You probably already know a little something about this author and literary work, but it's important to find out more in order to write an intelligent research paper.
Ask yourself:
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Understanding Your Assignment
Before you begin looking for information you should make sure you understand your assignment. Some good questions are:
Your professor is your best resource to answer these questions.
Breaking Down The Research Process
The following outline gives a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. We are ready to help you at every step in your research.
The proposal will be a 250 minimum and 300-word maximum MLA document that elaborates an idea of what you are proposing your paper will discuss. It will identify the topic and theme from Watership Down by Richard Adams, the ideas you are looking to explore, and a working thesis. You must have these four elements in your proposal.
What would you tell an audience about your upcoming essay? What would make the audience interested to hear more about your ideas?
Keep in mind that during the process, there can and will be changes. The proposal is a starting point. As you research, select your articles and think about your paper, you might uncover something you did not think of earlier. The proposal can and will change as you discover more in your research.
I will be grading on the four elements:
A proposal with less than 50% will be returned for revision and be capped at 75%. You must have an accepted proposal to complete the research module. Think of your proposal as being similar to a very rough draft of an introduction paragraph, but instead of guiding your essay, your proposal will guide your research.
Possible Themes:
As you now know, Watership Down is not just a fluffy bunny story. While we are emersed in a world where the main characters are rabbits, the themes are all too human.
For your final research essay, you will expand on your ideas from your accepted proposal and support those ideas with the research you have completed from your annotated bibliography.
Your final essay should be a 2,000 word approx.
8-page MLA structured research essay that discusses the theme with both textual support and academic research that support your argument.
Click below to see if there's a research guide on your author or literary work.
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Literary Criticism is discussion, analysis or appraisal of a literary work-whether a novel, poem, play, short story or essay. |
As a literary critic, you will read and study a piece of literature and attempt to:
The guide will help you find biographical and critical information about authors and their works.
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