(You will exchange your rough drafts with your peers. I will not pick up rough drafts, but you are welcome to come to office hours or make an appointment if you would like extra help. We can also use extra help appointments to count as a conference.) Issue Map Presentation due in class: Monday, March 2 Final Issue Map submission for grading: Monday, March 2, by midnight How do we map out knowledge? In this assignment, you will settle on a research question and begin exploring an issue of your choice along with the extenuating contexts surrounding your issue. This assignment aims to combine a traditional exploratory essay and annotated bibliography in a multimodal way. The information you collect here can be used for your argument drafts later in the semester. Assignment: Create a visual document, such as a PowerPoint, Prezi, or academic poster, in which you will describe and illustrate the wider context surrounding your research question. Depending on your topic, you might examine the history, people or demographics, and geography intersecting with your issue as well as the scientific, health, political, cultural, societal, or economic factors that might also be relevant. Include an Introduction with a thesis summing up your observations or continued questions about your field of research. Explain to your readers (your classmates and me): How long has this topic been debated? Where has this controversy taken place? When has this debate taken place? Who are the groups of people involved in this debate? Who are the 2 of 6 stakeholders? Who is most affected by this issue? Contemplate your topic and think broadly about potentially relevant intersections. Incorporate a general discussion of the literature and sources associated with your topic (see list included below). How has perusing various texts cultivated your insight into your topic? What was surprising to you? What are some of the arguments related to your topic? Try to show multiple viewpoints. Remember how other fields, viewpoints, or issues might intersect with your topic. Conclusion: What are your conclusions about your topic? What would you consider pursuing further as a research project? What are some lingering questions you might want to investigate? Present your findings to your classmates in small groups on Monday, March 2. Use this time to ask them to help you brainstorm even further about the potential arguments that you can explore related to your topic. Because this report is exploratory in nature and will likely contribute to the rest of your research projects this semester, collect and mention the following within your analysis. You decide where and how these requirements occur in your discussion. You may reuse some of these materials in upcoming assignments. 1) An example of visual rhetoric related to your topic Photographs, images, maps, websites, etc. 2) At least one data chart or diagram related to your topic Create a caption to cite it. I can help you in class. 3) A Twitter/X or Social Media reference related to your topic; consider following a disciplinary hashtag and see how it is used… 4) An encyclopedia reference giving broad-based, unbiased background information about your topic (not Wikipedia, thoughI will show you encyclopedic references in class). 5) An example of a scholarly article from LSU databases. 6) A book about your topic. Try to keep this recent. Take a look at Amazon, Good Reads, or the LSU library. See what kinds of books are being published in the field. E-books or hardcopy books are fine. You do not need to read this book. You just want to have it available to you for research later in the semester, if you find it a useful source. 7) A magazine or newspaper article about your topic. For numbers 5-7, you do not have to completely read through these sources for this paper; you can just review them and give a 1-sentence summary of what they are about. I attached an example of what It should look like. I want this to be about doping in sports. You need to get links from LSU Library

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