Analytical Research Paper: The New Top Gun Movie Trailer Research

The final paper of the entire research project, the theme of the project is to analyze the selected artifact (the trailer of the new Zhuangzhi Lingyun movie). The first few assignments of the project have been uploaded.

主题：Artifact research paper  选择的artifact: 新壮志凌云电影预告片 

先前作业的要求：（Artifact Analysis） 

For this assignment, you must produce a 3 page focused analysis of the cultural artifact you've chosen to work with during the semester. Your artifact should demonstrate a high level of cultural capital, connect to contemporary social and cultural issues, allow for complex yet manageable analysis, and connect to your interest.  This analysis will serve as the basis for your further research.

Keep in mind the meaning of analysis; according to the authors of The Writer’s Companion, analysis is “unraveling a knot, solving a mystery, making something murky clear. To analyze something is to investigate how and why it is the way it is—to seek to understand the way it is working” (p. 25). Consider it your job to attempt to define and explain what you see in your cultural artifact.

Rhetorical analysis is the main goal of this assignment, therefore the argument portion of this paper (recognition of patterns, details, and visual elements, connections/claims, “so what?”) will be weighed most heavily. I do not expect you to have a developed thesis at this point. I do expect you to spend time comparing/contrasting the styles, voices, word choice, logic, visual elements, genre, audience, effectiveness, etc. of your selected artifact. Your job is to show how presentation of information affects its reception and to draw significant conclusions about rhetorical techniques present in the artifact.

Objectives:

• Produce a focused analysis of the primary source you have chosen that fits within the scope of our course theme


• Finish the analysis with a paragraph that includes one or two open-ended research questions that will help guide you toward developing a working thesis and finding secondary source materials (i.e. questions that cannot be answered with “yes” or “no”)


• Create an analysis that will serve as the basis for your research, secondary source integration, and further assignments.

Points to Keep in Mind:

• Start your paper by identifying basic information about the source.
  
  
  
  • What is it?
  
  
  • Where did it come from?
  
  
  • Who made it?
  
  
  
  


• Finish the analysis with a paragraph that includes one or two open-ended research questions (questions that arise from observations about the source) that will help guide you toward developing a working thesis and finding secondary source materials (i.e. questions that cannot be answered with “yes” or “no”).

As a Reminder:

• You do not need to include a cover/title page or a works cited/bibliography page.


• An appropriate essay header looks like this:
  
  
  
  • YourFirstName YourLastName
  
  
  • Prof. Colón Alvarez
  
  
  • English 1110
  
  
  • Date of Assignment
  
  
  
  


• You should include page numbers on the top-right hand corner.


• This assignment should be 3 pages, double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and set to 1” margins.

Final paper要求 (Research Paper)

This assignment should be 6-7 pages, double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and set to 1” margins.

Objectives:

• Analyze primary sources and the messages they convey in written, visual, and/or audio media


• Explore and make claims about how the messages are conveyed


• Discuss to whom the messages are conveyed and speculate about the effectiveness of this message for a specific audience


• Develop a complex thesis that makes a claim about how a primary source communicates a message to a specific audience


• Demonstrate awareness about your role in the conversation about your research question and thesis by acknowledging what is at stake in your analysis. In other words, explain why your analysis matters


• Integrate secondary sources in a way that accounts for aspects of the academic conversation that are relevant to the paper’s thesis


• Include a title on the first page that reflects the complexity of the paper’s general purposes


• Include proper in-text citations of each source consulted or referred to, including the primary source which you’re analyzing, and an appropriately formatted Works Cited page following MLA guidelines


• Observe the standards of academic writing discussed in class and avoid sentence-level errors and lapses in tone. Produce fluid and precise prose with appropriate transitions through。

主题：Artifact research paper  选择的artifact: 新壮志凌云电影预告片 

Cultural Artifacts

Your chosen cultural artifact will anchor most of the work you'll do this semester. It’s important, then, that you reflect critically on what constitutes a successful cultural artifact for analysis.

Successful cultural artifacts should:

1. Demonstrate a high level of cultural capital. You might want to select a well-known and/or highly circulated artifact for analysis.


2. Connect to contemporary social and cultural issues. Your analysis may be more successful if your artifact connects to contemporary social-cultural issues.


3. Allow for complex yet manageable analysis. Your cultural artifact needs to be limited enough in scope that you can effectively analyze all its evidence, yet complex enough that you can situate it in a significant cultural context.


4. Connect to your topical interests. Think creatively! It's important that your cultural artifact connects to your personal and academic interests.

**Not all items listed in the “Could be” category will make successful primary sources. For example, a poster, though manageable for analysis, might not work if it is not well-known/highly circulated.**

先前作业的要求：（Artifact Analysis） 

For this assignment, you must produce a 3 page focused analysis of the cultural artifact you've chosen to work with during the semester. Your artifact should demonstrate a high level of cultural capital, connect to contemporary social and cultural issues, allow for complex yet manageable analysis, and connect to your interest.  This analysis will serve as the basis for your further research.

Keep in mind the meaning of analysis; according to the authors of The Writer’s Companion, analysis is “unraveling a knot, solving a mystery, making something murky clear. To analyze something is to investigate how and why it is the way it is—to seek to understand the way it is working” (p. 25). Consider it your job to attempt to define and explain what you see in your cultural artifact.

Rhetorical analysis is the main goal of this assignment, therefore the argument portion of this paper (recognition of patterns, details, and visual elements, connections/claims, “so what?”) will be weighed most heavily. I do not expect you to have a developed thesis at this point. I do expect you to spend time comparing/contrasting the styles, voices, word choice, logic, visual elements, genre, audience, effectiveness, etc. of your selected artifact. Your job is to show how presentation of information affects its reception and to draw significant conclusions about rhetorical techniques present in the artifact.

Objectives:

• Produce a focused analysis of the primary source you have chosen that fits within the scope of our course theme


• Finish the analysis with a paragraph that includes one or two open-ended research questions that will help guide you toward developing a working thesis and finding secondary source materials (i.e. questions that cannot be answered with “yes” or “no”)


• Create an analysis that will serve as the basis for your research, secondary source integration, and further assignments.

Points to Keep in Mind:

• Start your paper by identifying basic information about the source.
  
  
  
  • What is it?
  
  
  • Where did it come from?
  
  
  • Who made it?
  
  
  
  


• Finish the analysis with a paragraph that includes one or two open-ended research questions (questions that arise from observations about the source) that will help guide you toward developing a working thesis and finding secondary source materials (i.e. questions that cannot be answered with “yes” or “no”).

As a Reminder:

• You do not need to include a cover/title page or a works cited/bibliography page.


• An appropriate essay header looks like this:
  
  
  
  • YourFirstName YourLastName
  
  
  • Prof. Colón Alvarez
  
  
  • English 1110
  
  
  • Date of Assignment
  
  
  
  


• You should include page numbers on the top-right hand corner.


• This assignment should be 3 pages, double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and set to 1” margins.

Final paper要求 (Research Paper)

This assignment should be 6-7 pages, double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and set to 1” margins.

Objectives:

• Analyze primary sources and the messages they convey in written, visual, and/or audio media


• Explore and make claims about how the messages are conveyed


• Discuss to whom the messages are conveyed and speculate about the effectiveness of this message for a specific audience


• Develop a complex thesis that makes a claim about how a primary source communicates a message to a specific audience


• Demonstrate awareness about your role in the conversation about your research question and thesis by acknowledging what is at stake in your analysis. In other words, explain why your analysis matters


• Integrate secondary sources in a way that accounts for aspects of the academic conversation that are relevant to the paper’s thesis


• Include a title on the first page that reflects the complexity of the paper’s general purposes


• Include proper in-text citations of each source consulted or referred to, including the primary source which you’re analyzing, and an appropriately formatted Works Cited page following MLA guidelines


• Observe the standards of academic writing discussed in class and avoid sentence-level errors and lapses in tone. Produce fluid and precise prose with appropriate transitions through。