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Essay 2 Pre-Writing Assignment
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Essay 2 Pre-Writing Assignment:
Due Wednesday, February 21st by 11:59pm EST
Worth 6% of final grade
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This assignment is meant to get you started on your research and critical thinking for
Essay 2.
What you need to do:
1. Choose one artwork from the Lightbox Cycle 4 that interests you.
1.
You can find the list of the artworks
on The Blackwood Gallery's website.
Links to an external site.
.
Take note of your first impressions seeing the artwork online.
2. Visit the Lightbox in person and examine it closely.
Take notes on the visual features of the artworks, such as colour, shape, line, texture, perspective, etc. Use the elements of art and principles of design as
a guide.
Take notes on your instincts about the meaning of visual elements. Are there connotations that are obvious? Are there ambiguous elements?
Take notes on the surrounding area. How is the Lightbox presented? How does the surrounding physical space affect your viewing?
Lightbox Cycle 4 can be seen on campus at the locations
Z1-Z4 (in red)
on this map:
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3. Choose 1 key term from
this list
that will serve as a critical lens for your analysis in Essay 2.
Your chosen key term should be useful and relevant. Does it help illuminate something about the Lightbox's meaning? Does it help contextualize that meaning across online and in-person contexts? Also
think about whether the term offers enough depth for analysis. Will it allow you to explore the artwork’s meaning in a nuanced way?
4. Research 1
scholarly
source that is
not
the textbook and
not
the Blackwood Gallery website.
This source could provide theoretical background, contextual information, or critical perspectives that will inform your analysis.
Start your search at the
U of T Library website
What counts as a scholarly source? | University of Toronto Libraries (utoronto.ca)
Request items from other campus libraries (Library Pickup) | University of Toronto Libraries (utoronto.ca)
.
Though the textbook cannot be your scholarly sources in this assignment, it can be a good source for research.
Look at the notes and the “further reading” sections at the end of textbook chapters where your key term appears; these are good academic sources and many of them are available through the U of T Library website.
Your goal is
not
to find a source that already apply your key term to your chosen image; rather, your goal is to find a source that explore, answer, or support some of the ideas that came up for you in the previous steps.
Research is not as simple as choosing a source that comes up on the first page of results.
Work towards finding relevant and appropriate sources and engage with the entirety of the article or useful sections of the book/text before deciding what to reference.
Article abstracts, book table of contents, and book
indexes (at the back) are your friends.
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You may need to read/scan
a number of sources before
finding the one that is most
relevant and useful.
5. Write 250-300 words about your current thinking on your key term and chosen Lightbox. You should write in paragraph form, and you may use the questions listed below as a guide. In your writing, you
must
use
both
paraphrasing and direct quotations
from your scholarly source to support your points using Chicago Manual of Style, citing using footnotes [
CMOS book
Links to an external site.
;
CMOS article
Links to an external site.
—on this website “N” refers to footnote style].
How does your chosen key term apply to your selected Lightbox?
What insights does your scholarly source provide about your key term or Lightbox?
How might these insights inform your understanding of how the transition from
online to physical viewing changes the contextual meaning of the artwork?
6. Write a bibliography for your work in Chicago Manual of Style.
[
CMOS book
Links to an external site.
;
CMOS article
Links to an external site.
—on this website “B” refers to bibliographic style]
7.
Complete this
academic integrity checklist
Download academic integrity checklist and insert the pdf into your word document
Why you are being asked to do this:
In lectures and readings, you are learning about various methods, key terms, and theories that each offer different
approaches to analyzing visual culture. In tutorials, you are practicing making original arguments about images. At the end of the semester, Essay 2 will ask you to combine what you’ve learned in lectures, readings, and
tutorials in order to produce an essay that presents an original argument about an image that is thoroughly grounded in a specialist approach to visual culture studies. A critical first step is the pre-writing phase of this
essay, which includes making careful choices, thinking critically, and researching. This assignment breaks down this pre-writing phase into manageable steps to make sure that you are on the right track before embarking on the essay itself.
At the end of this assignment, you should be able to:
o
understand the basics of academic research.
o
use Chicago Manual of Style correctly.
o
select an appropriate analytical and interpretive theory or method in the study of visual culture.
o
think critically about ideologies of visual culture in historical and/or contemporary contexts.
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You will be graded on:
Source Selection
o
Is it scholarly? Is it evidently relevant or do you make a good case for why it is relevant?
Critical thinking
o
Does your selection of Lightbox and key term work well together? Does your research reflect a feasible project for an approx. 750-word essay? Have you demonstrated how your source will help you analyze both the Lightbox and its various display contexts?
Use of Chicago Manual of Style
o
Did you follow the style guide correctly? Are you paraphrasing well? Do you show an understanding of when to use direct quotations versus paraphrasing?
Resources that might help:
Citations
Use Chicago Manual of Style:
General Format - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University
Links to an external site.
Academic Integrity
:
How Not To Plagiarize
Research Advice
:
Help Guides - Reference Help at the UTM Library - Research guides at University of Toronto (utoronto.ca)
Citing Your Sources - Reference Help at the UTM Library - Research guides at University of Toronto
(utoronto.ca)
Reading and Researching | Writing Advice (utoronto.ca)
Paraphrase and Summary | Writing Advice (utoronto.ca)
One-on-one help with your own writing
:
Appointments for Undergraduate Students | Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (utoronto.ca)
DVS Writing Tutor:
Dr. Colin Murray is the DVS Writing Tutor. He is available to help you with any kind of writing issues, at any stage of writing—from planning the structure of an assignment to citation formats to grammatical issues. Please feel free to sign up for an appointment using this online scheduler:
https://dvs-writing-
tutor.appointlet.com/b/colin-murray
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