Disciplinary Community?
Overview
So far, we have been considering questions about the quality of how writers enter into conversations. We have been looking at models of evaluations, such as “The Boldness of Roxane Gay’s Hunger,” and “Netflix’s Gentefied is the Best American TV Show about Gentrification.” In looking at these texts we’ve discussed how the authors synthesize ideas from a conversation, create criteria for evaluating texts, and make judgments about texts through the use of evidence. As we discussed, evaluative writing is all around us: any time we read Amazon reviews of a product online, read Yelp or Google reviews for services in the community, or read a book or movie review, we are looking to see what users or viewers think about a particular product / service in order to determine if we want to try it. Often in academic writing, evaluations or reviews are used to help researchers and teachers know if reading a particular book or article will be a good use of their time or if a product or new technology can be helpful to their students or their research. Reviews help readers to be efficient and effective with their time, money, and mental energy. What expertise do you have that can be valuable to an audience?
Inquiry and Purpose
For your review, you have three options. As you consider which choice you will write about, think about something you are an expert in but also want to know more about. Try to choose the option that will both challenge you AND lead you best to your academic goals. Your options are to
evaluate an academic text, such as a TED talk in a discipline you are interested in (here is a good list organized by discipline: https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studiesLinks to an external site.), or evaluate a new technology for your discipline.
Evaluate a presentation by an academic speaker on campus; an academic performance, such as a play or a musical event or a creative writing reading; or other kind of academic performance.
Synthesize at least three evaluations (plus your own evaluation) of a popular performance, such as a movie, a musical band / song / music video, television show, a book, etc
What I Will Look For
When I read your papers, I will look to see if you
Have found a topic that is relevant and interesting to you that also addresses your academic interests
Have considered your audience’s needs in your purpose and inquiry
Have in some ways incorporated the key elements of the evaluation genre (or have thoughtfully challenged or transformed those key elements)
Have demonstrated some knowledge of the conversation about this text or technology through the use of outside sources
Have incorporated your own voice and opinions about the evaluated text in a respectful but knowledgeable way.
Specifications: 1500-1800 words, 1 core source to conduct the evaluation on, 3 sources with 1 being a peer reviewed journal article if not just make sure they are not Dictionaries, encyclopedias, Wikipedia, and Blogs which do not count for the 4 sources. MLA citation.
Make sure the sources used are not blogs, etc. make sure they are well know newspapers/ news articles .
Genre Elements
