Outline (excluding title which I can do)
2. The question
Give this section of your paper its own heading.
Start this paragraph with one or two sentences that proceed from general to specific, in order to identify relevant facts.
Next, in a single sentence, identify and justify your initial focus. What is the aspect of either The Testament of Cresseid or Oroonoko that you have been researching in particular? For example, are you looking at Behns depiction of the otan in Oroonoko? Are you concentrating on Henrysons depiction of the lepers way of life in The Testament of Cresseid? Why is this specific focus of particular interest and importance?
Next, in one or two sentences, provide an authoritative interpretation of this specific focus. This will be a source from Gale Literature Resource Center. Quote extremely briefly (at most a phrase or two); do not provide a lengthy block quotation. Summarize the source in your own words, and take care to provide a correct parenthetical reference.
Now, respond critically, in two steps. First, in a single sentence, identify what is it about this interpretation that you agree with. Next, in one or two sentences, respond critically to this authoritative interpretation. Importantly, how does your perspective, emphasis, or interpretation differ from those of your source? For an outline of how to do this, look at Graff and Birkensteins advice about disagreeing without being disagreeable, in the resource Preparing your Research Paper 1: Asking a Good Question in Module 1 for this course.
Based on what you can now say about the originality of your approach, state your question. For more advice, consult Preparing your Research Paper 1. This part of the paragraph needs to be only a single sentence
End this paragraph with a sentence that identifies your motivation for answering this question. This can take a very simple form: it would begin, It is important to answer because
When complete, this section can be estimated to consist of ten to twelve sentences.
3. The insight
Give this section of your paper its own heading.
Start this paragraph with a sentence that identifies and defines an authoritative concept or method that is valuable for developing and testing an answer to the question. Your source must be derived from Oxford Reference. It is expected that you look more deeply than a brief Overview article in this database.
Next, in one or two sentences, identify how this concept or method is generally applicable or relevant to the narrative you are studying. To distinguish this source from the other sources you are citing and discussing in this paper, let us call it the primary source and the other ones, secondary sources.
In an important transitional sentence, make your initial application of this concept or method to a key passage in your primary source. Identify where in your source this key passage occurs.
Now you have arrived at the core of your insight paragraph. Present your key passage through direct quotation. Be careful not to quote too much or too little. Quote only what you are going to discuss specifically. Your presentation will likely take the form of a block quotation. This is one place where expectations in our course will differ from Requirements for Essays: please treat quotations (whether in prose or verse) that are longer than three lines as block quotations, in their original form.
What happens next is that you identify your actual insight. As a result of the research process, what is it that you can now understand about the passage you have just quoted? This section needs to at least two sentences long.
Once again, conclude your paragraph by stating a motivation for developing your insight. State what your discovery makes possible if it were applied more intensively to the primary source you have been studying.
When complete, this section can be estimated to consist of eight to ten sentences.
4. Works Cited
The citations in this list will follow MLA (Links to an external site.) style.
The list should include one reference from Gale Literature Resource Center and one reference from Oxford Reference.
The list should also include one reference to a resource from this course (in addition to the primary text). (student note: hey, I can do this part on my own so don’t worry about it)
The list should also include a reference to your primary text
The article I would like used from the Gale Literature Resource Centre will be attached as a file. If you find a better research question or key insight within this article, please don’t hesitate to go with it rather than my original research question.
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