This assignment makes me both nervous and excited. I’ve
never written an essay with the goal of publication, but am glad we are jumping
into this during our first semester in graduate school. With that being said, I’m
planning to approach this assignment by breaking it into several related parts.
My thesis isn’t solid yet, but I have a general idea of what
I want to write about. Here are the ideas/themes I am exploring in relation to
composition studies:
- Crossing boundaries between student and teacher.
- Crossing boundaries between cultures, languages, and geographical regions.
- Crossing boundaries across academic disciplines.
Some of the authors that we’ve read in class that I plan to
use for my research are: Royster, Fulkerson, and Bizzell.
Part of the research I plan to undertake is on how these
boundaries have shifted over the past few decades. Are the boundaries more
transparent today?
Nice to hear! Yes, that's the expectation--researching and then sharing your knowledge with others. When you publish something there's a great responsibility; must present your case fully and well. Need to focus; pick maybe one aspect of one of those bulleted points.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll continue to work on narrowing my focus.
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDelete