a teaching bleg

[lotesse]

So I'm putting together my sff comp course for the fall, and I wondered if y'all could help me out with something:

one of the assignments is to write a proposal for the second big paper - it's a good practical skill to have. They'll be writing on short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin and N.K. Jemisin, and - well, I heart sff, but it's not what I write on in my academic life! But I know some of you do or have, and so I was wondering - if you've written up proposals for academic work on sff, or fandom, or steampunk, or any other kind of genre/spec fic, would you mind sending me copies to give my students as models? I'd love to be able to show them examples that had actually worked, and to expose them to breaking sff scholarship in the process. Everything would be anonymized, of course!

Comments

[ithiliana]

I have lotz and lotz of proposals and will be happy to send them -- and anonymization isn't required unless you as professor prefer it!

I shall email reminder to myself....(I give my proposals out to my students all the time, and posted a working draft of a grant proposal for my grant writing students to see last term). Real models can be invaluable.

[lotesse]

Thanks so much - I had a feeling you'd be game for it!

[ithiliana]

I checked my home computer and my work email, but all the proposals there are for fandom stuff which I don't think would be too useful! But I have a fair amount of lit stuff (mostly Tolkien, heh heh heh, but some feminist sf too).