A research deep dive is made up of many individual, measured steps. In these excerpts, the writers retrace these steps with the reader, carefully leading them to the heart of their paper, by constructing a sequence of moves that guide the reader to the in-depth research that the writer will analyze and explain. Here, Winnie Lin illustrates the nuanced shift that her Writing Seminar paper contributes to the scholarly conversation on historical memory in China, providing scaffolding through a layered motive, a clearly articulated thesis, and a roadmap for the reader to follow as the writer pushes further into the analysis. Sanjana Venkatesh shows how this multi-layered construction of the path to a deep dive is effective in her interdisciplinary STEM senior thesis midyear report, outlining the background to her research in a way that is accessible yet specific.
— Jordan Fraser Angel ’27