FORMAL PAPER

Description of Paper 4 Project: For Formal Paper 4, you will need to combine research with personal experience to compose a multimodal project about either a “Cosmopolitan Canopy” or “Contact Zone” that you have encountered. You will first compose this paper in Word and then present it through Medium.com, an Internet publishing website. You must submit your polished Formal Paper 4, including the images you have taken, in a Word document to the appropriate Assignment box in Canvas. The length of this paper should be about 1200 words, not including a Works Cited page. You should embed images in your Word document but you will be able to embed videos in Medium only. You do not have to publish your work in Medium but you do need to share the URL with the class.

Paper Topic 2: Write about a “Contact Zone”

Take a selfie of yourself in a space that you consider to be a “contact zone.” You must include yourself in the image! This will be the proof that you have actually gone and visited the place! You can use up to two additional images to enhance your essay or illustrate specific points you want to make about the place. You do not need to be present in the two additional images.
Embed your selfie into a Word document and compose a 1200 word essay that describes your image and explains how the image reveals the character of the landscape you have captured as a “contact zone.” You may position the images strategically in your essay so that they fit cohesively into your presentation.
Include captions for all your images. Use MLA style (consult the guide I’ve included in the “Handouts” module in Canvas).
In your essay, include a description of the place you’ve chosen: What is it called? Where is it located? What medium did you use to take your image (what model phone or camera)? Where is the space located geographically? What is the history of the place (you will need to do solid research to find this out)? What aspects of the space make it a contact zone (draw on Pratt here for support, using direct quotations from her essay to define the idea of the “contact zone” and to illustrate what this term means)? Explain how the selfie image you took captures or complicates the idea of a “contact zone.” If you decide that the space supports the idea of a contact zone, address how the image you took captures the idea of a contact zone. What are the details that support this view? Alternatively, if you think the space does not support a contact zone, address what it does capture. How the space complicates, qualifies, or puts stress on the idea of the “contact zone”? What are the details that support this view? Last, address how this “contact zone” reflects or reveals larger social, political, or cultural issues related to your experience in it.
In the course of your argument, you must include a selfie of you in the place you are describing, and you may embed up to two additional images that do or do not include you in them. You can also include a brief video clip if you like (videos will only work on Medium). Should you choose to include more than one image or video, be sure to integrate the images you include into your argument so that the images and the text work together to create a coherent whole.

Task 2: Submit a clear 300-word summary of your project that includes the URL to your Medium.com page on the appropriate discussion forum.

FORMAL PAPER

Description of Paper 4 Project: For Formal Paper 4, you will need to combine research with personal experience to compose a multimodal project about either a “Cosmopolitan Canopy” or “Contact Zone” that you have encountered. You will first compose this paper in Word and then present it through Medium.com, an Internet publishing website. You must submit your polished Formal Paper 4, including the images you have taken, in a Word document to the appropriate Assignment box in Canvas. The length of this paper should be about 1200 words, not including a Works Cited page. You should embed images in your Word document but you will be able to embed videos in Medium only. You do not have to publish your work in Medium but you do need to share the URL with the class.

Paper Topic 2: Write about a “Contact Zone”

Take a selfie of yourself in a space that you consider to be a “contact zone.” You must include yourself in the image! This will be the proof that you have actually gone and visited the place! You can use up to two additional images to enhance your essay or illustrate specific points you want to make about the place. You do not need to be present in the two additional images.
Embed your selfie into a Word document and compose a 1200 word essay that describes your image and explains how the image reveals the character of the landscape you have captured as a “contact zone.” You may position the images strategically in your essay so that they fit cohesively into your presentation.
Include captions for all your images. Use MLA style (consult the guide I’ve included in the “Handouts” module in Canvas).
In your essay, include a description of the place you’ve chosen: What is it called? Where is it located? What medium did you use to take your image (what model phone or camera)? Where is the space located geographically? What is the history of the place (you will need to do solid research to find this out)? What aspects of the space make it a contact zone (draw on Pratt here for support, using direct quotations from her essay to define the idea of the “contact zone” and to illustrate what this term means)? Explain how the selfie image you took captures or complicates the idea of a “contact zone.” If you decide that the space supports the idea of a contact zone, address how the image you took captures the idea of a contact zone. What are the details that support this view? Alternatively, if you think the space does not support a contact zone, address what it does capture. How the space complicates, qualifies, or puts stress on the idea of the “contact zone”? What are the details that support this view? Last, address how this “contact zone” reflects or reveals larger social, political, or cultural issues related to your experience in it.
In the course of your argument, you must include a selfie of you in the place you are describing, and you may embed up to two additional images that do or do not include you in them. You can also include a brief video clip if you like (videos will only work on Medium). Should you choose to include more than one image or video, be sure to integrate the images you include into your argument so that the images and the text work together to create a coherent whole.

Task 2: Submit a clear 300-word summary of your project that includes the URL to your Medium.com page on the appropriate discussion forum.