Choose three different goals from the following list to set for yourself when writing your conference proposal. Setting these small goals will make it easier for you grow as a writer over our semester together:

• Include a research question in your proposal which includes the words “how” or “why” or “what effect?”
• List a specific cultural object you are going to study (e.g.: a specific book i.e. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; a specific song; a specific movie, etc…)
• List a specific part of a cultural object you are going to study (e.g.: just the costuming in Seven Samurai)
• Pick a fight with a named scholar using the “they say / I say” formula
• “Stand on the shoulders of giants” of a specific named scholar
• Identify a gap in the research and explain how you are going to fill it
• List a specific place and time period (e.g.: Harlem in the 1960s)
• Take your proposal to the writing lab before submitting it to me
• Explain how the answer to your research question helps answer another important question in the world humanities field
• List a specific critical theory (e.g.: feminism, Marxism, Black studies) that you are using to ask your question
• Come up with your own verifiable short goal for the project (subject to my approval)

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