Topic is: How Disney Enforced Stereotypes: Disney’s
Portrayal of Indian Characters in Jessie!, Phineas and Ferb, and Planes
from 2010-2015
Rubric is:
- Title page
- Introduction to and explanation of your topic and the problem or issue you’re examining
- Include authoritative statistics, evidence, or examples that help explain why the problem or issue you’re writing about is significant
- Research questions about your topic
- 1-2 questions. If you look at sample papers, you may see these simply listed as bullet points—it’s fine to do that. Some papers build a paragraph around the questions, putting them into context.
- Methodology
- State what you did in this paper—what media text/s you examined, what you searched for, how many years or publications or sites you searched
- Literature Review
- The history of the problem or issue that is your topic, using authoritative sources
- What other scholars have written about this problem or issue
- Findings
- What you discovered in your research about your topic, show, film, or problem
- Discussion
- What you think your findings mean
- Why your issue or topic matters; what’s at stake (you might use authoritative sources about why media matters to back you up here)
- If applicable to your topic, solutions or strategies you found in your research that you’d suggest to address this problem
- Conclusion
- Summarize the essential problem and the key points from your paper
- Bibliography
Point deduction if the following is done:
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Paper is structured in a confusing manner |
-10 |
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Sources are not authoritative and/or are not cited |
-5 |
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Spelling, grammar, punctuation are incorrect |
-5 |
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You didn’t follow MLA or APA academic format |
-10 |
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Writing is unclear, non-specific, or confusing |
-10 |
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Less than 4500 words (including the bibliography) |
-10 |
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You did not improve and revise this final draft based on student and instructor feedback |
-10 |
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Use of the term “the media” |
-10 |