Tips for Your I-Search Paper: View this paper as a defense of your narrative and your research process. You are writing this paper to prove the amount of effort you put in to learn all you could about your time period and to let me know that your narrative is based on real factual information.
- Review the sample paper.
- Make sure each section flows and are connected to one another. It should read like one paper not 3 different papers.
- The first section should give us a really good idea of what you knew about your time period prior to research. Your last section should reveal how much more you've learned. We should see a progression. If you haven't learned anything, you didn't do this project correctly.
- The second section is where you can air your grievances. What did you like about the process? What didn't you like? What did you find easy? What did you find hard? How was the group process?
- The last section's goal is to show me the ways in which you managed to use the information you learned from 10 different sources in your narrative. Discuss similar sources in the same paragraph. For instance, if you used two different sources to learn about what the Gulf War was like, talk about those two sources in the same paragraph, and then talk about the sources that provided you with information on popular culture in the same paragraph, etc.
- Be sure to provide specific information from each source and to properly cite them in your piece.
- Don't just give me the information you learned. Explain how it influenced what you wrote in your narrative.
- INCLUDE A WORKS CITED PAGE. I need to know which sources you specifically used in your narrative. If you used most of the sources your group collected, all you'll have to do is copy and paste from your annotated bib (citation only/don't copy the description).
Plans for Next Week
Check the Revision Project Assignment Sheet for instructions on your final project. You will be revising and expanding a previously written paper for your final project. If you choose to revise a paper from the first or second project, you could potentially earn a higher score than your original. If you like the scores you received on your first two projects, I would advise you to revise and expand your last project. If you missed class and are confused, you should come see me Tuesday in the Bridge. If you're not sure where to go with your revision, you should see me Tuesday in the Bridge. If you're worried about where your grade is, you should see me Tuesday in The Bridge.
Extra Credit Opportunity
If you review the historical narrative assignment sheet, you will remember there was an extra credit project offered. You must have that completed by Thursday, May 7th. You will be informally presenting this to the class. You're just going to show us what you created and explain how it relates to your narrative. You will also receive extra credit just for attending class on Thursday. You can receive up to 75 points extra credit by attending class on Thursday and presenting a visual piece.
Homework
- Rough Draft of I-Search Paper (due tomorrow Friday, May 1st) (I will not provide feedback for any papers I do not receive on the due date)
- Extra Credit Visual Piece (due Thursday, May 7th)
- Final Draft of Historical Narrative and I-Search Paper (due Friday, May 8th)
- Revision Project (due Monday, May 11th)
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