PART 1: Begin to brainstorm how you plan to incorporate other media into your final essay. Include links and/or descriptions of media that you hope to use in your final essay and describe how these choices will work with your alphabetic text to better communicate your overall idea. Finally, attempt to label each source and briefly mention how you will go about correctly citing these sources in your Works Cited section.
For my final essay, I have considered using facets and pictures to assist in making my main points. I liked how Jonah Lehrer used facets throughout his essay, and I hope to do the same. The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” is very accurate. I believe that a well-placed picture can help describe a point better than paragraphs full of text. Along with facets and pictures, I am hoping to cite several articles about beauty in general. The links for two of these are below:
https://www.keen.com/articles/love/what-is-true-beauty
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/03/the-truth-about-beauty/305620/
PART 2: Complete a working outline for a preliminary peer review. Your peers will visit your ePortfolio and leave comments on your blog, so there is no need to bring in a physical copy. Your outline should mention which peer project(s) you hope to work with. Your outline should also mention where you want to place other media, as well. Remember that this is a working outline, and it’s okay to write things down, even if you suspect things will change as you write and process your thoughts. Your outline will serve as a tentative path for your first draft, but an outline should never be set in stone. Your outline serves you, not the other way around, and you can always deviate it feels right.
- Intro
- 1st Paragraph/Point- Society’s Perception of Beauty. Two facets, one cited article
- 2nd Paragraph/Point- Armstrong’ Essay, Going over some of his points, cite a few quotes
- 3rd Paragraph/Point- “What is Art For”, Going over some of the main points, cite a few quotes
- 4th Paragraph/Point- Review someone’s Art Project, pull out some quotes
- 5th Paragraph/Point- Fixing Society’s View of Beauty, cite another article
- Closing
Making this a very visual essay can be a powerful aspect to your argument. the outline being extremely clear and structured will also aid in your ability to write a paper that wont side track easily because you can continually refer to it and remain on top of your argument.
I like the idea of a facet. The picture with a description sounds like a good way to make visuals understandable and relevant for any reader that goes through your paper. Your outline also builds nicely.
I like that you plan to go full circle with your essay and begin with societies view on beauty and end it with how societies perception of beauty can be corrected. I think it will be an effective way to voice your opinion and will be an effective strategy for creating a well rounded and complete essay that speaks to all sides of an argument which leaves your reader feeling a complete understanding of your argument.
Max,
Remember to build a strong, cohesive argument. Avoid moving from source to source (summary to summary), but instead integrate the sources as they support your advancing argument. Synthesize your sources using the Barclay formula. For example, what happens when you pair a quote from Anderson with one of your peer’s projects?
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