Research Project: Scripts and Podcasts or Videos
Mulk Raj Anand
Proposal Due: Monday 4/17
Rough Draft Due: Monday 4/24 for in class peer review.
Final Draft Due: Monday 5/1
Proposal: Students will write a 500-word proposal for the research paper project. The proposal should assert a thesis, state key research questions to investigate, discuss why these questions are important, and analyze at least three quotations from The Dead or Untouchable (or both).
For your research project this term, you will write a script for an educational podcast or video that you will record or film, which asserts an argument analyzing the role of language, history, or geography, or a combination of these ideas, in James Joyce’s The Dead or Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, or in both texts. How are language and geography related? What role does history play in the interpretation of each novel? What passages did you find most compelling and why? If you consider both texts, what is different about their engagement with language? What effect does the sound of words have? What is the impact of the structure of each novel on the story it tells? These questions can help you to begin to focus on a topic for your podcast or video. Your audience is college students, high school students, or interested readers whom you feel would benefit from learning more about how your text works and its relationship to modernism.
Your written script must be at least 1500 words. You will need to select a narrow focus so that you can present a compelling argument in a short span of time and analyze at least six quotations from either Untouchable or The Dead, or a combination of both texts, in depth and quotations or points from five primary or secondary sources you have located. These sources must be interviews, journal articles, or books. You must use parenthetical citations in your essay to acknowledge ideas from sources as you refer to them. Use the templates for incorporating and analyzing quotations in They Say/I Say. You can search the NYIT library's website and their databases for journal articles. You can also join and search the databases at the New York Public Library.
Select a format for your video or podcast that best communicates the argument you would like to make. Some examples include a documentary, interview, commentary, or discussion, or a combination of these formats. Make sure that your script and podcast or video includes your own analysis of the texts. You can quote texts or include images, segments of recordings, or videos, but you must acknowledge all sources that you did not create.
You should investigate existing documentaries or videos to approach the genre and subject in a new way. Some resources are James Joyce and the Dubliners, James Joyce Documentary, and this clip from an interview with Mulk Raj Anand.
Our NYIT Library Guide is located here: http://libguides.nyit.edu/c.php?g=434061&p=3236778
For sample podcasts, see The History Chicks.
Remember to give your script and video or podcast a title. It will help to frame and focus your project.
You should also practice your video or podcast before recording it. You may want to record several versions or edit the final product.
Your podcast or video can depart from your script slightly to best suit the medium, but it should stay close to your plan. You should rehearse your script and revise it with the medium in mind, but you might also find aspects that work in the moment and should certainly include them.
There are also apps for making recordings, such as Soundcloud and Audacity.
Submit your script as a Word document on Blackboard and indicate the location of the video or podcast (such as Google Drive). You can use Google Drive to store and submit audiovisual material. If you submit your file using dropbox, please note this at the top of your script. Do not make your videos available for the public online. Make sure to save your files in a format that can be viewed by both Mac and Windows users.
You are required to include a list of works cited at the end of your script acknowledging all sources you have consulted, including webpages, interviews, and audiovisual materials. You must use your own words and cite all sources appropriately. Using others’ words or ideas without acknowledging them is plagiarism.
If you are using a Kindle version of a novel, cite the location or page number. You can find this by cutting and pasting a passage from the Kindle application you can download for your computer.
You will lose points for incorrect citation format and lack of proofreading. You can consult MLA guidelines here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
You will also lose points for lack of effort, depth, and careful textual analysis. Build from your experiences this term to demonstrate your analytical skills, creativity, and intellectual risk taking.
You will also lose points for not demonstrating correct integration of quotations. Remember that you need to analyze quotations that you include. Select quotations in which the language is necessary. If you can put a quotation in your own words, you don't need to quote it and you can summarize its contents and cite the page number in parentheses. his website may also be helpful: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QuoLiterature.html
Submit your rough draft and final drafts on Blackboard at least thirty minutes before class on the dates indicated above.
Resources
Joyce Resources from http://www.joycesdublin.ie/?page_id=7
James Joyce research resources in Ireland:
University College Dublin Website
UCD – Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive project
UCD – James Joyce research Centre
James Joyce Centre Dublin
James Joyce Museum
UCD Scholarcast: Prof. Anne Fogarty, ‘James Joyce and Popular Culture’
Irish archive resources:
National Library of Ireland
National Library of Ireland Sources
National Library of Ireland – Clarke Collection
National Archives of Ireland
Irish Times Digital Archive
Research publications on Joyce and The Dead:
Kevin Whelan, Memories of the Dead: The Yale Journal of Criticism – Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 59-97
James Joyce Quarterly
James Joyce Literary Supplement
Genetic Joyce Studies
Joyce Studies Annual
Find out more about the music in The Dead:
Tenor – Enrico Caruso (1873 – 1921)
Irish Singer, Noel O Grady, performs Joyce’s songbook
Columbia University Joyce Coursework Audio page
Irish Singer, Elizabeth Cronin (1879-1956)
John McCormack – Irish Tenor (1884 – 1945)
Find out more about places in The Dead:
The Gresham Hotel
The Gresham during the Civil War 1922; New York Times archive
James Joyce House, 15 Usher’s Island
Ireland in 1904
National Archive links relevant to Joyce, his work and The Dead:
Gresham Hotel
15 Usher’s Island
Adam and Eve’s Church, Merchant’s Quay
Webb’s bookshop, Aston Quay
Mount Mellery
Clongowes Roll book: James A. Joyce
Census of Joyce Family 1901
Census Return for Mrs Mack 1901
Census return for Nora Barnacle 1901
Thom’s Directory 1904: Usher’s Island
Joyce Family Census 1911
Rough Draft Due: Monday 4/24 for in class peer review.
Final Draft Due: Monday 5/1
Proposal: Students will write a 500-word proposal for the research paper project. The proposal should assert a thesis, state key research questions to investigate, discuss why these questions are important, and analyze at least three quotations from The Dead or Untouchable (or both).
For your research project this term, you will write a script for an educational podcast or video that you will record or film, which asserts an argument analyzing the role of language, history, or geography, or a combination of these ideas, in James Joyce’s The Dead or Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, or in both texts. How are language and geography related? What role does history play in the interpretation of each novel? What passages did you find most compelling and why? If you consider both texts, what is different about their engagement with language? What effect does the sound of words have? What is the impact of the structure of each novel on the story it tells? These questions can help you to begin to focus on a topic for your podcast or video. Your audience is college students, high school students, or interested readers whom you feel would benefit from learning more about how your text works and its relationship to modernism.
Your written script must be at least 1500 words. You will need to select a narrow focus so that you can present a compelling argument in a short span of time and analyze at least six quotations from either Untouchable or The Dead, or a combination of both texts, in depth and quotations or points from five primary or secondary sources you have located. These sources must be interviews, journal articles, or books. You must use parenthetical citations in your essay to acknowledge ideas from sources as you refer to them. Use the templates for incorporating and analyzing quotations in They Say/I Say. You can search the NYIT library's website and their databases for journal articles. You can also join and search the databases at the New York Public Library.
Select a format for your video or podcast that best communicates the argument you would like to make. Some examples include a documentary, interview, commentary, or discussion, or a combination of these formats. Make sure that your script and podcast or video includes your own analysis of the texts. You can quote texts or include images, segments of recordings, or videos, but you must acknowledge all sources that you did not create.
You should investigate existing documentaries or videos to approach the genre and subject in a new way. Some resources are James Joyce and the Dubliners, James Joyce Documentary, and this clip from an interview with Mulk Raj Anand.
Our NYIT Library Guide is located here: http://libguides.nyit.edu/c.php?g=434061&p=3236778
For sample podcasts, see The History Chicks.
Remember to give your script and video or podcast a title. It will help to frame and focus your project.
You should also practice your video or podcast before recording it. You may want to record several versions or edit the final product.
Your podcast or video can depart from your script slightly to best suit the medium, but it should stay close to your plan. You should rehearse your script and revise it with the medium in mind, but you might also find aspects that work in the moment and should certainly include them.
There are also apps for making recordings, such as Soundcloud and Audacity.
Submit your script as a Word document on Blackboard and indicate the location of the video or podcast (such as Google Drive). You can use Google Drive to store and submit audiovisual material. If you submit your file using dropbox, please note this at the top of your script. Do not make your videos available for the public online. Make sure to save your files in a format that can be viewed by both Mac and Windows users.
You are required to include a list of works cited at the end of your script acknowledging all sources you have consulted, including webpages, interviews, and audiovisual materials. You must use your own words and cite all sources appropriately. Using others’ words or ideas without acknowledging them is plagiarism.
If you are using a Kindle version of a novel, cite the location or page number. You can find this by cutting and pasting a passage from the Kindle application you can download for your computer.
You will lose points for incorrect citation format and lack of proofreading. You can consult MLA guidelines here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
You will also lose points for lack of effort, depth, and careful textual analysis. Build from your experiences this term to demonstrate your analytical skills, creativity, and intellectual risk taking.
You will also lose points for not demonstrating correct integration of quotations. Remember that you need to analyze quotations that you include. Select quotations in which the language is necessary. If you can put a quotation in your own words, you don't need to quote it and you can summarize its contents and cite the page number in parentheses. his website may also be helpful: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QuoLiterature.html
Submit your rough draft and final drafts on Blackboard at least thirty minutes before class on the dates indicated above.
Resources
Joyce Resources from http://www.joycesdublin.ie/?page_id=7
James Joyce research resources in Ireland:
University College Dublin Website
UCD – Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive project
UCD – James Joyce research Centre
James Joyce Centre Dublin
James Joyce Museum
UCD Scholarcast: Prof. Anne Fogarty, ‘James Joyce and Popular Culture’
Irish archive resources:
National Library of Ireland
National Library of Ireland Sources
National Library of Ireland – Clarke Collection
National Archives of Ireland
Irish Times Digital Archive
Research publications on Joyce and The Dead:
Kevin Whelan, Memories of the Dead: The Yale Journal of Criticism – Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 59-97
James Joyce Quarterly
James Joyce Literary Supplement
Genetic Joyce Studies
Joyce Studies Annual
Find out more about the music in The Dead:
Tenor – Enrico Caruso (1873 – 1921)
Irish Singer, Noel O Grady, performs Joyce’s songbook
Columbia University Joyce Coursework Audio page
Irish Singer, Elizabeth Cronin (1879-1956)
John McCormack – Irish Tenor (1884 – 1945)
Find out more about places in The Dead:
The Gresham Hotel
The Gresham during the Civil War 1922; New York Times archive
James Joyce House, 15 Usher’s Island
Ireland in 1904
National Archive links relevant to Joyce, his work and The Dead:
Gresham Hotel
15 Usher’s Island
Adam and Eve’s Church, Merchant’s Quay
Webb’s bookshop, Aston Quay
Mount Mellery
Clongowes Roll book: James A. Joyce
Census of Joyce Family 1901
Census Return for Mrs Mack 1901
Census return for Nora Barnacle 1901
Thom’s Directory 1904: Usher’s Island
Joyce Family Census 1911