Part II Project Guidelines: Creative Anthropological Accounts: Graphic

Novel/Zine, Blog, Twitter Feed, Photo Album, etc (20%)

DUE Wednesday December 7th
Part II of this project will take the data you collected in Part I to produce a
CREATIVE ethnographic product. What does this mean exactly? Instead of
simply writing a paper about the community in question, you will express
the data in a more accessible format. For example, perhaps your community
group would be interested in a brief photo album of their lives. Or perhaps
writing a blog or creating a short zine or Graphic Novel would be of interest.
Your creative account may employ the use of art, stories, poetry, narratives,
recipes and so forth. Because this element of the project is collaborative you
should expect to make use of both interviews from Part I of the project as
well as additional conversations and meetings with members of this
community of practice.
NOTE: YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO WORK WITH THE SAME
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE AS IN PART 1! That said, you may find it
significantly easier to work with the same group as you have already
conducted some degree of background research!
The deliverables for Part II include:
1) your creative account (a website link, a paper copy of your zine or graphic
novel, a DVD of your film, etc) AND
2) A 3-5 Page Paper that:
A) introduces the community you researched
B) discusses your interviews, community group and topics covered
C) what creative method you are using and why and
D) conclusions about how the final product turned out and how the
community group will be utilizing it.
Papers should be in 12-point font, Times, Times New Roman, or
Cambria, double-spaced with standard margins. All papers must
include a works cited page with a minimum of THREE (3) Peer
Reviewed texts cited! NOTE: YOU MAKE CITE SOURCES THAT ARE
NOT PEER REVIEWED SUCH AS COMMUNITY WEBSITES, MEDIA
SOURCES ETC BUT THESE WILL NOT COUNT TOWARDS YOUR
MINIMUM OF 3 PEER PREVIEWED SOURCES!

I: Creative Outcome Guidelines:

A) Zine Guidelines:
Your zine should explore a particular topic as it relates to the community of
practice you worked with and, as discussed in course texts, may employ the
use of art, stories, poetry, narratives, recipes and so forth. Your zine should
be 7-10 pages (1/4 sheet size) and utilize course readings/media to highlight
your topic exploration.
B) Graphic Novel Guidelines:
The graphic novel will explore your topic through a narrative style in
a graphic novel. These may be produced with electronic media OR with nonelectronic media. Graphic novels produced electronically, and nonelectronically, must exhibit a clear investment of time. Artistic quality will
not be factored into the grading process.
The graphic novel must cover a minimum of 5 to 7 pages, with 6
frames per page. You may use full-sheet or sheet pages and may use
front and back of the sheet. ONE SHEET OF PAPER=2 PAGES if both
sides of the sheet of paper are used! TOTAL FRAMES REQUIRED=3042 ANY SIZE OR SHAPE (half sheet, full sheet, etc)
C) Other Guidelines:
If you would like to create some other kind of creative outcome (an
art installation, an applied/public flyer for use by the community you worked
with, a booklet about the community group, blog posts, twitter feeds, etc)
that is not a zine or graphic novel, you should feel free to! The best way to
determine whether what you would like to do meets the requirements of this
project is to contact me FIRST so that we can discuss your plans!
II: The Paper should:
1) Have a CLEAR thesis statement! (example: In this paper I explore
what it means to be a member of the Gummi Bear club at RIC.
Specifically, I explore how consuming Gummi products is an
important element of being in the club. Finally, I discuss how my
production of a gummi bear mold will be used by the club.
2) Use at LEAST 3 academic sources. These MUST be cited and
properly listed in a works cited or bibliographic page. Feel free to use
texts from the class and outside texts. ANY FACT CLAIMS OR
CONCEPTS THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN MUST BE CITED!
3) Be 3-5 pages, in 12-point font, double-spaced. Papers that are triplespaced or are in a font larger than 12-point and are less than 3 pages
full pages will not be read.

III: Possible paper structure:

1) One page: introduces the community or topics you researched (who are
they? What do they do? Where are they located?)
2) One to Two Pages: Discuss topics that came up during interviews or
important elements of being in this community of practice. In this section of
the paper you explore the topic, provide background, key issues, who is
impacted, theoretical elements, etc (THIS IS THE BODY OF THE
PAPER! PROVIDE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS NEEDED IN
ORDER FOR YOUR READER TO UNDERSTAND HOW/WHY THIS IS
AN ISSUE!!!)
3) Half a Page to 1 Page: what creative method you are using and why?
What did you do? How is that important/useful to the community of practice
you worked with?
4) Half a Page to 1 Page: Conclusions about how the final product turned
out and how the community group will be utilizing it.