2. The City in History: Design Workshop In our first project, your thesis determined the shape of your essay.
3. The City in History: Design Workshop In our first project, your thesis determined the shape of your essay. In this project, the way you shape your materials will determine your “thesis.”
4. The City in History: Design Workshop Why the scare quotes around “thesis”?
5. The City in History: Design Workshop Why the scare quotes around “thesis”? Because your goal isn’t to take one position among many but to examine a theme from multiple perspectives, to reveal its complexity.
6. The City in History: Design Workshop Materials Theme Strategies
7. The City in History: Design Workshop What interviews did you select, and which stories within each are most interesting? Materials
8. The City in History: Design Workshop What larger topics emerge from the overlap between the different interviews? Theme
9. The City in History: Design Workshop Do you plan to compose a third-person narrative (like Branch) or a collection of first-person narratives (like Terkel)? Why? Where’s the potential drama in the narrative you’re imagining? How can you plotthat drama so as to bring the deeper meaning of your narrative? What transitionaltactics will you use to move that plot along? Strategies
10. The City in History: Design Workshop Materials Theme Strategies
11. The City in History: Design Workshop Reflection and consolidation: In a page or two, sketch out your plan: What do you hope to reveal through your narrative, and how will the ways you shape it help you? Be sure to save your reflection to your desktop. I’m going to ask you to revise it and include it as an appendix to your paper.
