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This assignment is a continuation of the work you started in Unit 2. In fact, by the time you begin writing the rough draft of this assignment, you will have completed the research you outlined when responding to questions 1-4 in your Unit 2 proposal. This assignment asks you to make sense of that research by following the two-step process outlined below.

Step 1: Please respond to the following questions:

5. What did you discover about your topic after carefully and thoroughly reading the four articles you chose to pursue? In other words, what are your findings? As you respond to this question, you should not only reveal your discoveries, but also suggest (a) whether these discoveries confirmed or subverted your expectations and (b) how they might support or challenge popular or “common sense” understandings of your topic (as you discussed when completing question #2 of your proposal).

6. If you were to use the research you conducted here to develop a larger and more formal project appropriate for your major field of study, (a) what form or genre would your writing take and (b) what method would you use? Would you expand your work to develop a case study?…an ethnography?…a comparative analysis?…a theorem?…a literature review…a lab experiment?…something else entirely? Would your method or approach rely on a series of interviews…empirical data collection…qualitative or quantitative analysis? Please justify your choice of genre and method by briefly explaining their appropriateness within the context of your discipline. Hint: I would recommend that you reexamine the writing you did for RWA #7 as you craft your response to this question (as well as the one below).

7. If you pursued this larger, more formal project, how would you structure it in accordance with the conventions of your discipline?