The essay is not a formal research paper. It is a process essay based on your initial project question. For example, Kimani Reid asked "How can I make an animation?" His project has been about creating a flash animation. Go back to your project idea and formulate your essay around your project idea as a question. "How can I make a video about Brooklyn Prep?" "How can I make a documentary about teen pregnancy?"
The essay should attempt to show all the steps you have undertaken so far to complete your project. Additionally, you should try and address the following questions. They can be used as an outline to help structure your essay:
- What's the question or issue?
- What's my viewpoint and why?
- What's my evidence?
- How does this connect to my own experience?
- Why is this important?
- Have I incorporated individuality and creativity in my work?
- What are different possibilities or solutions for the issue I am addressing?
- Have I experimented or taken a risk?
- Does my work reflection organization, and cooperation with others?
Post a comment in response to the alternative assignment whether you feel you will need to write the essay to help pass the course or whether you feel you can finish your project by the June 13th final deadline.
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I think that I will be doing the essay because I don't have my video done yet. I feel that it could of gotten done but the people that I have pick to be in my video are not either ready or was not here. So I feel that doing an essay would help me get my grade because I don't think that if I still think about doing the video that it would be done in time so I feel that I should do th essay.Which makes its good that you made up a idea like this because it will give the students a chance to think about what they want to do. Exspecially if they feel that they are going to fail the class and feel that by doing the essay that will help them pass.
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