For this unit, you will compose an annotated bibliography and an exploratory research essay that survey topics and texts affiliated with the nature and tensions of human love—more specifically, the biocultural dynamics, evolutionary psychology, and aesthetic representations of eros.
First, assigned readings will establish an inquiry baseline and an analytical-lens framework.
Then, you will build on those texts by conducting some modest directed research, which will be reflected in your annotated bibliography.
Finally, an exploratory essay will follow and constitute the capstone project for this unit and our course. Rather than a more recognizable formal paper in which you craft a logical chain of claims and arguments to be posited and delivered to your reader in the depersonalized voice of a blind-clockmaker academician, this essay will be looser and more reflective, creative, and personalized in nature—in accord with the exploratory-essay guidelines you will read about in this unit’s affiliated textbook, Bruce Ballenger’s The Curious Researcher (2018).
Together, these assignments should display a curious and free-thinking, yet still rigorous and analytical, mind at work. The annotated bibliography will test and exhibit your critical-reading skills, summary and text-assessment skills, command over a system of formatting conventions, and research competencies. The essay should register an engaged curiosity about the given topics, an ability to discover and synthesize disparate ideas and findings into a symphonic whole, and effective deployment of not only the rhetorical moves of academic writing discussed this semester but also a more personalized writerly voice and a signature self-expression.
Please pay attention!
After you receive the order, you need to read a lot of documents. Please read the introduction of essay first.
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