Chapter Two - "Master of Scribes"
Raid Two - Research Proposal
Raid Three - Annotated Bibliography
Raid Four - Researched Argument
Chapter Overview
Now that you are acquainted with Composition, it is time to engage in a much larger adventure. As you progress through Chapter Two - "Master of Scribes," you will work on your ability as a player to engage in difficult discourse, fine tune your skills of argumentation, learn about the powers of research, and find your voice in a sustained work. This will not be easy, and each player will be pushed to discover new and interesting ideas related to their personal raids. Do not lose your momentum, players; the adventures have only just begun...
Raid Two - Research Proposal
This raid requires you to shift from reflection of the individual to that of a social and cultural issue important to you. Before you start researching, you should provide a proposal for a sustained project that explores a problem that is affecting you and/or people around you. You will script and record a video that details the reasons for choosing this problem, planned method of research and writing, and the ultimate purpose for your Researched Essay (Raid Four). Be sure to cover your topic, your call to action, your potential sources and problems, and the significance of the proposed project. This video should include a preliminary Works Cited page, image credits, and a draft of the script being used for the video. The video itself should be between two and five minutes in length.
Raid Instructions
We started with the question: "What are you passionate about?" Now, you are going to take your passion--refined through your Mystory--and apply it to a problem that affects you, your community (people you know), and something that has a complicated history; i.e., not something that can be fixed by setting your oven to self clean. This should be a project that you are passionate about which has multiple points of inquiry. Your research will cover the history of the issue, both personal and community oriented, its perceived identity in the public and entertainment, its effect on you personally, and the ideas that surround it. These points of inquiry are summed up in four institutions: Family, History, Mythology, and Philosophy. Your proposal is an opportunity to think of a problem and articulate why you want to research it to implement change. It should be something personal and greatly impactful on your life in some way.
This raid is divided into two parts, which is detailed below:
The script should be placed in a GoogleDoc in Drive under the "Raid Two" folder. Name it: "Last Name - Avatar Name - Specialization - Raid Two"
The video should be uploaded to Behance. To upload, click on Share in Spark, then "embed." Copy this text into the "embed" feature on Behance. If it is from Premiere, upload to Youtube, and then embed. Make sure you add it to the team page under the "discoverability" tab. (for more information on uploading to Behance, check the game guide > help > technology page on this site or the video at the bottom of the Journey Log page.
Raid Instructions
We started with the question: "What are you passionate about?" Now, you are going to take your passion--refined through your Mystory--and apply it to a problem that affects you, your community (people you know), and something that has a complicated history; i.e., not something that can be fixed by setting your oven to self clean. This should be a project that you are passionate about which has multiple points of inquiry. Your research will cover the history of the issue, both personal and community oriented, its perceived identity in the public and entertainment, its effect on you personally, and the ideas that surround it. These points of inquiry are summed up in four institutions: Family, History, Mythology, and Philosophy. Your proposal is an opportunity to think of a problem and articulate why you want to research it to implement change. It should be something personal and greatly impactful on your life in some way.
This raid is divided into two parts, which is detailed below:
- First, write a rough script between One and Two full pages (250 - 500 words). Do not write more than 500 words. This should be a combination of expanded bullet points and written paragraphs. Think of it as a script you are going to read.
- You should have at least two references to your issue and at least one image to frame it into something visual. (Include links or works cited reference at the bottom of the script)
- Address the following:
- Give a brief explanation of the problem?
- How does the problem directly affect you or someone in your community/family? (Should be a narrative)
- How does this problem relate to your passion?
- If you could institute a change--no matter how big or small--what would it be?
- Then, make either a Spark video or Premiere composition reading or highlighting the points in your script. You may or may not want to read from your script. Remember to edit the video.
- Warrior - Increase proposal minimum from 250 to 350; maximum from 350 - 600. Also, include a substantial answer to the following: What reading so far in the class has helped you think about this problem and why?
- Bard - Write a personal narrative of how you see influences in your everyday or why you are interested in the problem directly. This should be a well-thought out narrative with images and video if needed.
- Ranger - Provide at least four references to the issue (instead of two) where you are citing news articles or journals.
- Mage - In the video, include at least four images, include a title card (intro text), include your works cited as an outro card, and at least one screenshot of one of your articles should appear in the video.
The script should be placed in a GoogleDoc in Drive under the "Raid Two" folder. Name it: "Last Name - Avatar Name - Specialization - Raid Two"
The video should be uploaded to Behance. To upload, click on Share in Spark, then "embed." Copy this text into the "embed" feature on Behance. If it is from Premiere, upload to Youtube, and then embed. Make sure you add it to the team page under the "discoverability" tab. (for more information on uploading to Behance, check the game guide > help > technology page on this site or the video at the bottom of the Journey Log page.
Due: February 1st
Raid Three: Annotated Bibliography
This Raid is the next step towards writing Raid Four's Konsult. You will be focussing on your research topic with the goal to find as many sources as you can that will further your understanding and provide new and interesting questions for your topic. You will be engaging in books, journal articles, videos, and pop culture articles from different viewpoints to shape your analysis.
Raid Instructions
After doing extensive research you must select a total of Six sources that you will use for your Konsult (Raid Four). These sources should be critically read and vetted before selecting for the annotated bibliography. You may only have two sources that are primary sources or popular news articles/videos. Four of these articles must be peer-reviewed journal articles and/or from reliable academic sources. Once all six have been acquired and read, please do the following for each article:
Things to consider:
Remember, to fully complete the Konsult, you need articles that will engage with the four institutions: Family, History, Mythology, and Philosophy. You should also represent multiple sides of the argument to give a full breadth of the topic you are researching. You may find it difficult to choose just six for this raid, but if you want feedback, you can include more. The final project will require much more research.
Remember to write the document in MLA8 (or APA/Chicago) format and provide the full citation. In addition to this task, also complete the following based on your classification/specialization:
Annotated Bib Example: HERE
- Write out full MLA8 citation (or citation style of your choice), listed in alphabetical order by author's last name. (PurdueOwl)
- Write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) summarizing the article's main points.
- List out at least four key terms, their importance to the argument, and four direct quotes with in-text citation notation (not block quotes).
- Write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) explaining the author's ethos, why you chose this piece, and how this source contributes to your Konsult.
Things to consider:
Remember, to fully complete the Konsult, you need articles that will engage with the four institutions: Family, History, Mythology, and Philosophy. You should also represent multiple sides of the argument to give a full breadth of the topic you are researching. You may find it difficult to choose just six for this raid, but if you want feedback, you can include more. The final project will require much more research.
Remember to write the document in MLA8 (or APA/Chicago) format and provide the full citation. In addition to this task, also complete the following based on your classification/specialization:
- Warrior: Each summary paragraph (on the main points of the argument) should be at least 200 words.
- Ranger: Include a Youtube video as the seventh source.
- Bard: Include an extra primary source to total of seven sources.
- Mage: Your video needs to be between two and four minutes long with all full citations listed in text.
Annotated Bib Example: HERE
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Due: Tuesday, February 20 at 11:59pm
Raid Four: Research Guided Essay
The Konsult
This raid requires you to practice your rhetorical knowledge and develop an extended researched argument using multimodal composition strategies. Your Konsult will engage in both primary and secondary research within the following heuristics: Family, Mythology, History, and Philosophy. The Konsult will be a large multimodal composition that will examine the full breadth of an issue and expands on the understanding of it through the use of rhetorical analysis. You, as researcher and author, set the intended audience for this raid. The target audience could be a general and diverse audience, or a specific community dealing with this issue, so to be persuasive and effective it is necessary to support your claims with evidence from a variety of sources. Remember to incorporate possible objections to your argument (i.e., rebuttals to those objections) with a goal of helping to mediate opposing sides of an issue (rather than offer mere opinions). The goal is not to achieve consensus, but to put forth a well-reasoned and well-supported argument that helps your audience move toward understanding, but also possible action.
Raid InstructionNow that you have your proposal and annotated bibliography done (raids two and three), you are now to synthesize your research into the larger Konsult project. Your research and writing needs to consider the four institutions (heuristics): Family, Mythology, History, and Philosophy. You will develop primary sources (surveys, interviews, or focus groups) to support your findings in the secondary sources. Since this researched problem affects a real audience, you need to be comprehensive and deliberate with your writing while also weaving in your personal narratives. In a 2000 - 3000 word multimodal text, you need to do the following:
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Raid Requirements |
Approaching the Institutions |
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Primary Research Requirements:
For the primary research in the Konsult, please do the following:
Interview: You should quote at least once from the interview you conducted with an informed expert in the area.
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Focus Group: You should have at least two quotes from a focus group conducted with at least four people.
Also, make sure you have a survey:
The survey should have a minimum of five questions and you need to represent data in two ways: 1 chart (of your choice) that shows responses (refer to it as a "figure" in the essay); and refer to responses with percentages.
You may want include video from the interview/focus group (if you got permission), sound bites, or larger quotes.
Surveys can be done via GoogleForms or SurveyMonkey.
Interview: You should quote at least once from the interview you conducted with an informed expert in the area.
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Focus Group: You should have at least two quotes from a focus group conducted with at least four people.
Also, make sure you have a survey:
The survey should have a minimum of five questions and you need to represent data in two ways: 1 chart (of your choice) that shows responses (refer to it as a "figure" in the essay); and refer to responses with percentages.
You may want include video from the interview/focus group (if you got permission), sound bites, or larger quotes.
Surveys can be done via GoogleForms or SurveyMonkey.
Organizing the Konsult
This will not be a traditional essay. You are expected to explore your and other personal narratives and engage with both primary and secondary research to address the larger Konsult project. There are several ways in which you can organize your Konsult:
- Narrative Driven (Family): Using the power of storytelling, you will weave your or another narrative throughout the four institutions to bind them together. This will invoke pathos to invoke the reader to want to make a change.
- Media/Entertainment Driven (Mythology): Using popular news and media sources, you will invoke the reader through popular perceptions and iterations of the issue. This can pull at nostalgia or play the audience into a reversal of information to give them the real story (kairos and pathos driven).
- Historiography (History): Using a logocentric argument, you will present histories (multiple threads of history) to explain how this problem came to be. This will show how the issue has been influenced, perpetuated, and possibly addressed throughout its history.
- Rhetorical/Philosophical (Philosophy): Using your understanding of the rhetorical situation and the principles of rhetoric, you will pursue a deeper understanding of your issue and guide your audience through a rhetorical and/or philosophical journey of your issue. This will require a greater understanding of western/eastern culture and thought.
Specializations:
Warrior: The entire composition should be at least 2500 words, put entire Konsult into Spark (can use multiple Spark pages and link them together through buttons), and write a 200 word reflection on the drafting process (put at the bottom of your GoogleDoc).
Ranger: Have a total of 15 sources (combined). Use Weebly to represent your Konsult and have a separate page for your works cited with hyperlinks if possible. Make sure to use the spacer, text, title, divider, and other aspects of Weebly to represent the Konsult.
Bard: Use Weebly to represent your Konsult. Make sure to have at least one chart to represent your survey data, emphasize the narrative by changing the color of the text, and make sure you have extra images and videos to represent the Mythology/Family sections.
Mage: Use Wordpress to represent your Konsult. Make sure everything is organized, you have separate sections on the site for each institution, and hyperlink EVERYTHING possible. This should be as web friendly as possible with plenty of hyperlinks, citations, images, and videos.
Ranger: Have a total of 15 sources (combined). Use Weebly to represent your Konsult and have a separate page for your works cited with hyperlinks if possible. Make sure to use the spacer, text, title, divider, and other aspects of Weebly to represent the Konsult.
Bard: Use Weebly to represent your Konsult. Make sure to have at least one chart to represent your survey data, emphasize the narrative by changing the color of the text, and make sure you have extra images and videos to represent the Mythology/Family sections.
Mage: Use Wordpress to represent your Konsult. Make sure everything is organized, you have separate sections on the site for each institution, and hyperlink EVERYTHING possible. This should be as web friendly as possible with plenty of hyperlinks, citations, images, and videos.
Important Dates:
First Peer Review: March 1
Second Peer Review: March 8
Third Peer Review/Draft to Instructor: March 15
Raid Four Due: March 27
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For Draft 2: Make revisions based on peer review comments, then continue writing until you have about 1000 words. This will likely be the introduction and two institutions or an institution and personal narrative. The second draft is like a "half draft." Make sure you are integrating quotes and do your best to integrate your interviews/focus groups.
For Draft 3: This should be a close to finished full draft. You should have all of your institutions represented and both pieces of primary research done. This draft is also going to the instructor for review.
For Draft 3: This should be a close to finished full draft. You should have all of your institutions represented and both pieces of primary research done. This draft is also going to the instructor for review.
Useful Tomes:
Klein and Shackelford - Beyond Black on White | |
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