Home / SFF / Building a New Idea
Stage 4
Build an Idea
Warp to...
- Our Current Grid
- Material for Presentation
- What's your Purpose of the Research
- Former Ideas in the Course
Our Grid
Material for a Project
- The following will help you center your research toward a topic
- Genesis of interest
- Bring the sexy (What causes others to be alerted to your presentation)
- Why do your research findings matter?
- What does it add to the understanding of your topic?
- What would professors and teachers get out of your presentation?
- What's the main point you want your audience to understand
- What's the most interesting story from your research?
(Amended from Portwood-Stacer's) The Book Proposal Book
What purpose does your research serve?
- Undergraduate level Literary Device Paper: Applied Concepts and Devices
- Unacceptable for PCA.
- Applies an older, traditional concept or narrative device to a narrative.
- Using symbols, metaphors, motifs, etc.
- The Literary Devices, which are basic Middle School or High School concepts.
- Undergraduate Level Theory Driven Paper: Applied Theories
- Unacceptable for PCA.
- Applies an older, traditional theory to a narrative, such as Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Sartre's concept of Dread/Angst, or Veblen's Conspicuous Consumption.
- Level 1 through Level 8 theory papers written in my Composition 2 course.
- Shaping Popular Discourse through Professional Writing: Adding to a current discussion among the Literati.
- Like memes, there are usually ideas du jour among the Literati. Sometimes these last for weeks; sometimes for years. Sometimes they rise out of more academic work; sometimes they are just a discussion that someone starts, and the discussion roils forth.
- Currently, Artificial Intelligence is one among many Literati ideas du jour
- Another Literati du jour ideas is automation, such as the article "Forget Fears of Automation, Your Job is Probably Bullshit Anyway
- Former Student's PCA research on the Death of Adulthood in American Culture added to a Literati discussion from a few years ago that concerned the lack of mature (40+ year old) characters in TV shows.
- Literati: See Stage 2 for the list of popular Literati sources.
- These literati ideas du jour are not what's in the swiftly churning 24-hour news cycle or what is "trending" or what is the latest hot button, open-nerve, twitter-esque/ tumbler-speak fleeting and flitty mindscape.
- Shaping Popular or Academic Discourse: Travelling an idea across disciplines.
- Uses an idea/concept/theory from one discipline (such as Psychology) to apply to another discipline to create a new are of research.
- Such as Hailey's research of personality disorders on female characters in Sci-fi & Fantasy.
- Or, this idea that uses psychology in the chapter "The Psychological Process and Cost of Killing in an Undead Wasteland" The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead
- Or, this article that uses a concept of Risk Society from economics to apply to post-apocalyptic stories.
- Master's Level Work to Shape the Discipline: Amend/Update a current theory
- Uses an existing theory but updates/ amends that theory toward a more applicable use concerning narratives and/or an era/worldview.
- Sonnel's grief cycle inferred from hero films rather than pulled from psychology and applied to films. While this is a new cycle, she amended/updated current psychological grief cycles in relation to hero films.
- This concept of Anthrop-scene in "The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed"
- PhD Level Work to Shape the Discipline: Creating and utilizing a New Theory
- Created a new theory to analyze narratives, sometimes including how that helps us analyze our world in a new way.
- A new theory can help shape a discipline (such as Humanities, or English Literature, or Film)
- Guitton's research (using the burn chart on He-man characters) created a new method by which we can see the limits of creativity.
- Matt Hudson's extension of Barthes' idea of the Enigma and the idea of Primary and Secondary characters to create the concept of the Enigmatic Tertiary character.
- Kristina Hill's revision and new theory of the term "cultural infiltration" allows us to understand a new subversion of/about power, knowledge, and how films can enter/ irrupt into a broader market.
Former Ideas in the Course
- Genesis of interest
- Bring the sexy (What causes others to be alerted to your presentation)
- Why do your research findings matter?
- What does it add to the understanding of your topic?
- What would professors and teachers get out of your presentation?
- What's the main point you want your audience to understand
- What's the most interesting story from your research?
(Amended from Portwood-Stacer's) The Book Proposal Book
- Unacceptable for PCA.
- Applies an older, traditional concept or narrative device to a narrative.
- Using symbols, metaphors, motifs, etc.
- The Literary Devices, which are basic Middle School or High School concepts.
- Unacceptable for PCA.
- Applies an older, traditional theory to a narrative, such as Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Sartre's concept of Dread/Angst, or Veblen's Conspicuous Consumption.
- Level 1 through Level 8 theory papers written in my Composition 2 course.
- Like memes, there are usually ideas du jour among the Literati. Sometimes these last for weeks; sometimes for years. Sometimes they rise out of more academic work; sometimes they are just a discussion that someone starts, and the discussion roils forth.
- Currently, Artificial Intelligence is one among many Literati ideas du jour
- Another Literati du jour ideas is automation, such as the article "Forget Fears of Automation, Your Job is Probably Bullshit Anyway
- Former Student's PCA research on the Death of Adulthood in American Culture added to a Literati discussion from a few years ago that concerned the lack of mature (40+ year old) characters in TV shows.
- Literati: See Stage 2 for the list of popular Literati sources.
- These literati ideas du jour are not what's in the swiftly churning 24-hour news cycle or what is "trending" or what is the latest hot button, open-nerve, twitter-esque/ tumbler-speak fleeting and flitty mindscape.
- Uses an idea/concept/theory from one discipline (such as Psychology) to apply to another discipline to create a new are of research.
- Such as Hailey's research of personality disorders on female characters in Sci-fi & Fantasy.
- Or, this idea that uses psychology in the chapter "The Psychological Process and Cost of Killing in an Undead Wasteland" The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead
- Or, this article that uses a concept of Risk Society from economics to apply to post-apocalyptic stories.
- Uses an existing theory but updates/ amends that theory toward a more applicable use concerning narratives and/or an era/worldview.
- Sonnel's grief cycle inferred from hero films rather than pulled from psychology and applied to films. While this is a new cycle, she amended/updated current psychological grief cycles in relation to hero films.
- This concept of Anthrop-scene in "The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed"
- Created a new theory to analyze narratives, sometimes including how that helps us analyze our world in a new way.
- A new theory can help shape a discipline (such as Humanities, or English Literature, or Film)
- Guitton's research (using the burn chart on He-man characters) created a new method by which we can see the limits of creativity.
- Matt Hudson's extension of Barthes' idea of the Enigma and the idea of Primary and Secondary characters to create the concept of the Enigmatic Tertiary character.
- Kristina Hill's revision and new theory of the term "cultural infiltration" allows us to understand a new subversion of/about power, knowledge, and how films can enter/ irrupt into a broader market.
