Assignment:
You will identify a site of interest to you connected to architecture, planning, and the rhetoric of space. You analyze the site. You identify the arguments that have been made concerning this site or ones like it and support or critique these arguments, making your own argument in the process. Finally, you will highlight your ability to do fieldworking and academic research that is detailed, developed, and supports your thesis.
NOTE: please add photos as this will be
presented in an presentation format
Evaluation criteria:
• A clearly stated thesis that is an argument in your introduction. Your thesis must use the “I argue” structure. Your introduction needs to be one single paragraph. Include a paragraph on the counter-argument to make your thesis stronger. Develop your thesis throughout the paper. 25 points
• Support of your thesis throughout the paper in terms of fieldworking evidence and interpretation of that fieldworking evidence. Your fieldworking must use first person (I, me, my) as you described what you observed. Include your fieldworking plan and how you implemented it. Fieldworking should make up at least half your paper. 25 points
• Your project should be balanced between your fieldwork and at least five scholarly sources, ten sources total, to prove your thesis. You must quote from all of your sources. (You may use more than five scholarly sources. Nonscholarly sources are good sources when useful and appropriate. See examples in FieldWorking. They just aren’t as useful for argument making, but can be just as good or better for support.) For each source, you need a quote that you analyze, and you must introduce and analyze your quotes (quote sandwich.) 25 points
• A logical organization for your paper and transitions between sections. 5 points
• In-text citation and a Works Cited list, according to MLA guidelines. 5 points
Questions on how to use MLA? Check out the Purdue Owl website: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
• A paragraph of process description at the end of the paper, describing the writing choices you made as you worked on the paper. When you hand in your revision, add a sentence or two about the process for the revision, describing the changes you made for the final draft. When I grade the paper, I will be reading your paragraph of process description first. 5 points
• Clear, meaningful sentences, free of grammatical error and carefully proofread. 10 points
