Informative Essay V: Annotated Bibliography
Essay V: Annotated Bibliography
Essay VI: Research Paper
ENG 101
14 November 2013
Nov 21: Annotated bibliography due at start of class,
Dec 5: Essay 6 peer review in class
Dec 12: Essay 6 final draft due at 10:30 a.m.
Overview of the assignment
For Essays 5 and 6, you’ll continue working with your Essay 4 short story and topic. But whereas that essay involved no outside sources, this project focuses primarily on finding out and reporting on what literary critics have said about your topic. Essay 5, an “annotated bibliography” which you’ll give summary information from your findings, will lead into Essay 6, the research paper itself.
Essay 5—Annotated bibliography: details
Research your Essay 4 topic in both Literature …show more content…
Resources from Gale and Literature Resource Center., both of which are accessible through the JSCC libraries website. Please use only those databases, and limit your search to “peer-reviewed” journals (see the Handbook 424).
Select at least five articles that relate to your topic, aiming for a variety of points of view and years of publication, and read them carefully.
Then prepare your annotated bib. It should include the following:
Information about the five articles formatted as MLA Works Cited entries a two- to three-sentence description of each article’s contents one sentence on how it relates to your topic
An example is given below, at page 3.
Essay 6—research paper: details.
Write on what literary critics have said about the topic that you wrote on for Essay 4. Use at least three of the sources listed in your Annotated Bib. The essay should be at least 900 words.
Though you’ll primarily be reporting on what others have said, you also should think about a general point about their views that can tie them together. (For example, is there something they all agree on? Are there sharp differences of opinion? Have critical views changed significantly over time?) This general point should then serve as your thesis statement.
The essay should be documented using the MLA format, with in-text citations and a Works Cited page. In addition to citing your research sources, you should also cite the story itself for Essay 6.
Please consult the Handbook as you work. Part 9 is very good on the working with sources and writing a research paper. Part 10 has complete information on the MLA citation format. The library website has links for numerous reliable online guides as …show more content…
well.
Essays 5 and 6—other information:
Format and layout requirements: normal font, 12-point size double-spaced one-inch margins on all sides left-justified only page numbers at upper right corner your name, course and section number, and date at top left of first page of Annotated Bib and Essay
[amended 19 November 2013]
[your name]
ENG 101
14 November 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Crosman, Robert.
“How Readers Make Meaning.” College Literature 9.3 (1982): 207-15. Print.
Crosman’s article sets out a general theory of ways in which readers participate in the process of making meaning to at least as great an extent as do authors themselves. With respect to Faulkner, he notes that the narrator is, in effect, a meaning-making “reader” of Emily’s “story. This description of the narrator directly relates to my topic’s focus on the narrator’s attitude toward Emily.
Heller, Terry. “The Telltale Hair: A Critical Study of William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily.’” Arizona Quarterly 28.4 (1972): 301-18. Print.
In this article, Heller provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of many features of Faulknser’s story. He says that readers’ sympathies for Emily are engaged largely because the narrator portrays her as a sympathetic character before discussing her much less-sympathetic conduct. Heller’s insight offers one way to understand the relationship between Emily and the narrator that my topic addresses.
[and so
on….]
Essay VI: Research Paper
ENG 101
14 November 2013
Nov 21: Annotated bibliography due at start of class,
Dec 5: Essay 6 peer review in class
Dec 12: Essay 6 final draft due at 10:30 a.m.
Overview of the assignment
For Essays 5 and 6, you’ll continue working with your Essay 4 short story and topic. But whereas that essay involved no outside sources, this project focuses primarily on finding out and reporting on what literary critics have said about your topic. Essay 5, an “annotated bibliography” which you’ll give summary information from your findings, will lead into Essay 6, the research paper itself.
Essay 5—Annotated bibliography: details
Research your Essay 4 topic in both Literature …show more content…
Resources from Gale and Literature Resource Center., both of which are accessible through the JSCC libraries website. Please use only those databases, and limit your search to “peer-reviewed” journals (see the Handbook 424).
Select at least five articles that relate to your topic, aiming for a variety of points of view and years of publication, and read them carefully.
Then prepare your annotated bib. It should include the following:
Information about the five articles formatted as MLA Works Cited entries a two- to three-sentence description of each article’s contents one sentence on how it relates to your topic
An example is given below, at page 3.
Essay 6—research paper: details.
Write on what literary critics have said about the topic that you wrote on for Essay 4. Use at least three of the sources listed in your Annotated Bib. The essay should be at least 900 words.
Though you’ll primarily be reporting on what others have said, you also should think about a general point about their views that can tie them together. (For example, is there something they all agree on? Are there sharp differences of opinion? Have critical views changed significantly over time?) This general point should then serve as your thesis statement.
The essay should be documented using the MLA format, with in-text citations and a Works Cited page. In addition to citing your research sources, you should also cite the story itself for Essay 6.
Please consult the Handbook as you work. Part 9 is very good on the working with sources and writing a research paper. Part 10 has complete information on the MLA citation format. The library website has links for numerous reliable online guides as …show more content…
well.
Essays 5 and 6—other information:
Format and layout requirements: normal font, 12-point size double-spaced one-inch margins on all sides left-justified only page numbers at upper right corner your name, course and section number, and date at top left of first page of Annotated Bib and Essay
[amended 19 November 2013]
[your name]
ENG 101
14 November 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Crosman, Robert.
“How Readers Make Meaning.” College Literature 9.3 (1982): 207-15. Print.
Crosman’s article sets out a general theory of ways in which readers participate in the process of making meaning to at least as great an extent as do authors themselves. With respect to Faulkner, he notes that the narrator is, in effect, a meaning-making “reader” of Emily’s “story. This description of the narrator directly relates to my topic’s focus on the narrator’s attitude toward Emily.
Heller, Terry. “The Telltale Hair: A Critical Study of William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily.’” Arizona Quarterly 28.4 (1972): 301-18. Print.
In this article, Heller provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of many features of Faulknser’s story. He says that readers’ sympathies for Emily are engaged largely because the narrator portrays her as a sympathetic character before discussing her much less-sympathetic conduct. Heller’s insight offers one way to understand the relationship between Emily and the narrator that my topic addresses.
[and so
on….]