Research
How did your research and secondary sources influence your project, and where can your reader see the result of this research and learning? Offer specific examples from your project that demonstrate the use or relevance of secondary sources you included in your analysis/proposal.
The creation of the project about Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the puzzles the main character has to face with and collect is predetermined by a number of factors: an independent investigation about the writer’s life, a variety of secondary sources, personal attitudes to the primary source. The research helps to comprehend the true nature of the author’s intentions and the conditions under which the story was created.
It was interesting to learn that Lewis Carroll was known due to his unwillingness to follow certain rules and orders. This fact was mentioned in the project. The secondary sources included in the analysis presented the information about the author and how it was possible to analyze the novel and comprehend its main themes and motifs. The attention to a personal evaluation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland also helps to make the project unique and unusual.
Writing/Production Choices
Your project should be as close of a match as realistically possible to the style, format, and conventions of a real-world type of writing. How does your work match the three examples you used to understand the expectations and characteristics of the kind of writing you chose? Note specific examples of your choices in terms of tone/style, content, argument/analysis strategies, citation, layout/format, etc., and explain how these mimic or interact with the three specific texts you used as models for your work.
The project under consideration is a good example of how the style, format, and conventions should be organized in a real-world type of writing. First, the use of secondary sources and the ideas of real people about the novel serve as a solid basis of research. Second, the cases of comparison prove that in the project, there are no intentions to hide the truth about the nonsensical elements of the novel. Finally, the presence of counterarguments makes the project more realistic and open to discussions. For example, the citations used in the text turn out to be the most powerful explanations of the ideas offered. It is hard to neglect the information given, still, the tone of writing provides the reader with a chance to share his/her own positions and understanding of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Interpretation/Digging Deeper
What parts of your project demonstrate that you are offering unique insight, original idea, or innovative approach to a particular topic? When/where does your project comment on implicit ideologies, analysis of authorial choices, or patterns across texts? Note specific examples from your project that demonstrate original thought or new, innovative ideas.
The project demonstrates a unique insight into a particular topic due to the usage of counterarguments and the attention to the fact that not all people are eager to define Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a bright example of successful children’s literature due to the author’s desire to neglect any rule or moral defined by society. The project aims at proving that it is normal for children to follow their own dreams and needs in order to enjoy this life. It is said that Carroll wants to underline that Alice’s story is a story of each person, whose time to grow up has come. Throughout the whole text, certain attention is paid to some new interpretations of the old idea. For example, the attempt to prove that Carroll’s intention to explain how the world can be understood from a unique perspective has been made.
Critical Approach
What did it mean to take a critical thinking approach to your topic in the specific kind of project you created? Offer specific examples from your project to support your answer, and comment on what “critical thinking” means in the kind of project you chose to create.
Critical thinking is a type of thinking that requires the presence of clear and reasoned ideas and a powerful critique that introduces the thinker’s personal point of view. To make a critical thinking approach to the topic of the project under consideration means to explain whether the chosen methods and concepts are appropriate for the chosen example of children’s literature, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. For example, it is possible to consider the offers introduced at the end of the project and throw away all doubts and templates in order to enjoy and take as much as possible from Carroll’s novel. It is possible not to agree with the project ideas, still, it is necessary to give clear and definite explanations and support them with evidence.