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My Quest For Confidence (2020 - 2021), Tai Tran
My Quest For Confidence (2020 - 2021), Tai Tran
Critical Evaluation
In this critical evaluation Tran discusses the need for confidence in writing and not simply relying on summarizing or explaining sources, but connecting back to one’s main argument and extending, commenting on, or even critiquing those sources. Along with the narrative essay that Tran provides, there is also a list of “author notes” or a cover letter that accompanies the main essay. This first list of eight points helps to frame the reader’s understanding of the critical evaluation essay.
Child Protection Services: The Developmental Consequences Of Arbitrary Removal (2020-2021), John Jackson
Child Protection Services: The Developmental Consequences Of Arbitrary Removal (2020-2021), John Jackson
Research Inquiry
This research inquiry example details the developmental consequences for children removed from their biological homes by Children’s Services. Jackson uses sources to discuss physical, mental, and emotional implications for removing children from their homes or parents in their future development as both children and adults. Not only does Jackson present an alternative perspective thinking about negative consequences and how the process of removal puts parents at odds with regaining custody, but he also proposes an alternative solution in the conclusion.
The Medical Ethics Of Hela Cells (2020-2021), Elizabeth Pratt
The Medical Ethics Of Hela Cells (2020-2021), Elizabeth Pratt
Research Inquiry
Pratt’s research inquiry essay focuses on the medical ethics issues involved in the case of Henrietta Lacks and her cancer cells (known as HeLa,) which have been used and reused in medical research without hers or her family’s consent. Throughout this essay, Pratt moves between several areas for concern including medical agency and patients’ rights to their own bodies, financial implications, legal definitions, and issues for privacy. Pratt concludes with a call for future regulations and focus on medical ethics.
The Effects Of Misrepresentation (2020-2021), Miranda R. Cobo
The Effects Of Misrepresentation (2020-2021), Miranda R. Cobo
Research Inquiry
This example of a research inquiry investigates issues of representation in the comic, Black Panther. Cobo writes: “In the 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced T’Challa, famously known as the Black Panther. He was the first black superhero to be introduced in the Marvel Universe and into popular American comics. The world that Black Panther lived in is very advanced and breaks the stereotype of the view that many Americans have on Africa. However, that is only one stereotype that it has worked against. There have been many other stereotypes that writers use in T’Challa’s storyline that can be …
Illegitimate Control: An Acknowledgement Of False White Supremacy (2020-2021), Whitman Ives
Illegitimate Control: An Acknowledgement Of False White Supremacy (2020-2021), Whitman Ives
Research Inquiry
This research inquiry introduces a timely conversation on racism, cultural appropriation, and white supremacy. Ives’ argument is that the root cause of cultural appropriation and racism can be traced to a negative and false history of white supremacy. In other words, white culture has been founded and perpetuated based on power-seeking behavior, of which racism is more a symptom. Ives asserts that it is important to acknowledge that white culture is based on false assumptions of supremacy and to address that more systematically rather than addressing only individual events or instances of racism.
The Doppelganger Effect (2020-2021), Jessica Jean-Baptiste
The Doppelganger Effect (2020-2021), Jessica Jean-Baptiste
Research Inquiry
In this example of a research inquiry, Jean-Baptiste focuses on the use of cameras and mirrors to create doubles, or “doppelgangers” for the character of Nina in the film, Black Swan. In thinking about the “doppelganger effect,” Jean-Baptiste moves through an argument for how doubling fulfills not only one purpose or message within the film, but three. Her claim in synthesizing multiple sources of film analysis is that the doppelganger allows Aronofsky to comment on mental disorders, sexism within the community of ballet, and the overall mood for the film as a thriller as opposed to only a drama.
Stand By Me As My Words Write The Way (2020-2021), Gianna Wheeler
Stand By Me As My Words Write The Way (2020-2021), Gianna Wheeler
Remix
In this example of a remix assignment, Wheeler uses poetry as a means to translate her research inquiry project into a new form for a new audience and purpose. She remixes aspects of her film analysis of Stand By Me with a reimagined focus on her research process. Wheeler considers aspects such as source selection, revision, and incorporating feedback into the final research inquiry paper. Throughout the poem, “Stand By Me” is both the title of the film on which Wheeler is conducting research and also a repeated phrase marking the progress that she makes through various stages in …