User talk:TasiaD


 * Tasia,

This is coming along well. I'd still like to see some examples of how racism can play into profiling. I'd also like to see the closing section we discussed earlier, in which you discuss how this research paper has affected your opinions of profiling.
 * Best, Stevenarntson


 * Tasia,

Good start on this. I'd like to see also some examples of times when profiling went awry. If you have a chance to see The Thin Blue Line (here it is at the Seattle Public Library), it would be a good example.
 * Best, Stevenarntson


 * Tasia,

"Might've" is as real as you want it to be. :)

Regarding your project, keep in mind also some of the fictional experiments we've done in class, using research to produce stories. I wonder if such an experiment might be interesting for you, and maybe return you somewhat to your original interest in the subject. Just an idea. ..

Best, Stevenarntson


 * Tasia,

Excellent topic. Please post your anticipated weekly schedule so I can take a look at how you're going to break it all down. Also, I'd like a sense of how long you expect the paper to be. If it's the only one you'll be writing this quarter, it will need to have some good breadth.

One other thing I'll say about this topic--I think a potentially very valuable thing that may come out of it is information about how investigators often rely on stereotypes, and how sometimes someone's biases (racial, cultural, class, &c) can get in the way of good detective work. This has been written about quite frequently. A movie that I would also highly recommend is Errol Morris' documentary The Thin Blue Line. It is an amazing story of justice gone awry because of people's assumptions.
 * Best, Stevenarntson

Schedule

 * Tasia,

You may want to put in a little more time for fine-turning and editing. Additionally, if each page is 300 words it puts you at 1800 words for the quarter. That's a good size for a paper, but I'd like to see more produced over the course of eleven weeks. Aim to complete this paper a little more quickly, and then I'd like to see you write more of a personal essay describing your opinions and feelings about what you discovered, of equal length to the first.
 * Best, Stevenarntson