Good evening, class. Hope you are doing well. The quarter is quickly advancing (or so it seems to me) and our work will soon be finished. Today I will return the graded final narrative drafts and any other paperwork you have submitted. The plan is to review the field work assigned, the final draft work of your image-based research essay, allow for some readings and grammar review, and watch a film, or part of one, namely Boyhood (2014), directed by Richard Linklater, a coming-of-age story that was filmed over the course of 12 years as the characters themselves grew older. The director began with a sketchy script and allowed the story to develop over time, getting everyone together once a year to shoot, and revising as events suggested, even to incorporating the real-life experiences of his cast, a thing not done before. The film may be used as the basis of your individual research paper.
You must begin researching the final project, which is to be 500-750 words in full MLA format (all sources documented). I encourage you to focus on a fresh, timely subject (or make it fresh, show its currency) about which much information can readily be found, and that you have a personal stake in, by which I mean the subject really does matter to you. Your writing will thus convey greater credibility.
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