a five-page paper, and a works cited
An outline and draft due:
Final paper and outline due:
This is a formal library research paper that incorporates your writing skills, research skills, and your skill of integrating your voices with those of the others in presenting your research information.
q Chose a topic or a concept, which can be traced in a play/plays by the same playwright (e.g. ghost in Hamlet)
q Make a point with an argumentative edge that needs proving or disproving by support from ten scholars articles
q Research for 10 articles pertinent to your chosen topic in the BC library.
q Read the ten articles carefully to find supporting evidence, taking good notes about the bibliographical information (author’s name, page number, publisher, and so on).
q Evaluate and sort out the quotations you need to cite in your research paper.
q Incorporate the uncovered information into a well-focused, clearly organized, and coherently developed paper.
In your research paper, you should first make a point on the topic. Second, you should back up your thesis with supporting points by using quotations culled from the sources (at least 10 sources, including articles from journals and magazines, and books). Third, you should present your understanding of the subject and your research in a well-documented formal research paper.
To develop your theme, you could use any of the method of thesis development you learned from English 1101 class (e.g. comparison and contrast, definition, argument, cause and effect, classification, and others). Your in-text citations and works cited page should be done in accordance to the most recent MLA style. Your paper will be graded and commented on with the following points:
v A clearly stated thesis statement on the topic with your position and your reasons for your position.
v Appropriate use of in-text citations and works cited page of the sources by MLA standard as well as an accurate use of the outside sources by indirect quotations, direct quotations, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
v A coherent development of your paragraphs and your essay as a whole.
v A fine integration between your voices and those of other people.
v Correct use of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word choice.
Other possible essay topics to help you with invention:
Settings in Shakespeare’s comedy “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Settings in Shakespeare’s comedy ” As you Like it”
Shakespeare’s tragedy–” Hamlet” and the tragic flaws in the hero in the play
Shakespeare’s tragedy–” Othello”the concept of race in the play
Symbolism in Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie”
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