I had a biweekly meeting with my mentor on February 14, 2018 for thirty minutes, and we discussed the approaches for starting the methodology section of my research. Dr. Shinko’s first recommendation was to research discourse analyses to understand various interpretivist research strategies that could be used for my topic. She suggested I reread Claudia Aradau’s piece as well as Mark Salter, Lena Hansen, and Charlotte Epstein. Together, we did general searches for discourse analyses and printed two articles: “The Mysterious Case of Aafia Siddiqui: Gothic Intertextual Analysis of Neo-Orientalist Narratives” by Caron E. Gentry and “Constructing the Self and Changing Others: Reconsidering ‘Normative Power Europe’” by Thomas Diez. Another resource Dr. Shinko advised for understanding discourse analysis was Social Inequality and the Politics of Representation by Celine-Marie Pascale, chapters two and five. I asked Dr. Shinko how she has conducted research, and she explained how she used elite discourse of “people in charge,” giving an example of how she looked at elite discourse from leaders of Kosovo involved in the bombing campaign to expose her point. My biggest concern, at this point, is that the methodology I devise will not be systematic enough for me to gain enough exposure. I hope by reading other researchers’ work, I will be able to draw on the tactics of others to create a concise methodological approach for my topic.