Research Paper
For this assignment, you will write an essay that explores a question or
issue surrounding a topic related to any that we have been examining in class
all semester (including our journal assignment). We will brainstorm some
of the issues you might consider in class, but it will still be up to you to
develop a theme in your own work that is credible for your own paper. You
should use at least two primary sources of your choice, at least three secondary sources, and any other texts you deem helpful to your
argument.
In your paper, you should anticipate using the primary and secondary
texts in some kind of dialectic. In other words, the sources should
speak to or reinforce one another. Your paper will show evidence of our
work all semester. We’ve been looking at ways to think about texts, we
have been “in conversation with” academics and academic writing, we
have been questioning our habits of mind, and we have been analyzing
ideas. Perhaps most importantly, we have been learning how to have ideas
ourselves. Here is your chance to show what idea(s) of your own you can
come up with in relation to the texts we’ve been reading and make an argument
of your own about them.
This paper needs to:
- Clearly establish your claim (guiding
principle, observation, assertion, thesis), which you believe evidence
from both primary and secondary sources explores and/or supports. - Clearly present and discuss your reading of the
primary texts you are considering (focused description.) - Clearly present the perspectives of your
secondary sources as they relate to your primary texts and your focus. - Incorporate, cite, and explain quoted and
paraphrased evidence in the citation style of your choice. - Show analysis. Ask and answer: So what?
- Establish and follow a recognizable
organization. - Create connection and fluidity through a
variety of transitional devices. - Culminate by bringing significant threads
together; evaluate by revisiting the original claim and making a judgment;
challenge the reader and awaken further thinking.Note:
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