Final Project Guidelines Due Friday, July 29 at 11:59pm Pacific For the final project, complete one of the following project options: 1. Research Paper: Write an analytical paper 2000–2500 words in length (about 7–9 full pages, double-spaced) that is directly related to concepts in sex, love, and romance. Papers must include an introduction, conclusion, and bibliography; along with a thesis statement and evidence throughout that supports and advances your arguments. You are welcome to use nonacademic sources in addition to the required scholarly sources. 2. Zine: Create a magazine-format booklet (“zine”) that narrates a particular issue and is informed by your research. Then write a 500-word reflection paper that describes your creative inspiration for the zine, explains your analysis, and interprets how your zine intervenes in the issue or topic you chose. Zines can take different forms and size but are generally expected to be at least 6 pages in length. Zines can include images, poetry, quotes, art, and other creative texts by others (be sure to attribute creators) or original creative work made by you! Your zine should respond to one of the following prompts: a. Redefining Romance: Take a classic or normative romance story, cliché, theme, or meme and manipulate it to disrupt and transform the normative ways that it represents gender, race, class, culture, or other vectors or power and identity. b. Public Service Announcement (PSA): Choose an issue in sex, love, and romance for which there is a great deal of panic, lack of understanding, misrepresentation, or stereotyping (such as girlhood, the purity myth, porn, sex work, marriage). Write a zine that is informative as well as politically progressive in its representation of those who are especially impacted by the social issue under question. Project Expectations Organization: Papers must be double-spaced and follow a formal academic citation style (Chicago, MLA, or APA). Papers and zines must include your name, Professor’s and TA’s names, date, and a title. Sources: All projects must engage and cite at least seven scholarly sources. Note that this is two more than your proposal required. You also do not have to use the same sources from your proposal. Research papers and reflection papers must include in-text citations and bibliographies, correctly formatted. (For zines: you may choose not to include in-text citations in the zine itself; but your reflection paper must cite all seven sources.) In addition to the required scholarly sources, you may include extra sources such as newspaper articles, blogs, interviews, memoirs, government reports, statistics, novels, etc. Evaluation: Projects are evaluated according to overall organization and flow, inclusion of well-chosen evidence, argumentation and analysis of evidence, and engagement with course themes and concepts. See the rubric below for more detail. All final projects are due by Friday, July 29 at 11:59pm Pacific. Five points may be deducted for each day that your project is late, and after Sunday, July 31 no late work will be accepted. FEMST 150, Summer 2022 Session A, Prof. Victorian Final Project Guidelines 1 Final Project Rubric Organization Evidence Analysis & Discussion Subject Knowledge Not Passing (F) Barely Passing (D) Adequate (C) Good (B) Excellent (A) Thesis statement absent, irrelevant, or not inadequately developed Thesis statement not clearly stated, vague, or needs work Thesis statement easily found, relevant, and succinct Thesis statement easily found, developed, and descriptive Thesis statement easily found, well-developed, and compelling Lacks organization and is difficult to follow Minimal organization; major areas ambiguous Organized, but may at times drift from focus Logical and helpful organization Logical, well-organized, focused throughout Lacks evidence for major points; evidence provided does not support arguments Superficial or insufficient evidence; barely supports argument Evidence for all major points; but may lack helpful detail for supporting arguments Additional evidence and detail given for major points and supporting arguments Plenty evidence and detail for major points and supporting arguments Irrelevant or incorrect examples used Irrelevant or incorrect examples used Basic, relevant examples from other sources used Strategic examples used to connect arguments Illustrative, compelling examples used Does not show how evidence relates to arguments Stretches meaning or relevance of evidence to support arguments Explains how the evidence supports the argument in most cases Throughout, explains how evidence supports the arguments Developed arguments show strong relationship between evidence, thesis, and supporting points Explanation and reasoning are hard to discern, incomplete, illogical, or incorrect Explanation and reasoning are noticeably incomplete and illogical in multiple places Explanation and reasoning are basic and logical; some points may lack depth or context Explanation and reasoning are fully formed and logical Explanation and reasoning are fullyformed, logical; shows author's interpretation Does not demonstrate meaningful knowledge of subject. Demonstrates minimal understanding of subject and key concepts Demonstrates basic understanding of subject and major concepts Demonstrates knowledge and engagement with subject and concepts with depth or breadth Demonstrates depth and breadth of understanding and engagement with subject knowledge Information is irrelevant, incomplete, or inaccurate Major inaccuracies or irrelevancies Several minor inaccuracies or irrelevancies Few minor inaccuracies or No inaccuracies or irrelevancies irrelevancies FEMST 150, Summer 2022 Session A, Prof. Victorian Final Project Guidelines 2
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