For the second formal assignment, we will be working as a class to develop a question at issue about a topic based on each of the three assigned readings from this section of the class. You will then choose which question you want to write about. After discussing developing research questions in class today and reading the final assigned reading, your job for this blog post is to select the topic that you want to work with for this assignment, develop a potential research question for that topic, and locate at least two scholarly sources that look like promising sources for an essay on this topic. So, consider the next 2 blog posts two parts of a larger single assignment to prepare you to write Formal Assignment 2:

Blog Post 4 – Moving from topic to question
Using the specific popular text that you are working with, introduce your chosen topic and explain how this topic raises the question at issue. Imagine an audience who has not read (or listened to) the text. Use a brief summary of that text to both pique the reader’s interest in this topic and raise the issue that you will research and answer for your second formal assignment. In addition, make it clear why this is an important question that should be answered.

Blog post 4 should be about 300-500 words, and is due by the beginning of class on Thursday, October 12.

Blog Post 5 – Looking for answers
Revised 10/18
For this post, introduce the question at issue that the class settles on for your chosen topic, identify the two scholarly sources (name of author[s] and title of source) you’ll be using as you complete this assignment, and summarize these sources–making it clear how these sources are addressing (in whole or in part) the question at issue you and your group have settled on.

Include full Works Cited entries for all sources used in these posts (there should be at least 3 between them, but there may be more). Blog post 5 should be 500-700 words, and is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday October 24.*