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RESEARCHOVERVIEWrequirements.docxRESEARCH ASSIGNMENT (75 possible points)
FOCUS
Work with one, two, or all three of the following works:
· Out of Alien Days
· Prayer to Masks
· New York
APPROACH
· Read each closely.
· Determine a favorite, one that you would value knowing better or see a unity and decide to work with two or three.
· Print.
· Make notations and highlight significant passages.
· Pose questions If you were to teach it, what angles would you take?
· Recognize analytical devices. (EX: simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism, flashbacks, foreshadowing, motif, allegory, juxtaposition, point of view) https://blog.reedsy.com/literary-devices/
· Determine cultural and political relevances.
· Study the structure. What is the unity? What is the organization?
· Concretely, why is this work significant?
Now build.
STRUCTURE
Lead with a thesis that directs the essay. Include your major direction(s)
Lead each paragraph with a main idea sentence. What can work effectively is if your thesis already notes the main points. Then each resulting paragraph could examine one of those areas. Offer support for your points. This can quotes from external sources, or quotes/evidence from the work being examined.
Conclude with a paragraph that summarized the essentials.
Use MLA faithfully.
Use the third person.
Offer cogent thinking.
LENGTH
700 – 1,000 Words without counting quotations, internal citations (intext citations), and Works Cited. Show the word count under your name. Provide the word count. An easy way to verify this is to make a "dummy" copy and just delete all of the quotes, internal citations, and Works Cited list.
SOURCES
Minimum: 5 external academic sources exclusive of the work itself. You may include class site materials BUT these are to be in addition to your independent research.
Include in the Works Cited only those works that are directly used in the essay. These are to be supported by in-text citations which are highly abbreviated forms of the Works Cited. Whenever you use outside material, the credit appears in the Works Cited list as well as inside the essay. Definitely offer citations from quotations, numbers, dates, and information that is generally unknown.
Works Cited is what it says. Included in the list are sources for material that is actually mentioned in the essay.
Rarely, but it does happen, a student offers a capable paper, but there is no research. Note the title of the assignment. If there is no research, there is no credit.
Extract sample:
… While stereotypes can be “rooted in truth” and are not always negative, they cause people to “ignore the differences between people” and see an individual as a piece of a larger, singular identity (Nittle). In-text citation
Nittle, Nadra Kareem. "What Is a Stereotype?" ThoughtCo, Feb. 11, 2020, thoughtco.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-stereotype-2834956. Accessed Apr. 4, 2020. Matching item from the Works Cited list.
FORMAT
Use MLA format. (The exception is to use single spacing.)
See Purdue’s OWL https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
Intext Basics: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
ATTENTION
Sources must actually appear in the text and be cited there. They are not materials that you may have consulted but did not directly use.
The Intext citations MUST also appear in the Works Cited list although in a different format.
PLAGIARISM
The assignment will be reviewed for plagiarism through national data bases. If any is found, failure results. If you do not credit material from external sources with direct quotation marks when copied and citations, that is plagiarism. In short, plagiarism is stealing. This includes order of thinking.
Of course, composition helps were offered at the very beginning of class. To refresh memory, here are the titles:
UNINTENDED OR INTENDED PLAGIARISM
TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL LITERARY ANALYSIS TOOLS
