Subject Matter Profile: For this option, you will select a subject matter that you are interested in, however you want to make sure that your focus is narrow enough. For example, a profile of the National Football League would be way too broad to conduct a profile essay. Selecting one team: like the Las Vegas Raiders would help keep things more manageable. Similarly, looking at "film" would take a lot more effort and writing than a can offer, so you would want to select a director or actor.

Similar to the personal profile, it may be possible for you to conduct research in person (if you're profiling art shows, you may be able to attend one). However, you may need to rely on video evidence for you to conduct your observations.

Field Notes: For both options and all subjects you will need to conduct your own research. One of the assignments for this project will ask you to provide field notes (which we will go over in class). These can either be observations or interviews, but will be a representation of new information you have gathered on the subject at hand.

On Quentin Tarantino