Your topic maps submitted should contain the following elements: An overall statement of your topic The potentially relevant disciplines you’ve mapped out The map that shows how disciplines that are actually relevant fit in A brief sketch of what you think some of the potentially relevant disciplinary insights from these disciplines might be. (In other words: what specific findings, theories, methods, etc might become relevant to your topic?) You’re welcome to submit this is a Word document. However, you also might consider drawing out your map using one of the pieces of mind-mapping software discussed earlier and exporting your map as a PDF. Alternatively, draw it out on a piece of paper, take a picture of it with your mobile phone, and upload that picture as a JPG or PNG file! (Please, no animated GIFs!)