Q Steps 21-25: Literature Review (Multiple Draft Assignments) Directions: Introduction Paragraph ONLY Review the Explanation Video Links to an external site.(2 min) * Due dates aren’t the same, but the explanation is. What is a Literature Review Links to an external site. (2 min) How to Write a Stellar Literature ReviewLinks to an external site. Explore any topic that you’d like in relation to media and identity. These past few years have been fraught with discussions of how media has made clearer, or distorted, identities (Republican, Democrat, Liberal, LGTBQ, Black, Immigrant, Rural White, Christian, Muslim, Single Moms, educated, uneducated, college-grads, non-college-grads, rich, poor, middle-class, Walmart people, protesters: the list is endless!). Think of an identity-representation that has caught your attention, maybe you have a personal connection to it, maybe you feel you’d like to interrogate it more; this is the topic that you will be working with throughout the rest of the term. Make sure you are interested in it! This assignment asks you to synthesize all of your research over the semester and present the findings (your argument) in an argument-based literature review paper; this is not the typical “gather-information-and-put-it-in-a-paper” report. It is a review of all the current, relevant research, driven by your own original argument, contemplating, challenging, and concurring with others’ standpoints while adding something new and original to the ongoing academic argument. (6-8 pages) Peer Reviews This assignment asks you to participate in each other’s writing processes by looking closely at writing and giving helpful constructive feedback. Post #1- Upload your paper Post #2- Submit a paragraph telling your classmates how you'd like criticism, include any questions or sections you'd like them to focus on while reviewing your paper Post #3- Respond to a classmate's Post #2 View Rubric Select Grader Copy of Introduction Rubric (1) (1) (1) Copy of Introduction Rubric (1) (1) (1) Criteria Ratings Pts Attention-Getter view longer description 5 pts Proficient 3 pts Competent Needs a bit of work to be the best that it could be 0 pts Novice missing/ incomplete/ off topic 5 / 5 pts Introduce Background- Clearly attends to the prompt; introduces an outside sources/ concepts that may be needed view longer description 10 pts Proficient 5 pts Competent Needs a bit of work to be the best that it could be 0 pts Novice missing/ incomplete/ off topic 10 / 10 pts Thesis Statement- Clearly tells what is going to be proven in the essay view longer description 15 pts Proficient 7 pts Competent Needs a bit of work to be the best that it could be 0 pts Novice missing/ incomplete/ off topic 15 / 15 pts Total Points: 30