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Guidelines for Research Paper 1

Field Report on A Protest Event

Go to the site of on-going protest event, and complete a field report. You may form research group of two or three people. The course website will open a chat room to share information as to where to find a protest event.

The report is 6-page long (4 pages if doing it individually), double-spaced. It consists of two main parts. The report is required to be written as a research paper with fluent narratives. It cannot be a list of bullet-point answers. The paper consists two main sections.

Observation Section, with content that answers at least 8 of the following questions.

1. Brief summary of the event (where, when, who and what)

2. Size

3. Claims (Targets)

4. Organizations

5. Elementary Forms (Conversation clusters; Common or convergent directions of focus; Queuing; Collective locomotion; Vocalization; common tempo/substance)

6. Summary of the signs, slogans

7. Content of speeches

8. What do protesters do to show they are worthy?

9. What do protesters do to show they are united?

10. What do protesters do to show they are committed?

11. What do protesters do to show they are numerous?

12. Violence (from protesters)

13. Violence (from police)

14. Countermovement protests

15. Others

Interview Section, answering at least 6 of the following questions

1. Brief bios of the interviewees

2. Brief summary of the movement’s history

3. Leaders, organizations, participants, and websites

4. Were activities rather than protest such as fund raising, workshops, voting registrations?

5. Perceived problems and injustice

6. Their theories

7. Suggested changes

8. Goals

9. Allies in the government

10. Allies in other social movements and organizations

11. Others

Notes on Group Project Mechanics

· Fill free to use email and the chat room to find partners

· The group size can be no more than three people. To ensure cooperation, the submission includes a track-change history file of your writing, a memo outlining the cooperation, as well as the final and clean copy.

· If a group breaks up midway in the quarter before the final paper is completed, each member of the group has to submit a paper individually.

Notes on Finding Protest Event

· Searching the websites of social movement organizations will lead to announcements

· A course chat room is set up at Canvas. Some links are already available

· Please share your information with the entire class. Post the link to the announcements in the chat room. If a very meaningful contribution is worth 1% of course credit. Email Professor Su to claim it.

Useful References (Posted in the Course Files)

· McPhail and Wohlstein 1983

· Couch 1968