ENGL 121 Spring 2023
Assignment Description – Research Project
This paper will be 7 – 10 pp. in length. You’ll need to select one – two literary* texts ( to be approved by me) which you’ll read closely and synthesize (if using two) in a specific context.
The “Works Cited” page must list at least five (5) quality sources in addition to the primary text/s you'll be focussing on; most of these should be referenced in the project itself. Of these, at least three must be scholarly; the remaining ones may be quality specialized-reference sources on the work/s you’re writing about, as well as subjects like history and biography, which will provide background for your literary analysis.
The grade for this paper will be a composite of the Proposal (marked Pass/ Fail and worth 10% of the final grade), Annotated Bibliography (25%; letter grade), and first (10%; Pass/ Fail) and final drafts (50%; letter grade); and other work, like quiz/zes and peer review (5%). Descriptions and requirements for these are also available in BlackBoard. Like all your other written work in this class, this paper must follow the .
Here are some topic/ approach recommendations to help you get started:
· Many of the authors we’re studying this term have been quite prolific, so, if you like something we read, you may want to choose one – two other works by that same author;
· You may even expand one of the essays we’ll have written this term into a research paper or other project;
· If you’re interested in a topic or issue like racism or the environment, you may choose one – two literary works that have this as a theme;
· *Alternatively, you can make an argument for reading something as literature (applying the same close-reading and analytic strategies we’ve been practicing) that normally isn’t considered literature. Suitable genres include but aren’t limited to memoirs, essays, correspondence …
