The Influence of Print on Western Society (an academic paper)

While doing my annotated bibliography assignment (which can be seen here), I found one particular book that struck my interest more than any of the others. It was Printing and the Mind of Man: a Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization during Five Centuries. It was essentially an annotated bibliography of important printed works over the past five centuries. I thought it was interesting to see how much print impacted Western society so I decided to write my paper about it...

The Academic Paper Saga: Episode 2

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Step 3.5 Rework the Thesis
After some helpful suggestions and advice from Dr. Burton, I decided to change the argument of my thesis. Like I said earlier, I had trouble deciding on an argument to make about Manutius. Instead of pitting his success against other Venetian printers of the time, Professor Burton suggested I make an argument about the cause of Manutius’s success, because there were many possible causes for this. This seemed like a clearer, more arguable direction to go in, so here is my new thesis:

The Academic Paper Saga: Episode 1

I knew after I went to class on Thursday that I needed to get started on this academic paper as soon as possible. Not only was an entire draft due by Tuesday, but I had no idea what direction I wanted to go in or even how to write a historic persuasive/argumentative essay. During class, I talked with Kody Wood who was in my group for Typography, and we bounced around ideas. We seriously considered doing a group collaborative paper because neither of us had done it before, and we thought it would a cool way to showcase this unit. However, after talking it out with Holland, our other group member, we decided with three busy schedules to accommodate and no definite direction for our paper, we would each embark upon our own paths. And this is the beginning of mine...