Offer

at least one peer-reviewed, resources

from Cressman Library’s databases that you

will utilize in your research paper. Peer-reviewed articles are written by experts and

are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in the

journal in order to insure the article's quality.

Below you will need to

offer a summary

of the source’s claims and

explain how the peer-reviewed source will be useful in

your analysis of your icon.

This means that you will need to indicate if you will use

the source to do one of the following: create tension; produce a concession

paragraph; offer a refutation paragraph; and/or build on the writer’s claims.

Be

sure to provide the citation information for the source to this proposal and/or offer

(if available) the links to the sources on this form.

1.

You will need to provide

at least

two non-peer reviewed source

. These articles can be

from reputable periodicals (e.g. magazines or newspapers) such as theAtlantic.com,

Popmatters.com, TheNewYorkTimes.com, Washington.post.com, Salon.com, Time.com,

etc.

Please offer a summary of each article’s claims and then be sure to explain how

the sources will be useful to your project. This means that you will need to indicate

if you will use the source to do one of the following: create tension; produce a

concession paragraph; offer a refutation paragraph; and/or build on the writer’s

claims.

Be sure to provide the citation information for the source to this proposal

and/or offer (if available) the links to the sources on this form.

1.

2.

Provide some preliminary exploratory questions

about your icon that may serve to

guide your analysis of your selected icon.

Remember that your analysis needs to

critically examine the meanings associated with your icon.

Example Exploratory Questions:

Does Martha Stewart encourage or undermine

snobbery? In what way is Lady Gaga a symbol of female empowerment?