{"id":157,"date":"2017-06-05T05:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/haradaenglish1a\/?p=157"},"modified":"2017-06-05T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T07:08:07","slug":"applying-archival-research-to-essay-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/haradaenglish1a\/2017\/06\/05\/applying-archival-research-to-essay-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Archival Research to Essay Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon making my multimodal fake magazine images, I realized that yeah, I tried to take on way too much for my actual research essay. The breadth of the subject was just a hair too much and there wasn&#8217;t enough depth. Despite taking into account Tirabassi&#8217;s principle of closure when doing the actual research for my essay, I forgot to incorporate it into articulating my argument and findings.<\/p>\n<p>To remind any readers, Tirabassi&#8217;s principle of closure is defined as such:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;the researcher&#8217;s understanding that there are inherent gaps in archival records and that while the archive is complex and rich, it cannot be searched exhaustively&#8221; (Tirabassi 171-2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Translating this to writing however, it means that you as a writer cannot cover all aspects of a subject within a single paper, article, essay, or whatever you&#8217;re writing &#8211; you have to recognize the limitations of your narrative, address them, and narrow your focus to a simplified topic within the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I was able to apply this to my mutlimodal project. Though not as detailed, and designed as a *fake* educational magazine directed towards students, it is short, sweet, and to the point. Rather than exhaustively explaining all aspects of my argument, I instead offered up a simplified version of what I had been trying to say in my research paper. Here&#8217;s a quick sneak peep of the final version &#8211; though I&#8217;m just showing the cover to my fake magazine.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/qhi0weTxm19O8WuS6LesrRv4iz6DjcmRBg-x6FS-WlyKXpKAaVnv90IBhaJe7ZekoTHEI8ZWME5jRGw=w2560-h1406-rw\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: K. Harada<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon making my multimodal fake magazine images, I realized that yeah, I tried to take on way too much for my actual research essay. The breadth of the subject was just a hair too much and there wasn&#8217;t enough depth. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/haradaenglish1a\/2017\/06\/05\/applying-archival-research-to-essay-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29,19,31],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-blogs","tag-archival-research","tag-archives","tag-undergrads"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"kkharada","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/haradaenglish1a\/author\/kkharada\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/haradaenglish1a\/category\/spring-blogs\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Spring Blogs<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Upon making my multimodal fake magazine images, I realized that yeah, I tried to take on way too much for my actual research essay. 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