In blog post number 14 I will be talking about the progress I’ve made with my research project so far. It has been a while since I wrote my last research project. The last research paper that I wrote was a 10 page research assignment on the book A Doll’s House my senior year of high school. This past week I finished writing the first draft of my research project. The question that I used to compose my research project is How can American parents redefine masculinity to their sons?
I used the film The Mask You Live In as a resource for my research. I choose to include multiple quotes from the films transcript in my research project. I choose the quote “Be a man. Stop with the tears, stop with the emotions. If you're going to be a man in this world, you better learn how to dominate and control people and circumstances" (The Mask You Live In 2015). As the attention grabber for the introduction paragraph of my research assignment. I feel like the above quote because it appeals to people's emotions in a sense. The quote talks about the common stereotype that is expected of males all of the time. One part of my research assignment that I struggled with was the thesis statement. In my previous blog post I talked about the TPS thesis statement that we talked about in class. We were given the challenge of using a TPS thesis statement in our research project. I knew who the audience was and what I wanted my thesis topic to be but I could not decide on what I should choose as my three pieces of support. After trying different words as my three pieces of support the thesis that I choose to use was American parents can redefine masculinity to their sons by teaching emotions, acceptance, and confidence. I choose to write my research project in MLA format so I broke my TPS thesis statement down into three paragraphs. In each of the paragraphs I broke down one of my supporting details. One goal that I have for my research project is to make sure that the quotes I choose from the film fit into my writing. I do not want the quotes to seem like they are just thrown into my writing. I want them to flow and help convey the message that I want to get across in my research paper.
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Katey
4/22/2019 06:33:33 pm
That’s a good goal to have! I like that your thinking of them now and knowing what you want to do.
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Daniel
4/22/2019 06:52:32 pm
It has been a long time since I wrote a research project as well, right around the end of my senior year. I like how you also used the film's transcript to help you in your research, I felt it was better reading it than just watching the film. I also appreciated how you broke down TPS in your previous post because I used it as me and Alaina developed our thesis.
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Gabriella Mendez
4/25/2019 05:25:30 am
I struggled with the thesis as well, I wasn't sure which one to do. I like how you used the films reference, “Be a man. Stop with the tears, stop with the emotions. If you're going to be a man in this world, you better learn how to dominate and control people and circumstances" (The Mask You Live In 2015)." This was a great attention grabber for your first paragraph.
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Kenya McDuffie
5/5/2019 12:59:52 pm
''American parents can redefine masculinity to their sons by teaching emotions, acceptance, and confidence''. Ashley Scarpato This definitely is an attention grabber.
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