For Henry only-Research Paper Project

There are different parts to the assingment due every week. We can negotiate a price to pay for each step.Ill give you different topics to pick from to write on. You can pick the one you want and we will go from there.Ill put 20.00 on the price Im willing to pay but since there are different steps,we can negotiate a price for each assingment.

 

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ResearchPaper Project

Purpose:

The Research Paper Project is a course-long project that, after completing the required steps,

will culminate with the completion of a Research Paper at the end of the course. The reading

and writing skills shown in the successful completion of this assignment are the concluding step

in the GMC ENG 101/ENG 102 sequence, displaying your skills as a writer, reader, researcher,

and critical thinker.

Assignments:

Several assignments will be completed throughout the course that make up the Research Paper

Project. These assignments, the weeks and units they are due, and their percentage of the final

course grade, are as follows:

Step #1—Week 3 Unit 2: Upload your Proposed Paper Topic (50 pts, 5% of final grade)

Step #2—Week 4 Unit 2: Upload your Critical Argument Summary (50 pts, 5% of final grade)

Step #3—Week 6 Unit 2: Upload your Annotated Bibliography (100 pts, 10% of final grade)

Step #4—Week 7 Unit 2: Upload your Research Paper (200 pts, 20% of final grade)

Further directions for these individual assignments can be found below. First, however, you

should know what the expectations are for the Research Paper, as the other assignments will

help you build towards this final piece.

Research Paper Directions

Your research paper should be an argumentative essay that makes a specific claim about one of

the course readings. The claim should be made by applying specific schools of literary criticism

from the “Critical Strategies for Reading” section of our textbook. Support this claim and

argument in a well-developed, well-written, and well-organized essay of at least 2000 words

(roughly 6-8 typed, double-spaced pages). To support your argument, incorporate quotes,

summaries, or paraphrases from at least five sources accessed through the GMC library. In

order for you to succeed in this assignment, read and reread the following directions:

-Many of the writers we cover in this class might be difficult to find information on through the

GMC library. Because of this, I have narrowed down the list of authors you are allowed to write

about. You MUST choose one of the following authors as the topic for your paper: Tim

O’Brien, Jamaica Kincaid, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt

Whitman, Anne Bradstreet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Blake, Robert Frost, Emily

Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Susan Glaspell, or Henrik Isben. You are not allowed to write

about any other not on this list. Note that some of these authors are covered late in the course, so

you will want to read ahead to find authors that interest you.

-Use your textbook as a resource. Review the “Critical Strategies for Reading” section in the

back of our textbook pages 2041-2064 and the “Reading and Writing Process” section pages

2065-2116.

-Reread the texts you loved or had difficulty with and take careful notes: brainstorm, journal,

free-write, and research with those questions in mind. All of these things will help you narrow

down your topic.

-Once you have decided on a topic, begin doing preliminary research (you will need to do a lot

of research for this assignment anyway). Read what other literary critics have said. This will

help you to further narrow down your topic, and even to find some of the sources you will end up

using in the paper. Remember that you are a literary critic too—this means you should feel free

to question and disagree with the interpretations you read.

-Make sure your thesis is an arguable one, something that readers might actually agree or

disagree with. Don’t be afraid to take a leap and put forward a new, creative, and/or unique

interpretation. Remember that any argument can be a good one if you properly support it with

evidence from the text.

-Your paper must incorporate information from outside sources found through the GMC library.

Remember that you have three methods for incorporating outside information into any paper:

you can quote (use the source’s exact words), paraphrase (put the source’s words into your own

words), or summarize (boil down information from a source to a 1-2 sentence summary in your

own words). If you need to review these topics, check out the information at the Purdue OWL

here http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/

-Avoid unnecessary plot summary and biographical information. Assume that your reader has

already read the work you are discussing, and assume that your reader knows important

information about the author’s life already.

-Play the numbers game. Remember that your paper must be at least 2,000 words (not counting

the Works Cited), and the paper must include at least 5 sources accessed from the GMC library.

Note that sources like Wikipedia, Sparknotes, and other open-web sources are not appropriate for

this paper. Conduct your research through the library like a real researcher, rather than relying

on Google to find open-web sources that may not be appropriate.

-MLA formatting for paper style, in-text citations, and the Works Cited is a significant part of

this paper. Review the sample essays in our textbook, the Purdue OWL MLA section

(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/), and other MLA guides for examples of

what your paper should look like.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

-Organize your argument to maximize its effectiveness. Your introduction should include a

thesis. Each paragraph of your paper should include a topic sentence that references your thesis.

Each sentence in each paragraph should directly support that paragraph’s topic sentence.

-Finally, don’t forget the little things. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be perfect.

Edit and revise your work. Manage your time efficiently to allow yourself the opportunity to

read and reread your final paper multiple times.

-As always, contact your instructor whenever you have questions.

-The general rubric for the Research Paper is provided below:

Argument

40 points

Application of Critical Reading Strategy 40 points

Use, Quality, and Correctness of Research,

including MLA formatting

40 points

Explication of literature (Support) 40 points

Higher-Order Concerns (Development,

Organization, etc.)

20 points

Lower-Order Concerns (Spelling, Grammar,

and Punctuation)

20 points

-Your Research Paper should be uploaded in the appropriate space at the end of Week #7.

Proposed Paper Topic Directions

Your research paper needs to be an argumentative paper, and this means that your introduction

should include a thesis statement that focuses your paper on an arguable, supportable, and

interesting claim. This thesis should state the author and literary work or works you will be

focusing on. While the actual argumentative claim provided in this thesis may change as you

research, your paper must be on the author you choose here. This will help you guard against

procrastination later in the course.

-Submit your Proposed Paper Topic by providing the following information:

Your name:

Author you will discuss:

Work or works you will discuss:

Thesis statement:

-For further guidance in writing thesis statements and choosing topics, see pages 2069-2072 in

our textbook.

-The general rubric for the Proposed Paper Topic is provided below:

Includes author to be discussed

10 points

Includes work or works to be discussed 10 points

Quality of thesis statement 25 points

Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation 5 points

-Your Proposed Paper Topic should be uploaded in the appropriate space at the end of Week 3.

Critical Argument Summary Directions

The Critical Argument Summary gives you the opportunity to start formally interacting with

some of the literary criticism on your author, work, and/or topic, as well as giving you the

opportunity to practice your quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing skills. For this assignment,

you will locate one scholarly article on your proposed topic and summarize the article. As you

summarize, relate the article back to your own topic and argument. Follow these instructions

carefully:

-The article you use should be accessed through the GMC library. Open-web sources, such as

Wikipedia, Sparknotes, or other websites, are not permitted.

-To find your article online, access the GMC library website. Search “Databases by Subject”

and choose “Literature” as your subject. Any of the databases you choose from there should

have articles related to your topic. Remember to use advanced searches so that you can choose

options such as “Full-text only,” which will allow you to access full-length articles from your

computer. Note that book sources can be used on the paper, but for this assignment, you should

find a short article so that you can appropriately summarize it in a short paper.

-Once you have located a source, summarize the argument made by the author of the source as it

pertains to the author you are writing about and/or a literary work you will be analyzing. Use

quotes as examples, and summarize or paraphrase important passages.

-You should introduce your source and the part of their argument which pertains to the thesis of

your Research Paper. Then, engage with their ideas. Explain whether or not you agree or

disagree with their points. This exercise will provide you with a lot of relevant material to use as

you compose your Research Paper, as well as your Annotated Bibliography.

-Your Critical Argument Summary should be at least 700 words. Include a Works Cited that lists

full, MLA-formatted information for the article.

-The general rubric for the Critical Article Summary is provided below:

Located an Appropriate, Scholarly Article 10 points

Thorough Article Summary (includes quoting,

summarizing, and paraphrasing)

20 points

Relates Article to Chosen Topic 5 points

MLA Formatting for Citations and Works

Cited

10 points

Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation 5 points

-Your Critical Argument Summary should be uploaded in the appropriate space at the end of

Week 4.

Annotated Bibliography Directions

An Annotated Bibliography is essentially a list of sources you intend to use in your paper much

like a Works Cited, except that here, you will also include a 3-5 sentence description that

summarizes each source. This description is also known as an “notation.” The Annotated

Bibliography is thus an important step in the research process, allowing you to list sources you

intend to use for your paper and some brief information about each source. As a step in the

research process, completion of the Annotated Bibliography also ensures that your research is

nearly complete in advance of the actual Research Paper due date. As you compose your

Annotated Bibliography, follow these instructions carefully:

-Check out the Purdue OWL page on Annotated Bibliographies here

(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/). Note that sample notations can be found

here (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/), although I am only asking for your

annotations to be about half of the length of these samples.

-Once again, you will need to play the numbers game. Your Annotated Bibliography should

contain at least five scholarly resources accessed through the GMC library. Each resource

should have a notation of at least 3-5 sentences. This notation should summarize the main

argument of the source and explain how this might fit into your own paper.

-The general rubric for the Annotated Bibliography is provided below:

Includes at least Five Appropriate Sources 30 points

Quality of Annotations 30 points

MLA Formatting 30 points

Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation 10 points

-Your Annotated Bibliography should be uploaded in the appropriate space at the end of Week 6.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

How to Tell a True War Story  by Tim O’Brien 

One of These Days” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

Lust by Susan Minot

Outage” by John Updike

A & P by Updike 

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway

Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver

A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner

 Poem by William Carlos Williams

Calvary Crossing a Ford by Walt Whitman 

The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet 

The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake page

 I will put Chaos into fourteen lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

Trifles by Susan Glaspell 

I, Too by Langston Hughes 

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes 

The Negro Speaks of rivers by Langston Hughes 

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes 

 A Doll’s House by Henrik Isben 

A Study of Langston Hughes

A Study of Emily Dickinson

A Study of Robert Frost

A Study of William Faulkner

A Study of Flannery O’Connor