Media and racism in America
Project description
Bibliographic Analysis setup and design
What is its Purpose?
• Essay 3 is where you will make connections between sources or synthesize the material you have gathered concerning your topic.
• Call upon what you’ve researched and address the various angles of your chosen controversial topic and to use your sources to offer multiple solutions or answers to a problem or question tentatively posed.
Requirements:
• 4-6 pages
• 8-10 sources (no more than 2 from the reader).
• MLA style, 12-pt. times new roman font.
• Academic Audience (as always).
Organizing Your Bibliographic Analysis:
• Introduction = two purposes
• First- poses one or two controversial questions you have asked regarding your proposed topic.
• Second- Presents a rationale concerning why you desire to cover the topic offer reasons why an audience including your instructor, classmates, and the greater community might care about this topic.
• Thesis- Describe the manner in which sources fit together:
• echoing one another,
• repudiating opposing claims,
• presenting a unique approach/ idea
• etc.
• example thesis/ organization approaches (Page 32):
• Historical timeline-
• Multiple Issues-
• Contrasting Sides-
• Note: Your thesis should show how your sources engage one another, while you remain neutral*** You will be able to put your own stance back in with essay 4. ZERO FIRST PERSON OR SECOND PERSON HERE.
• Actual Analysis:
• Possible questions or topics:
• What type of writers take up this subject and what seem to be their reasons?
• What kind of audiences do writers seem to be addressing or attempting to address in their writings?
• What kinds of venues of publication have the writers preferred, and which seems to provide the most reliable information?
• When were most of these issues brought up? Is the debate old and ongoing, or new?
• What kind of concerns do writers pose about this topic (moralistic, religious, scientific, etc.)?
• What writing strategies do writers prefer to use in reaching an audience (logical, emotional, or ethical appeals; a dependence on scientific studies or statistics).
• Regardless of the points you address, you will want to make certain to address numerous and diverse types of sources.
• Conclusion-
• Draw attention to the areas that you feel the research or researchers fail to address fully or perhaps neglected to address at all and offer a plausible reason as to why such an area(s) has not been researched.