Order instructions
PURPOSE: You will submit an original researched argument developing a narrow, clear, arguable, and worthwhile thesis related to the poetry or drama covered in our class discussions.
You will demonstrate that you are thoroughly familiar with a text or texts and can weigh scholarly claims and evidence for competing interpretations. You will advance your argument in dialogue—agreement, disagreement, or some combination—with scholarly sources.
FORMAT: MLA.
LENGTH: Five (5) full pages to six (6) full pages, not including the Works Cited page.
ORGANIZATION: Your paper will include the basic elements the classical argument structure: an introduction with a thesis, a body of evidence, and a conclusion. A separate Works Cited page must follow the essay.
SOURCES: Your argument will be supported through dialogue with approved scholarly sources. Such sources will include university-press books or peer-reviewed articles searchable through the scholarly databases made available through our library (e.g., JSTOR, EBSCO). Sources searchable through a simple Google search, including but by no means limited to Wikipedia and SparkNotes, will not be acceptable.
Sources must be summarized, paraphrased and quoted correctly and appropriately.
A minimum of five (5) separate scholarly sources must be used.
