Culture and dance paper – outline, anotated bibliography, paper

1500 words

TOPIC OF THE PAPER

Dance and movie performance of race and cultural identity in the dance/movie industry

THESIS STATEMENT

Through
dance, people of different races and cultures around the world have
been able to communicate or share costumes, cultures, and traditions
through movements of body on dance stages or in movies. Discrimination
of minorities in dance and movies industries should be prohibited as so
many of them have a rich cultural history to offer to the world.

*Side-note, please add some type of movie references if you can 🙂

OUTLINE & ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INSTRUCTIONS

1. Outline: Should be in bullet points and offer a break-down of how you plan to organize your paper. Name each section and provide a 1-2 sentence description of what you plan to include in this section. The
outline should be at least 250 words long. You are encouraged to
approach this by thinking of the themes you plan to address and like a
map of the argument you plan to pursue. No need to get too specific and
try to capture what you plan to do in each paragraph. An example of
sections comprising a research paper is included below. (This is just an
example and NOT a template of a suggested structure. You should
structure your paper according to what best serves your topic)

• • • Introduction and thesis statement
    • Historical Overview of Dance Genre / Description of performance
    • Contextualization that introduces the significance of the argument
    • Sections unpacking your argument
    • Conclusion

2. Annotated Bibliography: An
annotated bibliography is a list of sources, where you provide a short
summary of what the sources are about. For the purpose of completing
this step, you need to do 2 things:

a) Identify and list at least 4
sources that you plan to consult for your research paper. Out of these 4
sources, 2 need to be academic (either academic books, or scholarly
journal articles) The sources need to follow the proper APA citation format.

b)
Out of the 4 sources you need to choose 2 (at least 1 of which needs to
be academic) and provide a short summary of the main points of the
source and how you plan to incorporate them into your project. Each
summary and statement of how you’ll tie the source to your project
should be at least 100 words long. In order to complete this
part you need to have read the 2 articles / sources you are choosing to
summarize (if it’s a book consider reading the chapter that applies the
most to your research). You are expected to provide the summary in your
own words and not to copy and paste it from another source. Pasting from
another source is considered plagiarism and will be pursued according
to academic misconduct policies.

Grading / Evaluation Criteria:

• Does your submission closely follow the guidelines and include all required components?
• Is your submission within the word limit?
• Does
  your outline demonstrate adequate engagement with the project and
  provide a thoughtful and realistic structure for a 6-7 page paper?
• Is the bibliography provided clearly related to the research project?
• Does the bibliography include 2 academic sources?
• Does your summary and statement clearly showcase how the sources relate to your research?
• Is one of the summaries you are providing about an academic source?