choose any text from our course textbook that you have not written about previously in Essay 1 or Essay 2. Your primary text must be from the textbook. If you prefer, you may choose more than one text. This essay is an exploration, a digging deeper, into a piece of literature. You may want to explore Philip Larkin’s poem This Be the Verse; your research may include a biographical study to argue why Larkin wrote the way he did. You may choose Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and argue about what really happens to Jane and John at the end of the text, using scholarly research to support your thesis. If you do not like focusing solely on the literature, you may take a text as inspiration, a jumping off point, to argue something outside of the text. You may want to write about The Yellow Wallpaper, but you might prefer to write about psychological behaviors instead. Or, if you choose Clifton’s 9/11/01 poem; you may take that as an opportunity to argue how our nation has changed since September 11, 2001 (for better or for worse?). There are various ways to approach this assignment. You may research and argue about something specific in the literature (the meaning of a text, the ending, a symbol) or you may take a piece of literature and broaden it by asking larger questions like “How have gender roles changed since The Yellow Wallpaper?” You will need a total of four secondary sources listed in a Works Cited page at the end.
1. The body (the essay section) of the research paper will be of between five and seven pages long. The research paper will expand your understanding of a work by investigating outside sources such as biographies, histories, interpretive essays, documentary films, or reliable and peer-reviewed articles (via the library databases) to learn more about the author, the times, or the popular and critical reception of a work that interests you from the list of works in the syllabus. Examples are on pages 390, “The Realism of A Raisin in the Sun” and 208, “Leaving Home”.
2. Read Part 5 in our textbook BEFORE you start work on the paper for information on writing with secondary sources.
3. Decide on a subject, and submit the following to me, no later than Wednesday, August 14 by 9PM:
• A Working Annotated Bibliography (list of AT LEAST FOUR sources on your topic that you’ve identified so far)
4. You will use at least 4 secondary sources (for the final works cited page, not including your primary text(s)): MLA documentation style. Note: Wikipedia is not acceptable as a source for this paper.
4. You will use at least 4 secondary sources (for the final works cited page, not including your primary text(s)): MLA documentation style. Note: Wikipedia is not acceptable as a source for this paper.
5. The research paper itself should consist of an Introduction with clearly stated thesis (pages 43-44); Body or developmental paragraphs; and a Conclusion.
6. A rough draft of the paper (TYPED) is due for a peer review on Thursday, August 15 (Your final grade on the Research paper will be reduced if this draft is not ready for Peer Review on this date)
7. The final draft of the paper is due Friday, August 14 by 9:00PM via turnitin.
Listed below are general characteristics of each essay and writing assignment:
1. Grade of A – The grade of A reflects excellence. The A paper offers a well-focused and organized discussion appropriate to the instructor’s assignment, reflects critical use of relevant materials, demonstrates effective and formal writing requirements and provides error-free citations of any sources.
2. Grade of B – The grade of B represents an effort beyond satisfactory and indicates the paper was completed in an appropriate and competent manner and, in general, demonstrates a strong attempt at original and critical analysis, and writing. The B paper may contain a number of minor errors of grammar or citation (if necessary), and its thesis or its conclusions may be undeveloped or too weakly supported.
3. Grade of C – The grade of C indicates that the paper was done in a satisfactory or appropriate fashion and represents the average work expected for this course. The presentation is organized around a central idea with arguments supported by relevant examples. The paper is structured into correctly written paragraphs and sentences. Although fulfilling the assignment, the C paper may exhibit one or more weaknesses including, but not limited to, errors of punctuation and grammar, imprecise or incorrect word use, inaccurate or uncritical use of materials, and occasional inconsistency of organization or development.
4. Grade of D – The grade of D indicates that the paper may have a poorly defined topic or thesis, lack clear focus or organization, and contain unsupported generalizations or conclusions. The paper may also suffer from numerous or major formal writing errors.
5. Grade of F – The grade of F indicates that the paper is not clearly relevant to the assignment and that its topic and thesis are poorly focused or defined. The paper may display inadequate organization or development, unsupported generalizations, and nonstandard formal features (including language usage, sentence structure, paragraphing, and so on).
1. Grade of A – The grade of A reflects excellence. The A paper offers a well-focused and organized discussion appropriate to the instructor’s assignment, reflects critical use of relevant materials, demonstrates effective and formal writing requirements and provides error-free citations of any sources.
2. Grade of B – The grade of B represents an effort beyond satisfactory and indicates the paper was completed in an appropriate and competent manner and, in general, demonstrates a strong attempt at original and critical analysis, and writing. The B paper may contain a number of minor errors of grammar or citation (if necessary), and its thesis or its conclusions may be undeveloped or too weakly supported.
3. Grade of C – The grade of C indicates that the paper was done in a satisfactory or appropriate fashion and represents the average work expected for this course. The presentation is organized around a central idea with arguments supported by relevant examples. The paper is structured into correctly written paragraphs and sentences. Although fulfilling the assignment, the C paper may exhibit one or more weaknesses including, but not limited to, errors of punctuation and grammar, imprecise or incorrect word use, inaccurate or uncritical use of materials, and occasional inconsistency of organization or development.
4. Grade of D – The grade of D indicates that the paper may have a poorly defined topic or thesis, lack clear focus or organization, and contain unsupported generalizations or conclusions. The paper may also suffer from numerous or major formal writing errors.
5. Grade of F – The grade of F indicates that the paper is not clearly relevant to the assignment and that its topic and thesis are poorly focused or defined. The paper may display inadequate organization or development, unsupported generalizations, and nonstandard formal features (including language usage, sentence structure, paragraphing, and so on).
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