Write anything you want for the Final Paper. Students will deliver their paper on our Final Exam day, but there's no exam, this Final Paper is all that's due.
Final Writing
Due Thursday April 30th
Some options using existing work:
- expand short paper 1 or 2
- expand the mid-term
- expand the Microagressions Weekly Response, looking closely at how that happens to Mutants across different X-Men titles across different time periods
Some prompts:
- compare/contrast any of the graphic novels on our reading list
- compare/contrast a graphic novel to one of the movies it's been adapted into
- explore social issues, civil rights issues, human rights issues, gender issues, and how they're reflected in one or more X-Men comics, or movies
- look at the the class website, which has lots of Further Reading and History links in the right-most sidebar; use one of those articles, ask a big question
- Which X-Men story or character is the closest to you, and why?
- What can the X-Men, and elder Mutants, teach us about parenting, education, or human rights, across history and cultures?
- Is Logan, specifically Old Man Logan from the movie and comic, an ideal parent, why or why not?
- Is Professor X a foster parent, guardian, employer, therapist, teacher, or a combination thereof, why or why not?
- Are the Female Mutants, the characters depicted in comics or movies, authentic enough, layered enough, relevant, why or why not?
- How do any of the Mutants speak up and stand up for themselves, moreover, how do the Female Mutants' actions break out of the boxes that male team members attempt to put them in?
- What villain in the X-Men Mutant universe is the most dangerous, and why? Somebody like Cameron Hodge, a lawyer who became a successful advertising and public relations professional, secretly creating the Right, devoted to the destruction of all Mutants.
NY Times prompts:
- How can these writing topics be molded into a paper about X-Men, the Mutants?
- Still stuck? Use the NY Times and their reading, research, and writing methods.
Minimum 6 pages, Maximum 8 pages
- bibliography equals a separate page, and does not count towards the written 6–8 page count
- Georgia, Times, or Times New Roman font, 12-point font, double-spaced
Final Writing due Thursday April 30th
Email as a Word attachment or PDF attachment
Early deadline April 27th, receive 15 extra points
Worth 120 Points:
- 15 points: (5) craft of writing, (5) spelling, (5) grammar
- 15 including social issues or a social issue within your paper and its arguments, (5) show the issue in the past, (5) near past, (5) present
- 10 showing the other side of that social issue within your paper and its argument, to provide broader context—this is showing “the other side” that may differ from your own point of view, social norms, or what’s right and just
- 20 ideas and argument, (10) flow of writing including use of transitions between ideas and/or paragraphs, (10) use of at least two supporting materials such as a quote or statement or statistic
- 30 outside research, (10) citing specifics from a movie and/or comic book and (10) using at least two direct quotes from outside sources to further your argument, (10) sourced from a book, magazine, website, interview
- 20 originality and (10) synthesis of ideas, (10) use of your own opinion(s)
- 10 presentation, professionalism, proper submission using Dropbox
Ultimately, find something you like to research, read, dig into.
Have your own idea for a Final Paper theme, idea, thesis?
- Email me your pitch.
- And definitely include it in your Short Paper 3 Annotated Bibliography.
- Make sure you pitch it in Short Paper 4 due in early April.