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 * ELABORATION & EVALUATION - Weeks 5-9**

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 * In this section you will be working on your //mystory// consisting of two interrelated stories: an inner story and an outer story (see instructions below). **

**The stories will jointly explore one of your subjectivities from two different perspectives. As a topic of your exploration you can choose between the following domains:**
 * **ethnicity (cultural community)**
 * **profession (your major)**
 * **family**
 * **entertainment**

**and explore yourself**
 * **as a native (name of a cultural/ethnic community)**
 * **as a professional/student of a given field**
 * **as a family member or**
 * **as a consumer of pop culture respectively**

**Some advice will be given on how to approach any of these topics.**

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=Task 1: Inner Story=

This is your personal exploration of the topic in which you are trying to tackle the question of what it means for you to be ... (fill in the gap with the subjectivity you have chosen). What are you like as ...? How does being ... make you who/what you are?

For example you could analyse yourself as a pop culture consumer by your identification with a pop star. If you decide to tackle the career theme, you could explore it visually through associating yourself with one of the inventions significant in your field.

While exploring, you are encouraged to use metaphors and symbols and you are supposed to express yourself through images, videos, poems, comic strips, posters combining visuals and text. This is a space for your inner voice to speak and make it speak creatively and reflectively. You can create one bigger artefact like the video
 * [|Me, myself and 我]** or a few smaller artefacts (evolving round the same theme).

You should spend the first two weeks building your inner story, documenting the process in two reflective blog entries, describing the stages of the process, analysing the choices you have had to make, etc. The final product should appear on the blog by the end of week 6.

=Task 2: Outer Story=

This is a more objective exploration of the topic, in which you objectify and problematise your personal experience by trying to explain, clarify, analyse with help of background research. In order to do so, stand back and look at the visual artefact from your inner story coldly, in the way a researcher would. How would you analyse the underlying circumstances, phenomena, principles, etc?

To accomplish the task, you need to do some background reading. You should find 2 or 3 academic sources that examine the issues central for the inner story (how to evaluate academic sources?). Based on the research, you come up with an academic commentary on the themes from the visual artefact. The commentary should be linked to the visual artefact, for example in the way the Einstein’s text and your annotations in section 2 hypertext task did, refer to background literature and use academic discourse (how to write academically?).

You have the rest of the five-week period to research the theme and write up the narrative. You can consult your tutor when choosing the themes, focus and/or sources. You should document the process on your blog, writing about the research stages as well as reflecting on being the subject of your own enquiry. The final product should appear either on your blog or your wiki page (you can use your playground or set up your own wiki).

Remember that this assignment is worth 40% of the final mark. See the assessments section on the Course Info page for more details.

Here is an example (only a snapshot) to give you an idea of what is required: @Being a distance learner.