Unfortunately, I may have missed a class or two, so I wasn't there when the final paper was discussed. I have the assignment sheet from the email, but it's rather...vague on details. In any case, I an initially tentatively planning to choose the historical research option. Yes, I know it seems dull compared to the other choices, but I figure, hey--I'm already going to be stuck in the library doing research for other English papers, so what's one more in the pile? Believe me, I'm not terribly excited at the prospect of writing another research paper, either, but at least I (sort of) know what I'm doing by now. I did have a friend offer to provide illustrations if I wanted to do something more graphic, but I'd rather not trouble her, as this is my project and all. I was thinking that maybe I could write my paper about the Japanese tradition of manga. Back at the beginning of the semester, some of the chapters from McCloud made cursory mention of manga and its influence on the development of western comics, as well, but he devotes very little space to what could easily be a book unto itself. In fact, I'm sure that many such books exist, and I intend to find them and write a paper using the information I obtain from them. What a novel idea! I'm supposed to have the paper proposal ready for today, but I'm not sure if that means I'm supposed to bring anything actually written to class. At any rate, I've got an idea, and that's a start.
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