montclair.instructure.com Low Battery Your Mac will sleep soon unless plugged into a power outlet. The Research Narrative -- Middle Draft New Appointment Start Page Submission Detalls Grade: Incomplete (0 pts possible) Graded Anonymously: no Assigned Peer Reviews None Assigned Comments: Because you missed the deadline, this assignment will be graded "Incomplete". You have 48 hours from the time of the original deadline to submit the assignment and have this grade changed to complete. Taylor Zaccario, Apr 4 at 1:23pm SPRING 2024 Account Home Announcements Syllabus Dashboard Courses Modules Assignments Calendar Grades a 11 Inbox Zoom People Library Resources History O Follett Follett Discover ? Help Due Apr 4 by 9:50am Points 0 Submitting a file upload Writing Project #3: The Research Narrative This essay, sometimes called "The Documented Narrative", combines elements of the personal narrative with the research paper. This project places your own personal experiences into a larger social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context. Using the Personal Narrative as a jumping off point, you will view your life as being part of a universal experience and uncover how you are influenced and inspired by the world around you. Word count: 1,000-1,500. Assignment: In the Personal Narrative, you wrote about your own setback story and reflected on how that experience taught you an important lesson about yourself, helping to shape you as a person. In the Research Narrative, you will look at the setback story of a public figure, someone YOU admire and find inspirational. Through research, find a setback story in that person's own life. You will look closely at how this person dealt with failure and consider how external forces may have contributed to that setback. By "external forces", I mean cultural, social, political, historical, or economic. Were there gender or racial biases at work against them? Was the institution or industry in which they tried to succeed opposed to their goals? What was going on politically in the country that may have impeded their success? Sometimes failure has little to do with the person and more to do with the world around them. Your research should be concerned with not only identifying their setback story but placing it into a sociocultural and/or sociopolitical context. For example, if I chose to write about actor Key Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once), my research might probe into the racial biases and the lack of roles for Asian actors in the 80s & 90s in Hollywood. This sociocultural context may have played a part in his setback story. I would want to tell his setback story, place it against this larger social/political/cultural context, and then draw inspiration and/or lessons from how he dealt with his setbacks. You need to do the same: find inspiration/lesson(s) in the way(s) your chosen individual dealt with failure. How are YOU inspired by the way this public figure reacted to setbacks in the face of those external forces? What lessons can you draw from them? How might you apply these lessons to your own future setbacks? The individual you choose must be someone in the public eye (someone you can research in depth). They can be from any profession or industry (actor, musician, writer, athlete, businessperson, chef, inventor, activist, etc.) They can be living or passed on. You can choose a figure from any point in history. It's most important to choose someone you are genuinely interested in. You do not need to know their setback story beforehand, but Course Evaluations F montclair.instructure.com è Low Battery Your Mac will sleep soon unless plugged into a power outlet. The Research Narrative -- Middle Draft New Appointment Start Page SPRING 2024 Account Home Announcements Dashboard Syllabus Courses Modules Assignments Calendar 11 Inbox Grades 9 Zoom People Library Resources Course Evaluations History O Follett Follett Discover ? Help Strong essays will: . Combine both the storytelling techniques learned during Writing Project #2 with good research practices discussed during the drafting of Writing Project #3. · Explore the sociopolitical and sociocultural background/context. · Analyze the public figure's actions and decisions, and then draw meaning and inspiration from them. · Support research using credible sources. · Quote, paraphrase, and summarize from credible sources. · Include proper MLA citations, including a Works Cited page and in-text citations. What to Avoid: . This is NOT a biographical essay. You are not telling the totality of the person's life. You are focusing on a single experience from their life. . This is NOT a compare-and-contrast essay. You may use your personal narrative as a point of reference, but you are not merely comparing the public figure's setback story with your own. · *** This is NOT a traditional research paper. You need to tell it as a story. You are telling the public figure's setback story through YOUR eyes. How do YOU see their setback story? How do YOU see the external forces at work? How are YOU inspired by their story? How does their story impact YOU? Steps: . Choose a public figure, someone you either know a lot about or want to learn more about. · Find credible sources related to that individual, their setback story, and the sociological and/or sociocultural context. · Research that figure, focusing on their setback story and how they dealt with the failure (What did they do? What did they say? What steps/actions did they take?) · Take your research further, looking into the sociopolitical and sociocultural context. For example, if you're choosing a Civil Right Activist from the 1960s, what was going on in the world that contributed to their setback? . Draw inspiration and lessons from that person's story and identify how it applies (or might apply) to you. · Write the draft. · Revise, revise, revise! · Polish. Some Brainstorming Questions: montclair.instructure.com è The Research Narrative -- Middle Draft New Appointment Support Testarer using Creampie sources. · Quote, paraphrase, and summarize from credible sources. · Include proper MLA citations, including a Works Cited page and in-text citations. What to Avoid: . This is NOT a biographical essay. You are not telling the totality of the person's life. You are focusing on a single experience from their life. . This is NOT a compare-and-contrast essay. You may use your personal narrative as a point of reference, but you are not merely comparing the public figure's setback story with your own. · *** This is NOT a traditional research paper. You need to tell it as a story. You are telling the public figure's setback story through YOUR eyes. How do YOU see their setback story? How do YOU see the external forces at work? How are YOU inspired by their story? How does their story impact YOU? Steps: . Choose a public figure, someone you either know a lot about or want to learn more about. · Find credible sources related to that individual, their setback story, and the sociological and/or sociocultural context. · Research that figure, focusing on their setback story and how they dealt with the failure (What did they do? What did they say? What steps/actions did they take?) · Take your research further, looking into the sociopolitical and sociocultural context. For example, if you're choosing a Civil Right Activist from the 1960s, what was going on in the world that contributed to their setback? . Draw inspiration and lessons from that person's story and identify how it applies (or might apply) to you. · Write the draft. · Revise, revise, revise! · Polish. Some Brainstorming Questions: · What societal, cultural, and political factors may have been at play? · How might this person be an inspiration to others besides you? Is their setback story inspirational to specific communities? (Women, African American, LGBT+, economic status, etc .. ) . How did this person's gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, economic group play a role in their setback story? How might certain structures within the individual's industry/profession have prevented their success and what does that say about society? Start Page Low Battery Your Mac will sleep soon unless plugged into a power outlet. SPRING 2024 Account Home Announcements Dashboard Syllabus Courses Modules Assignments Calendar 11 Inbox Grades Zoom People Library Resources Course Evaluations History O Follett Follett Discover ? Help