Using only the essays in the Industrial Design Reader, Design Q&A, and the Zeisel essay as your reference sources, tell me about any big, enduring theme in American culture that is related to industrial design history. The theme should span at least 70 years I am not looking for short trends or fashion – I am looking for themes that evolve over a long period of time. Connect American Culture to ID History I do not want an essay about a theme in design history. Pro tip: do a little research on themes in American culture first, then see if one jumps out that you can connect to what you know about ID history—enough to make an interesting essay. Good idea for essay structure Introductory paragraph: name your theme, define it, and explain how it is a theme in American culture that endures over an extended period of time. Body paragraphs 2, 3 and 4: three examples from ID history that show a connection to the theme, AND show how the theme evolves over time. Concluding paragraph: end the essay by coming to a conclusion about what the connection between design history and American culture means. This is NOT a book report I am not interested in your telling me what each essay was about. I want you to talk about why each essay is a milestone in design history that contributed to the theme in American culture that you are discussing. Required Use the course texts on Perusall as your only sources. No outside sources. Use key quotes from your chosen essays to support your claims. They should be brief quotes—the quotes should not make up more than 10% of the paper, total. Citation format for this paper only At the end of the quote, or at the end of any part where you are paraphrasing (not quoting exactly, but using ideas from the source in your own words), skip a space and put the last name of the author who wrote that essay. If there are page numbers in the reading, put the author’s last name, comma, then the page number the ideas or quote comes from. correct: (Dreyfuss) correct: (Zeisel, 78) NOT correct: (Gorman) Only use Gorman (the editor of the book) if you are quoting from one of her introductions to an essay. Otherwise, use the name of the designer who wrote the essay.
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