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The English 102 Research Paper is an assignment designed to take you through all the steps in doing an independent research project. This is a guided assignment, meaning that, although you will be working on your own, you will have the opportunity to meet with me during the course of your research to have your progress monitored. Indeed, the process of doing a research project is so very important that there is a schedule indicating the due dates of every step in the process and almost every step in the process will receive a grade that will count as part of the research paper grade.
The steps in the process that are graded (due as assigned) will count as 1/3 of your final course grade with the research paper and final outline counting as another 1/3 of your course grade (Remember your other class work constitutes the remaining 1/3 of your final grade.).
The steps that are graded are only graded during the class hour. If the grade received on a step is a C+ or lower, that work may be redone for the very next class and the work will be graded again. Only the second grade will count. This re-grading of steps only happens if the original work is submitted in class on the day it is due. If work is handed in late, it will be graded once. I will certainly look at the work a second time to see if the work is improving, but the re-grading can only be done if the original work is handed in on time.
All material will be submitted in MS Word documents to Turnitin.
Topic: Write a character analysis of Hamlet.
In your research critical essay be sure to address all the following topics:
1. Hamlet’s state of mind, meaning is Hamlet mad or not?
2. Examine Hamlet’s relationship with Horatio. What does that relationship show about Hamlet?
3. Use either the characters in A or B below to help explain Hamlet as a character based on his interaction with them:
* 3A. Ophelia and Gertrude.
3B. Claudius and Polonius.
4. Consider the following quotation in relation to Hamlet” “This above all: to thine own self be true,
” (1.3.84)
5. Discuss Hamlet as a tragic hero which includes identifying his tragic flaw and his recognition scene. Discuss pity and fear in relation to the audience..
Due: 30 November 2022
Final outline (an outline not yet graded) and paper due on Turnitin. There will be separate icons for each one.
NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED!!!!
Length: Essay of 6 to 8 typed pages
Minimum number of sources: 5, one of which is the play itself.
1. Use at least two (2) sources from the reserve list in the College Library.
Note: All your critical sources, except the Internet sources, can come from the
reserve list.
2. Only scholarly Internet sources accepted.
A Further Note: Web source(s) such as on-line papers and sites such as Cliff Notes, Wikipedia, Grade Saver, and Spark Notes (just to give examples because there are more) are not acceptable.
Other requirements: Format is MLA style with Works Cited
Topic Outline in its final version is required with the final paper and is
graded separately.
No cover sheet; no blank pages; a complete heading on both the
outline and the research paper.
Header on every page.
The first page of the outline is page one.
The first page of the essay is page one.
Clearly the outline and the essay are separate document.
No more than 4 short quotes (3 lines or less) allowed in your paper.
Every body paragraph must contain multiple citations to both the play and
the critics.
A research paper is more than 5 paragraphs!
Steps in doing the research assignment: Follow dates as they are given. If any adjustments are needed, the adjusted dates will be announced in class.
Note: These grades constitute 1/3 of your grade in the course. They are not optional.
The MLA Guide for Writers of Research Papers, 9th edition, is the source for all matters related to this assignment. There will be handouts with additional needed information as well as links to the MLA online information.
Some thoughts and reminders on doing a literary research essay:
Remember, when you do literary research, your first line of support is always the literary work about which you are writing. The literary work is called the primary source and whatever you say in your paper must first and always be substantiated by a reference or references to the text. Now when you make these references to the text they need not, indeed, should not always be quotations; a brief reference (or summary or paraphrase) with proper citation is sufficient unless there is some over-riding reason to quote.
In a literary research paper, you also need to corroborate what you have to say by consulting with the experts in the field — these are the critics, the interpreters, of the work you are researching. These critics are called the secondary sources.
Remember that the critics represent differing points of view. They are not all going to agree. First, read them to see what they have to say and to help you come to an informed opinion on your topic. Just always keep in mind that you CANNOT possibly agree with all of the critics and at some point you are going to have to make some choices and some decisions. Secondly, as your own position becomes clearer, you will be reading the critics so that you will have outside sources to back up the ideas you are presenting in your own paper.
NOTE-TAKING: When you take notes, either on the play or on the critics, remember you always put the ideas into your own words and phrases in the notes.
Always put the information from the critics in your own words. No quoting critics in your paper. Refer to them and cite in standard form.
Do NOT quote the play unless it is a very important few (no more than three) lines.
QUOTATIONS: When you feel you must quote, limit yourself to quoting brief phrases of no more than three lines. No more than 4 quotes permitted in the paper.
CITATIONS: Remember each body paragraph of the paper will contain both citations to the play and then to the critics in developing each of your points.
As a reminder: a research paper is an essay that has more than 5 paragraphs. The opening paragraph ends with your thesis statement, and the paper ends with a concluding paragraph that summarizes what you have written about in the paper. The concluding paragraph does not contain any new information.
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