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Serial Narratives, Networks, and the Police You’ve all been working on a topic, conducting research to find out what has been written about it in the interest of finding out where you will enter into that ongoing discussion

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Serial Narratives, Networks, and the Police You’ve all been working on a topic, conducting research to find out what has been written about it in the interest of finding out where you will enter into that ongoing discussion. The last three short assignments -- the annotated bibliography, the project outline, and the close reading paper -- based on your discussion leading have prompted you to think in two ways about your project: 1) how your analysis of your primary text(s) -whether the first season of The Wire, Dickens’s works or a combination of both, as well as any other primary documents you’ve found – journalism, theory, etc. -- offer you evidence in support of your analytical argument (the close reading paper and the project outline both absolutely require this work) and 2) How the secondary materials – previous scholarship on your primary texts – helps you understand what critical conversation on your topic has been, and how you can enter into that ongoing conversation (the annotated bibliography and the project outline both require this this work). Write an introductory paragraph, written for a scholar of your primary text(s), not for me or your classmates. This intended reader is familiar with the text, has some familiarity with the scholarship on the text, and is deeply interested in what YOU have to say about it and that scholarship. In your introduction be sure that you 1) identify what kinds of questions your paper engages with, whether critical, philosophical, literary, aesthetic, or sociological. 2) Identify what particular kinds of scenes/characters/types of shots, aesthetic strategies, etc. your project concentrates on. And 3) Offer your provisional argument: we all understand that this may still change slightly, though most of the introduction likely won’t. For the rest of the draft, you may do one of the following. 1. Offer an illustrative close reading of a primary source passage or clip that you connect to your overall thesis, linking it to the relevant scholarship (secondary sources) that you’ve consulted. 2. Provide a list of the sub-claims you plan to pursue with parenthetical references to both the clips/passages and the secondary sources you’ll use to support them. Provide a Works Cited page for every source you know you will use (you need not include annotations). Make sure that it is alphabetized. Length: -5 pages not inclusive of bibliography.