The document provides instructions for a research essay assignment on the topic of serial killers being viewed as heroes in popular culture. Students are asked to write a 5-page essay analyzing representations of serial killers as heroes in various media works discussed in class. The essay should incorporate research sources and address the learning outcomes of analyzing disciplinary content, comparing perspectives across disciplines, synthesizing diverse views, and relating academic knowledge to real world issues. Specific formatting guidelines are provided, and the essay will be graded based on a rubric evaluating the above learning outcomes and technical communication skills.

1. Name of class:LE300J/ Serial Killers as Heroes in Popular
Culture
Need research essay about serial killers viewed as heroes. The
material we went over in class is as followed:
Hannibal
Frankinstein
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
you by Caroline Kepnes
Here are the teachers instructions:
Essay
Your first research essay should be a fully completed work of 5
pages. Your topic may be related to the development of any idea
that has already been expressed as part of the course; your
thesis should be a synthesis of carefully documented research
and critical analysis of this topic. The essay should incorporate
the general parts of an academic essay—an introduction and
thesis, a body of specific evidence/support/analysis, and a
conclusion that emphasizes the answers to questions you may
have asked within your research.
Your writing should address the Core Learning Outcomes of the
course and the Instructor Specific Learning Outcomes, as
specified on the syllabus. I have included them here for your

2. convenience:
Analyze the disciplinary content in its own context and in
relationship to the issues, questions, and positions of other
disciplines.
Compare and contrast differences and similarities among the
disciplines in terms of central concerns, values, methodologies,
and relationships to public life.
Synthesize diverse perspectives to achieve an interdisciplinary
understanding.
Analyze the relationships among academic knowledge,
professional work, and the responsibilities of local and global
citizenship.
Interpret and critique the possible “real world” connections or
behaviors associated with the viewing or playing of media
violence.
Instructor Learning Outcomes
Identify, discuss and critique the representations of serial
killers as heroes, celebrities, and icons in modern media forms.
Explain the characteristics of the media forms, genres, and
methods for each subject.
Describe and analyze the popular culture forms that encourage
audience identification or participation through violence or
vicarious experience.
Evaluate multiple perspectives, modes of inquiry and
expression, and processes for decision-making in the
disciplines.

3. Specifics
Your essay should conform to the MLA format for citations
within the text and in your works cited. Therefore, your writing
should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins, in a 10-12-
pitch font. The grading of this essay will be based upon the
objective skills we have focused upon in our course lectures and
discussions—incorporating your research sources seamlessly
within your own writing, building upon your skills as a “close-
reading” expert and analysis of your topic, and answering the
larger questions about “why” we are studying serial killers as
heroes (as well as, “why” your topic is popular? important?
significant? worthy of study? definitive of its audience?)
Resources
You should carefully construct your essay by looking at the
examples we have studied within our course—the popular
culture essays that have been part of your reading assignments,
our in-class examples, and the writing process that has been
investigated in our class assignments (Reader Response Essays,
Discussion Postings, etc).
MLA: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
(Links to an external site.)
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APA: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/
(Links to an external site.)
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Rubric

4. The Final Project will be graded according to the following
rubric.
Competency
Exceeds Expectation (3)
Meets Expectation (2)
Does Not Meet Expectation (1)
No Evidence (0)
Core Learning Outcome #1
Outcomes
Demonstrates a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the
disciplinary content in relationship to its contexts.
Demonstrates an accurate understanding of the disciplinary
content in its own context.
Disciplinary knowledge represented is incomplete or contains
errors and/or omission of contextual factors; or CA guidelines
are not followed.
Core Learning Outcome #2
Outcomes

5. Reflects more than a simple description of similarities and
differences between disciplines to illustrate the interaction of
the discipline’s concerns, values, methodologies, and
relationships to public life.
Accurately identifies similarities and differences between the
relevant disciplines’ central concerns, values, methodologies,
and relationships to public life.
Fails to address either central concerns, values, methodologies,
or relationships to public life for both disciplines; offers only a
superficial discussion of all; addresses these issues for a single
discipline; or addresses only similarities or differences; or CA
guidelines are not followed.
Core Learning Outcome #3
Outcomes
(part of Core Assessment)
Moves beyond simple interdisciplinary perspectives to achieve a
sophisticated synthesis of perspectives that offers unique
insights to the problem/issue.
Generates valid interdisciplinary perspectives relevant to the
problem/issue.
Illustrates a single disciplinary perspective or offers a simplistic
view of the problem/issue; or CA guidelines are not followed.
Core Learning Outcome #4

6. Outcomes
(part of Core Assessment)
Applies a sophisticated and creative interdisciplinary
understanding to various academic, professional, and civic
concerns, uncovering the interconnectedness of those concerns.
Applies an interdisciplinary understanding of academic
professional and civic concerns.
Fails to tie the interdisciplinary understanding to one or more of
the following: academic, professional, or civic concerns; or CA
guidelines are not followed.
Core Learning Outcome #5
Outcomes
Goes beyond simple understanding to achieve a detailed, in-
depth analysis and evaluation, highlighting strengths and
weaknesses of the disciplinary modes.
Evaluates various disciplinary modes of thinking in pursuit of
holistic understanding.
Exhibits only superficial evaluation or evaluates a single mode
of disciplinary thinking; or CA guidelines are not followed.
Overall project effectiveness

7. Outcomes
Outcomes 6.1-6.5
Project goes beyond meeting expectations to represent a
creative/innovative and persuasive perspective.
Project meets audience and genre expectations for coherence,
organization, and mechanics/documentation.
Project fails to illustrate effective audience analysis or fails to
meet genre expectations in one or more areas: coherence,
organization, and mechanics/documentation; or CA guidelines
are not followed.
Technical Skill in Communicating
Outcomes
Outcome: University Mission Statement
Employs conventions of Standard Written English with grace
and style in a well-organized, fully developed essay.
Employs conventions of Standard Written English in a well-
organized, adequately developed essay.
Illogical statements, lack of development and organization, and
persistent problems with use of Standard Written English
interferes with reader's ability to understand the point of the
paper.