Instructions: Please read thoroughly the directions for eachquestion below and please answer each question completely. These questions will require you to provide the focus, details and, purpose of your proposed research essay in response to the Research Essay Prompt requiring you to produce a carefully constructed consideration and extension of John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid’s “The Social Life of Documents”. Please type your answers directly onto this document and please do not delete any of the directions.
Question 1. Your Document and Its Social Life. Value: 3 Points.
1.A. In a complete paragraph of at least 100-200 words, please describe in detail the “document” you have chosen for the focus of your research essay. Please describe in detail the “social life” of this document.
1.B. Please provide below, in correct APA or MLA Style, the complete bibliographical information for TWO primary sourcesyou will be using.
Question 2. Extending the Conversation. Value: 2 Points.
In a complete paragraph of at least 100-200 words, please describe in detail how your proposed examination of your document and its social life will extend and/or complicate the discussion begun by Brown and Duguid in “The Social Life of Documents.” Please cite and reference specific passages from “The Social Life of Documents” and apply them to the specifics of your chosen document and its social life.
Question 3. The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Sources. Value: 3 Points.
3.A. Please provide below, in correct APA or MLA Style, the complete bibliographical information for TWO scholarly, peer-reviewed sources you will be using. Please ensure that each source is a scholarly, peer-reviewed article of at least 10 pages, and NOT a review, an introduction, a book, a popular source, or a graduate student thesis.
3.B. In a complete paragraph of at least 100-200 words, please describe in detail how BOTH of these scholarly, peer-reviewed articles will elevate your examination of your chosen document and its social life. Please cite and reference specific passagesfrom BOTH articles and apply them to the specifics of your chosen document and its social life.
Question 4. Your Working Thesis. Value: 2 Points.
In a complete paragraph of at least 150-200 words, please type below your Working Thesis for your Research Essay. Please understand that this is your first attempt at your thesis and that it will obviously evolve and change as you work towards the completion of your Research Essay. Your thesis should incorporate as a LENS some particular aspects of “The Social Life of Documents” through which you will be reading the unique elements of your document and its social life.
