Research plan

Image Selection and Research Plan

Please answer the following questions as specifically as possible. Number your responses in your submission. You may not change your image after you make your selection, so be sure of your choice before submitting this assignment.

1) Please identify the Pulitzer Prize image you’ve selected from the directions and links provided in this week’s module. Provide whether you selected feature or breaking news photography, the year, the name of the photographer(s), and the publication where the image first appeared. All information is required.

2) Explain the purpose of the research essay you wish to write about this image in the language of “So what?” for your readers. Why should your audience care? Will you be informing, arguing, or analyzing? Do you want to inform an audience about the event/issue depicted? Argue for a point of view on the event/issue depicted? Analyze the artistic elements of the photograph itself? If you have another idea, please describe it in full detail. Note: If you’ve been doing well in the course, challenge yourself to write in an argumentative or analytical mode instead of just informing.

3) For whom will you be writing? Describe your potential audience. Would it be people who are familiar with the issues/event in the image or not? Citizens of a particular nation? Potential donors? Potential victims? Imagine as specific an audience as you can.

4) For each of the five sources required in this research essay, share your research plan. Please Note: At least two of your sources must come from the library databases:

Source 1:

a) What kind of perspective/information do you need?

b) Where do you plan to look for this source? The Internet? The library databases? An interview with an expert?