English 1120 Research Essay
Choosing one of the topics listed below, write a 6-page comparison essay based on your own interpretation of the stories. Support your interpretation with specific evidence drawn from the texts of the stories themselves, and from a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 secondary sources. These must be scholarly sources: your grade will reflect the quality of your source material.
Your research may focus on any ideas—psychological, historical, sociological or literary—pertinent to the issues being explored in these stories. Since this is a short paper, confine your analysis to no more than three or four major points, so that you are able to explain your ideas about both stories thoroughly.
Use MLA style to document any quotations, paraphrases, or examples drawn from the stories and reference materials.
You must photocopy or print out the pages of your secondary sources from which you have taken either quotations or paraphrases. If you do not submit these photocopied pages, your paper will not be graded.
So choose just 1 out of 5 topics below, and two of the works as comparison are as below. They can be found easily on the internet.
Two of the works are:
Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Topics:
1. Explore and compare the phenomenon of “initiation” or “coming of age” as it is presented in two of the works we’ve studied. Possible approaches to this topic might be as follows:
a) Is “coming of age” or initiation a “one-time thing,” or can it occur multiple times?
b) What are the challenges or obstacles (social or personal) that might face a character on the brink of an initiation?
c) What might be the price of initiation? Do the benefits outweigh the cost, or not?
d) What might be the consequences of never having actually “come of age”?
2. Explore the significance of psychological trauma as it is demonstrated in two of the works studied this term. Include in your discussion the idea of the “coping strategies” that people develop when under stress, and how these strategies may have both positive and negative effects.
3. In two of the stories covered this term, investigate how the authors present problems related to the presence and operation of power dynamics in personal and social relationships.
4. When rigid ideologies, worn-out social conventions, and/or overly romantic or narrowly rational outlooks dominate interpersonal relationships, individuals and even whole communities can suffer. Discuss this in relation to two of the stories we’ve discussed this term.
5. In many of the stories we’ve read, the writers work in a very purposeful way with narrative perspective to reveal information about different characters, events, themes, and even the narrator of the story. Explore the effectiveness and significance of point of view and narrative voice in two of the works we’ve studied this term.
This research essay is 6 pages long, and I also need 2 pages of Research Essay Proposal
Structure: For your essay proposal, provide a short first paragraph in which you situate your reader within your overall argument and present your thesis. Then (in approximately two to four short central paragraphs), present a summary of the main points in your argument. Remember that a thesis must take a position that demands a process of reasoning (i.e. argument); think about what process of reasoning is required (what step goes first and why, which goes second and why, etc.) in order to support and explain your argument. Having briefly presented that argument, provide a concluding one- or two-sentence final paragraph in which you expand outwards to think about the logical and interpretive implications of this argument.
The final element of this proposal is a page listing 2 to 3 scholarly secondary sources (articles, chapters in books, other relevant documents) that you plan to use to support your argument. For each one, state in a well-developed sentence or two the main point of the piece and its purpose in your essay.
Basically is a Summary of this 6 page essay proposal, ( 2 pages)!
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