Character Analysis
- Due May 4 by 3pm
- Points 55
- Submitting a file upload
- File Types pdf
After playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) and participating in various online spaces, we will compose a sustained analysis of the different characters or personas we inhabit within them. These documents should contain attached artifacts—character sheets, session notes, screenshots, chat or quest logs, etc.—and reference other texts—fictive works, popular journalism, and scholarship—to help situate and clarify the analysis. This paper will explicate the different characters individually and make an assertion about what they reveal collectively, and it should:
- be in MLA format
- contain approximately 1,500 words (about five pages) plus a separate Works Cited section and appendix (for artifacts)
- incorporate at least three external sources (primary, popular, or scholarly)
- forward a coherent beginning, middle, and end
- be submitted as a .pdf file
In addition to the paper, we will make brief (~5 minute) oral presentations of our Character Analyses.
Tips:
- Consult our Engaged Reading notes. The information they provide about about close attention is applicable to many experiences.
- Consider how fictive texts may help clarify your analysis through comparison to your experience. Also consider how popular and scholarly works can provide support for your statements.
- Identify the most salient threads to communicate to readers. When it comes to developing your subject, it's usually more effective to start narrow and build outward than to start broad and focus inward.
- Don't write in sequential order from introduction to conclusion. Start writing in the middle of your work by discussing the elements that are most interesting to you. Once you have a grasp of this core, move on to the conclusion and then the introduction. If you try to write in sequential order, your work likely will have an overly general introduction and a weak structure. This is because it is very difficult to set up what you are going to say before you know what that will be.
- Make use of UNCW's Writing Services. They can help you move from ideas to drafts and beyond.
Resources:
- Roll20
- Google virtual dice roller
- One-Page Dungeon creator
- Dungeon Scrawl
- Perilous Shores mapmaker
- DNGNGEN dungeon generator
Sequence and Deliverables:
- Discuss experience with TTRPG and online spaces (Mar. 28)
- Pitch TTRPG campaign concepts (Apr. 4)
- Submit analysis (May 4)
- Present analysis (May 4)
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