Research plan
To be honest I have never again written anything like a lyric essay before where the aspects of my own life and figurative language are integrated in a bid to bring more taste to an article. Before I embark on this journey I hope to write about the childhood experiences and how they influenced my character and beliefs as a person. I will focus mainly on my early school life and ideas that I have include;
• My experience in martial arts as a young child
• My childhood experience with religion
• Growing up in a middle class family
Project prompt:
Much of Susan Griffin’s essay is personal narrative, but there is a great deal of research from both history and science in the essay. She moved from telling a personal story that might have been motivating to some readers to sharing it in a way that made it culturally relevant to many more. The incorporation of the history and science does something to the personal narrative, and the personal narrative does something different as it is incorporated into the science and history.
There are some interesting similarities to the way our textbook tells the history of writing and the ways Griffin tells a narrative about her family — both our textbook and Griffin interject other important pieces of “story” into the tale they are crafting to show us something about the central story they are sharing. We’re going to use both to construct our own lyric essay incorporating research and personal narrative.
Go back to the Griffin essay analysis work you conducted a couple of weeks ago to review your analysis of how she incorporated history and science research into the personal essay. Why do you think she chose to research the topics she did? Why has she chosen to incorporate the bits that she has where she has? Take some notes on this for yourself.
Consider what part of your own story you will want to tell. Use the question from the “invitation to reflect and write” at the end of chapter 16 in our textbook to help you think about rites of passage you’ve experienced, as well as to help you think about yourself as a writer. What story can you tell? What story might you tell if you told it through a different lens? Try drafting your own story a few different ways as a starting point, or at least outlining the points you might want to include.
Write a lyric essay in which you tell a reader the story of you through a lens of science, history, art, and/or other topics and fields of study. Use the textbook and the Griffin essay as a guide for how this can work to intersperse a kind of commentary on your narrative with gathered research and additional narrative.
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