1/20/17 Mike Rossiter

Today Mr.Rivers was back in class, To start off the period we started talking about our Senior Papers. First, we looked at the calendar that was assigned for the senior paper. The class has until the 25th to finish part one of the senior paper. Part one of the senior paper is all about our proposal for our Senior paper. In this proposal we are to include academic lenses.  An academic lenses is the overall topic of the paper. It is what a scholar would use to write a paper. After this academic lens the proposal will include a research topic. This is what the paper is about. After the topic comes the film. In the film the student will evidence from the film to help make the paper stronger and flow well. After getting evidence from the film the student then will decide what the purpose of the paper is. The whole idea behind the proposal is to get the student ready and help them get on track with what they want to write about. With the proposal comes research. Today's class was all about finding evidence from databases to help improve the proposal and make it very strong. The total proposal is 20 points. 5 points coming from Scholarly Evidence: A brief 3-4 sentence description of the article, a link to the source, a citation, and what part of it will help to shape your paper. Another 5 points coming from Cinematic Evidence: A brief 3-4 sentence description of your film, a citation, and what part of it will help to shape your paper. And the final 10 points coming in the way of 200-300 words. These 200-300 words will explain why the paper you propose is relevant to your scholarly community.