IP Reflection
1. What is the most interesting interpretive insight that you gained into your particular short story through the process of developing this interpretive problem material? And why is this interesting?
The concepts that interest me the most are those that ask questions that don’t really have an answer. My first submission of this assignment was really a broad philosophical question asking; what would immortality mean to us? How would that effect us? What does this question say about human nature? Which obviously, is too broad for this assignment. So I revised it to “How does Shelley portray love, or more specifically, unconditional love?”
2. Now that you’ve gone ahead and finished the IP Showcase, what is the most difficult challenge that you faced during that process? Why was this such a challenge?
As I stated in my answer to question one, the most difficult part for me was pinning down a question that was answerable, instead of asking strings of abstract questions that would take a lot of thought and research to develop further.
3. Now that you’ve finished the IP Showcase, if you had a chance to conduct some research beyond just the scope of this one short story, what would that research look like? Where would you look? What kinds of resources would you look for? How might that research help you if you were to turn your essay into a more research-like oriented paper?
I actually did conduct some research while working on this project. The day of Halloween I attended a seminar on Shelley’s Frankenstein and used some of the information they shared in my essay. If I were to do more research, I’d most likely spend a lot of time in a library and talk to some of the faculty involved in the English or History department.
4. If you had taken a completely different approach to the analysis and discussion of this literary text (including the possibility of an approach that wasn’t built around an IP), what might that approach have looked like? A different kind of essay? An assignment that was set up more explicitly to include (or exclude) research material?
Interpretive dance? In all honesty I would be most inclined to pursue my original question as best as I could, even though my own naiveté and bias would make my essay entirely opinion, and maybe not enjoyable to most readers.
5. On the basis of this whole exercise and project, what is one aspect of reading and thinking about literary texts that might continue to prove beneficial for you in the future, after this course has ended? If there is no such benefit, why do you think that was the case?
This project to me was an exercise in analysis. I typically enjoy analyzing texts and this project was more practice.
The concepts that interest me the most are those that ask questions that don’t really have an answer. My first submission of this assignment was really a broad philosophical question asking; what would immortality mean to us? How would that effect us? What does this question say about human nature? Which obviously, is too broad for this assignment. So I revised it to “How does Shelley portray love, or more specifically, unconditional love?”
2. Now that you’ve gone ahead and finished the IP Showcase, what is the most difficult challenge that you faced during that process? Why was this such a challenge?
As I stated in my answer to question one, the most difficult part for me was pinning down a question that was answerable, instead of asking strings of abstract questions that would take a lot of thought and research to develop further.
3. Now that you’ve finished the IP Showcase, if you had a chance to conduct some research beyond just the scope of this one short story, what would that research look like? Where would you look? What kinds of resources would you look for? How might that research help you if you were to turn your essay into a more research-like oriented paper?
I actually did conduct some research while working on this project. The day of Halloween I attended a seminar on Shelley’s Frankenstein and used some of the information they shared in my essay. If I were to do more research, I’d most likely spend a lot of time in a library and talk to some of the faculty involved in the English or History department.
4. If you had taken a completely different approach to the analysis and discussion of this literary text (including the possibility of an approach that wasn’t built around an IP), what might that approach have looked like? A different kind of essay? An assignment that was set up more explicitly to include (or exclude) research material?
Interpretive dance? In all honesty I would be most inclined to pursue my original question as best as I could, even though my own naiveté and bias would make my essay entirely opinion, and maybe not enjoyable to most readers.
5. On the basis of this whole exercise and project, what is one aspect of reading and thinking about literary texts that might continue to prove beneficial for you in the future, after this course has ended? If there is no such benefit, why do you think that was the case?
This project to me was an exercise in analysis. I typically enjoy analyzing texts and this project was more practice.