Your Third Essay for our class will be a Research Essay. We save the Research Essay for last because this Essay combines the skills you’ve worked on so far:
Analysis: For the Research Essay, you will be developing an interpretation of heroism as it appears in King et al’s Vision. To develop and present this interpretation, you will have to engage in analysis of King et al.’s text.
Evaluation: For the Research Essay, you will be combining outside sources into your essay. To incorporate those sources effectively, you will have to evaluate the arguments in those sources to identify which arguments will best support your own arguments.
The Research Essay is your chance to show all that you’ve learned in this class. Successful completion of the Research Essay will demonstrate your growing skill with the importance academic activities of analysis and and critical analysis.
selective focus photography of light bulbFor the Research Essay, please develop an essay answering this question: who, if anyone, is the hero of Vision? Like the topics of our previous two essays, this one is complicated: there is no clear and obvious answer. While common possibilities include Vision himself, or Virginia or Viv or potentially even Victor, there may be other characters who you might consider the hero of the graphic novel. And of course, you might argue that there is no hero at all. Again, which answer you wish to argue for is up to you.
Regardless of your answer, and in keeping with the previous essays, here’s what I’ll be looking for:
An innovative, non-obvious thesis based on your response to the prompt above, supported with outside research. A key part of successful academic writing is supporting your interpretations with the interpretations of others. The Research Essay will allow you to continue to improve in this area.
The inclusion and usage of your personal definition of heroism. Through Lab Exercise #1 – Defining Heroism #1, Lab Exercise #7 – Defining Heroism #2, and Lab Exercise #13 – Defining Heroism #3, you have developed and refined your own personal definition of heroism. I want you to use that definition in this essay! After all, if you are going to argue that a particular character in Vision is a hero, or that there are no heroes in the graphic novel, then you need to tell the reader what definition of “hero” and “heroism” you’re using. This is a required part of the assignment.
Thorough explanations of your thought process and your sources: One common mistake students make in research essays is mentioning each source just once in order to tick the box, and then spending the rest of the essay just talking about the student’s own beliefs. In contrast, an effective Research Essay will regularly bring together sources and your own interpretations. Your sources should not just be one small thing somewhere in the introduction, never to be heard from again. Instead, your sources should be, as much as possible, a regular presence in most or all of your paragraphs.
Thorough descriptions of the parts of Vision that are relevant to your argument: In this essay more than any other essay I assign, I get drafts from students that make me wonder if the student has even read the assigned text: i.e. Vision. Please make sure to describe the moments of you chosen to analyze from Vision in enough detail that even someone not in our class can follow along, and so that I can be sure that you really have read and thought about King et al.’s work.
A focused essay that writes “a lot about a little”: to answer the prompt, focus your essay on just one or two parts of the graphic novel. Don’t try to explain all of Vision. Instead, try to explore just a few carefully chosen pieces of Vision.
“Parts” can mean either one specific moment in the graphic novel (a specific scene or character or image), or one specific idea that is then supported with different moments from throughout the graphic novel. Sometimes students ask me “Do I have to write about only one scene?” The answer to that question is no. You can include multiple scenes in your essay, but if you do, all of those scenes should be linked to one single idea.
Requirements: As required
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