Composition I guidelines call for a research paper on a social issue; that is, a topic or issue that people can have various and conflicting views on. Your job is to explain the issue in its proper context and take a stance or position on the issue. You are encouraged to develop a topic that is of interest you within the loose parameters of the assignment.
When you submit your tentative and final topics they will need to be in the form of a question. The research paper then will be an attempt to answer that question.
We will go over how to come up with topics and how to narrow their focus enough to be covered in five to seven pages. We will also discuss how to frame topics in such a way to make them conducive to a research project.
The goal is for you to come up with a topic of your own choosing, and one that you have some interest in.
Your approach to this topic must be specific enough to be covered adequately in five to seven pages. It usually takes a degree of thought and some research to get to that point. No matter your topic, the basis of the paper will be your own thoughts and words backed by and supported by the research you have done.
Length
Five to seven typed pages. This refers to the body of the paper only; the Works Cited page, covers, graphs and illustrations, etc. are not included in that count!!
Quotations
Direct quotes, garnered from your sources during the research phase, should be included in your paper, but only when the language is unique and original, the information is crucial, and/or it expresses exactly the point you want to make.
Consult your class notes for specific guidelines on how to incorporate quotes into your text, as well as how to format the citations correctly.
Otherwise you will take notes using either the summary or paraphrase technique, and almost the entire body of your paper should be in your own words.
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