Please write a scholarly essay in response to ONE of the following Call for Proposals (CFPs). The language in each of these three options below was taken from a real CFP that was posted within the last five years, though I have made some minor adjustments to reflect our current course assignment.

Please note that a CFP is meant to cast a wide net: usually, the organizers are looking for dozens (or hundreds) of conference presenters, or maybe a handful of chapters for a new anthology. The description is meant to inspire and provoke. It should give you a big umbrella under which you should organize your specific thoughts and ideas. Your response should relate to the CFP, but it should not address everything mentioned in the CFP.

For this assignment, you will want to tailor your response to relate to our course materials and discussions. That is, at the heart of your essay, you are writing about some aspect of big data. However, you should feel free to include all the materials we have used this semester and/or relevant materials from other CMA/CDM courses. You may use any genre for your essay (argument, rhetorical analysis, etc), but your essay should be more than a simple report.

Technical specifications for our assignment include:

• Give your paper an interesting title.
• Indicate which CFP you are responding to (this can be part of your title or subtitle, or you can simply include it in the header information with your name, date, and so on.)
• The final paper should be between 1300 to 1500 words (approximately 4 to 6 pages), not including your Works Cited or References page.
• Rely on Big Data and Weapons of Math Destruction as one of your primary sources.
• Supplement your paper with at least three additional sources. (So you will have a total of at least four sources minimum.)
• Document your paper appropriately. You may use APA or MLA formatting, but you must be consistent with the format you choose.
• Be sure to include your name, an interested title, and page numbers. Use standard font and margin settings. Please double-space.

Please upload your final paper to the assignment link on Canvas. Check the syllabus for the due date.

Option 1: BIG DATA AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE HUMANITIES

This assignment seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods (e.g. information visualization, text markup, crowdsourcing metadata).

“Big data” is any dataset that is too large to be analyzable with traditional means (whether e.g. manual close readings or database queries). Developments in cloud computing, data management, and analytics mean that humanists and allied scholars can analyze and visualize larger patterns in big data sets. With these opportunities come the challenges of scale and interpretation; we have moved from the uncertainty resulting from having too little data to the uncertainty implicit in large amounts of data.

What does this mean for how humanists structure, query, analyze and visualize data? How does this change the questions we ask and the interpretations we assign? How do we combine the best of a macro (larger-pattern) and a micro (close reading) approach? And how is interpretative and other uncertainty modeled?

Language taken from https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46286

Option 2: THE POLITICS OF BIG DATA

This assignment is focused on generating provocative work that questions the nature of structural systems of knowledge, power, capital, and the political potential of culture in everyday life.

Examine the political and cultural ramifications of the “big data” movement, and consider the implications, consequences, and challenges facing the humanities and humans as we wade through the wake of big data. The dawn of big data raises a number of questions for humanities scholars: What problems arise when we accept data as objective? How will large quantities of data transform human communication and culture? What are the ideological outcomes of the big data movement? How will large quantities of data transform human communication and culture?

Topics may include but are not limited to:

Ecocritical approaches to big data
• Big data and the public sphere/private sphere
• Implications of big data on concepts of rationality
• Implications of big data for the digital humanities
• Big data and the death of the Real
• Implications of wildlife record keeping
• Reconstructing the sovereign through big data
• Big history and the Anthropocene
• Big data and gene technology
• Postcolonialism through the eyes of big data
• Close readings of big data or big data and literary studies?
• Consequences of big data on surveillance

Language taken from https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/61355

Based on the readings in this unit, what do the readings in this unit reveal about diversity within the new nation? Use at least three specific examples from the text. Your answer should be at least one complete paragraph.

Answer:

Throughout history, literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose two selections from this unit and explain why they can be thought of as protest literature. Discuss each selection in its own complete paragraph.

Answer:

What are some values that are important to the people who live and work in the new nation? List at least three values and illustrate their importance with evidence from at least three readings. You should have at least one complete paragraph explaining each example. Discuss each example in its own complete paragraph.

(material is from

• Journeys in Literature: American Traditions, Volume C – pages 24-58)

***INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY POWERPOINT IS ATTACHED. FOLLOW ALL THE GUIDELINE AS IS. ***

In the provided research paper there are “P2s” and “P3s” for each category given ( Health Impact, Social Impact etc..) include the following:

Second Paragraphs (ALL P2s)

1. Why is this research important? (2-3 sentences) (Ex. This research is important because….)

2. Sociological Perspective (i.e., Symbolic Interactionism, Structural Functionalism, Conflict

Theory). (Ex. From a symbolic interactionist perspective…) or any theory that relates to P1.

3. Why is this research important to society (3-5 sentences) (Ex. This research is important to

society because…)

Third Paragraphs (ALL P3s)

1. Examples or elaboration-If your personal experience validates the research then it could be

included here (no more than 5-6 sentences).

2. Apply the perspective by giving an example

3. Summary and transition sentence-Remind the reader what your point is and then transition to

other related points (the next article) from your outline.

GUIDELINES FOR INDIVIDUAL

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

●Individual Writing Assignments should include the following:

 Name of the Article

 Author

 Name of the magazine or journal that the article was published in

 Date of publication (No older than 18 months from the start of the semester)

 Page numbers that the article appeared on

●The Individual Writing Assignments should be organized to include the following sections:

 Summary of the article

 How the topic described in the article relates to Cost and Managerial Accounting

 Your opinion of the article (i.e. is this an informative article, how useful can it be, etc. what other issues may exist related to the subject of the article)

 What you learned from reading and analyzing the article / what you learned specifically about cost and managerial accounting as a result of the article

●Individual Writing Assignments should be 1-2 pages single spaced

●Subject of the article can be on any topic covered this semester (For example; job-order costing, activity-based costing, budgeting, ethics, etc.). Review the chapter titles from the text.

I need an article review for this article in the topic, it must be minimum one page, and maximum a page and a half. I will attach a pdf file of the article, and below ill list the review guidelines of the article.

Review Guidelines:

Criteria:

The student writer:

1. uses the opening sentence of the summary to capture the ideology (belief) of the author. YOUR USE OF THE WORD “BELIEVES’ DOES NOT IMPLY IDEOLOGY, BUT RATHER A HUNCH ON THE PART OF THE AUTHOR. THE AUTHOR’S IDEOLOGY IS REVEALED THROUGH HIS PERSPECTIVE, WHICH IS IMPLIED BY HIS ARGUMENT. IF HE SUSPECTS CORRUPTION, HE MAY BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EVEN IN TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES. AN IDEOLOGY IS A GUIDING PERSPECTIVE THAT DETERMINES HOW WE SEE A SITUATION.

2. captures specific details from the text or video that relate to the opening sentence of the summary.

3. uses attribution throughout (attribution means attributing the ideas to the author/s, as in “In their TED talk, Lott and O’Toole tout the importance of play in scientific discovery. They define play as….”) — ALWAYS INTRODUCE THE SOURCE. DON’T WRITE “This article” BECAUSE THE WORD “THIS” DOES NOT PROVIDE A FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR YOUR READER.

4. quotes sparingly from the text being summarized (most of the writing in the summary is the student’s)

5. uses objective voice (does not insert personal opinion)

6. provides necessary but brief background information for the reader, such as the type of source (lecture, autobiography, letter, magazine article) and historical and geographical context (present day, pre-Civil War south, ancient Greece, etc).

7. explains ideas fully (does not leave the reader wondering what something means)

8. has few to no grammatical errors

9. uses consistent verb tense

10. uses active voice. If you are not sure what active voice means, see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/02…

11. provides a Works Cited list in MLA