- Includes at least 5 reliable sources (including one newspaper, one popular magazine/book, one academic article/book)
- Properly formats in-text citations throughout the essay, MLA-style
- Properly formats the Works Cited page at the end of the essay, MLA-style
- Offers a strong, clearly worded thesis statement
- Logically organizes ideas into paragraphs with narrowly focused main ideas.
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Write a 6.5-8 page research paper that critically examines a topic of special interest to you.
- Include a “Works Cited” page (in addition to the 7-8 pages)
- Follow proper MLA format for citations and bibliography
- You must have at least 5 reliable sources; of the five:
- 1 source from a newspaper
- 1 source from a popular magazine or book
- 1 source from an academic/scholarly source (journal or book)
- find a newspaper article about a specific event related to your topic — summarize.
- find a magazine article on the larger idea related to your topic.
- find a scholarly article that deeply investigates, historicizes, or analyzes an issue related to your topic.
- light pollution doesn’t simply happen, but light pollution is damaging.
- the American diet isn’t simply high in sugars, but the American diet leads to poor mental and physical health.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder doesn’t simply happen to people who have experienced trauma, but is a coping mechanism for that trauma.
- haunted houses don’t simply exist, but the stories of haunted houses preserve traumatic moments of history that often get erased or forgotten in history books.
- the electric guitar isn’t simply an important instrument in rock n’ roll, but severed its connections to acoustic American "roots" to disrupt a mythologized vision of national identity.
- The Golden State Warriors are not simply a basketball team in California; they are a team that has defied expectations and a history of underfunding.
- Dream research around lucid dreaming
- Mental and emotional effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
- Political and cultural divisions from the pandemic?
- The emotional and cultural damages of socially repressive societies — if repression causes personal anxiety, can it also cause anxiety for a whole community or nation?
- Afrofuturism and current art practices
- The hiding of Africa’s great historical past
- Hip-hop and activism
- Other minority groups movements of struggle and liberation
- Accurately summarizes and paraphrases evidence from sources
- Chooses relevant quotes and thoughtfully explains the relevance
- Uses language that indicates how evidence and ideas cohere to the thesis
- Is beautifully written and proofread so that grammar errors and typos are mostly
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Three (+2) Sources:
You may write about whatever topic you are interested in.
As we collect information, I will ask you to:
You will provided an annotated bibliography on each of your five sources: one paragraph summary + one paragraph evaluation.
Critically Examines?
Your research paper will not simply be a bland summary of information from various sources. Your essay will explain to your reader how to understand this information — what it means, and how it all fits together. YOU are the authorial mastermind behind the whole project that leads your reader to understand this topic in a particular way.
For example:
Your essay should critically engage with the material you’ve discovered in your research in order to teach your readers what is important about your topic.
What should I write about?
Do you want to dig deeper into something we discussed in class?
Do you want to research something you love? hate? never understood? already know a lot about? We’ll do some brainstorming and collaborating in class.
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