Why does the success of ‘Squid Game’ and Korean pop culture continue to surprise people?
First, you’ll have a chance to read through possible sources. When you are ready, you’ll download the Mini Assignment 2 Template. In Mini Assignment 2, you will complete a series of tasks that help you understand your chosen source. You did these tasks for the Critique Essay during the first half of the semester. In later units, we’ll develop the critique of this source using research.
“Research,” for our purposes, means to find and explore sources that illuminate a primary source–the argument or narrative you select, and enable you to answer a central question(s) about that primary source.
In this way, the Research-Driven Critique Essay is different from the kind in which you learn about and write on a topic. Your focus is not so much the topic itself, but the way the main source is written/ techniques the author uses to convey their claim. You are using research to write a more informed response to that source.
The Research-Driven Critique builds directly on skills learned in the Critique Essay. These similarities and differences can be summarized as follows:
Critique Essay (Part I of the course)
Research-driven Critique (Part II of the course)
Based on an argument source
Contains a summary section
Contains a response section
Based on either an argument or a narrative source
Contains a summary section
Contains a response section
Uses research to develop the response