Research Paper Literary Topic Chapter 5

Authors Literary Periods

Sandra Cisneros Langston Hughes Kate Chopin James Baldwin James Joyce Charlotte Perkins Gillman Earnest Hemingway DH Lawrence William Faulkner Alice Walker Robert Frost Seamus Heaney Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton Elizabeth Bishop EE Cummings Henrik Ibsen Marlowe Shakespeare

Renaissance Enlightenment Romanticism Transcendentalism Victorian Realism Naturalism Modernism Bloomsbury Existentialism Beat generation

Literary Genres

Gothic Southern Gothic Ghost Story Myths Folklore Fairy tale Fable Graphic novel Romance Realistic Fiction Satire

Fanfiction Fantasy horror Magical realism Mythology Science fiction Slave narrative Dystopian Tragedy Comedy Drama Crime/Detective

A particular work, features of a work, or different critical views of a work

A particular author or the relationship between the author’s life and work

The social, historical, or cultural background of a work

Political, philosophical, artistic influences on the author’s work

A theme of characters compared across two or more works.

Page 186- Some popular areas of literary research

Page 195- how to summarize, paraphrase, quote, and not plagiarize

Ellipsis is wrong in textbook Encouraged to read James Joyce’s “Eveline”

& research paper pages 200-212 I will be here tomorrow, so please feel free

to bring in topic submissions early, laptops/ipads to help you start researching ideas and topics, etc.

Drama Analysis due at midnight tonight.

Common errors on previous papers

Your thesis isn’t supported entirely by the body paragraphs Intro’s thesis is too detailed. Use this in your conclusion Body paragraphs have no topic sentence to guide the rest of

the paragraph Too many topics in one body paragraph and thus none of the

topics/ideas are fully developed Don’t use very Creative title Italicize titles of major works, use quotations for minor works Capitalization of titles of texts 1st & 2nd person pronouns- only use if absolutely necessary. DO

NOT SAY “I think” or “I believe”!!!!! Really grab your readers’ attention Numbers at the beginning of sentences must be spelled out

and numbers within a sentence must be spelled out if it is a single word number (i.e. one, four, fourteen, thirty)

Don’t start sentences with FANBOYS/coordinating conjunctions DON’T USE RANDOM “QUOTATION MARKS”

Original Quote: “She always walks with me down the halls chattering a million miles a minute” (Anderson 24).

Wrong: Heather “… walks with [Melinda] down the halls…” (Anderson 24).

Right: Heather “walks with [Melinda] down the halls” (Anderson 24).

Right: Heather “walks with [Melinda] … chattering a million miles a minute” (Anderson 24).

Ellipsis & p.d. punctuation

Original Quote: “She always walks with me down the halls chattering a million miles a minute” (Anderson 24).

Wrong: Heather “walks with [Melinda] down the halls.” (Anderson 24)

Right: Anderson states that Heather “walks with [Melinda] down the halls” (24).

Right: On page 24, Anderson states that Heather “walks with [Melinda] … chattering a million miles a minute.”

Punctuation & p.d. with quotations

If the quote is a question Sally asked Joe, “Where have you been?”

If the sentence is a question Joe, did you hear mom say, “Get up”?

Question marks with quotations

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, the protagonist goes insane.

In the poem “The Road Not Taken,” written by Robert Frost, the speaker contemplates taking the path least traveled or the easier path in life that everyone takes.

Commas with titles of minor works, including article titles

End of sentence, not quote Outside of quote if quote is at the end of the

sentence Don’t use quotation marks with blocked

quotes Period goes after p.d. unless it is a blocked

quote

Parenthetical documentation

Commas!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Compound Sentences & Coordinating Conjunction FANBOYS- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Note: the comma goes before, not after,

the coordinating conjunctions. Note: coordinating conjunctions need to

connect two independent clauses. They are not used to join a dependent to an independent clause.

Sally went to the party, but she forgot to bring an appetizer.

Sally went to the party but forgot to bring an appetizer.

Complex Sentences Dependent words are either a subordinating

conjunction or relative pronoun. Use when the clause the dependent word

begins is less important than or explains the other clause.

If dependent clause comes first in the sentence, use a comma to separate it from the independent clause. NOT VISE VERSA!!◦ Because Sally was out of milk, she went to the store. ◦ Sally went to the store because she was out of milk.

Subordinating Conjunctions After Although As As if As long as As much as As soon as As though Because Before Even if Even though If In as much In order that

Lest Now that Provided that Since So that Than that Though Unless Until When Whenever Where Wherever While

Relative Pronouns

Sally, who is an introvert, went on a blind date with Tom whom is a dentist.

Who Whoever Whom Whomever Whose That Which

Please note that the following can function as a relative pronoun in certain situations◦ What◦ When◦ Where

Walmart, which was crowded, was out of milk which Sally needed to make pies.

Research Paper Revise and Edit

Highlight in yellow all quotes and parenthetical documentation

Check for◦ All parenthetical documentations are also in your

works cited page.◦ All entries in your works cited page appears in

your paper at least once as parenthetical documentation

◦ Period goes after parenthetical documentation◦ Parenthetical documentation goes at the end of

the sentence, not at the end of the quote. ◦ If article online, no page number◦ Quotes longer than 4 lines must be indented (see

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have the same title? What if I have more than one work by the

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Give the name of the specific edition you are using, any editor(s) associated with it, followed by the publication information. Remember that your in-text (parenthetical citation) should include the name of the specific edition of the Bible, followed by an abbreviation of the book, the chapter and verse(s).

For example◦ The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Susan Jones. New

York: Doubleday, 1985. Print.

How do I cite the Bible on the Works Cited Page?

In your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you're using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse.

For example:◦ Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures,"

each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).

If future references employ the same edition of the Bible you’re using, list only the book, chapter, and verse in the parenthetical citation.

How do I cite the Bible as P.D.?

TitlesItalicize quote

Books Plays Poems published as books Pamphlets Newspapers Magazines Journals Websites Online databases Films Television and radio broadcasts CDs Audio Cassettes Record Albums Dance performances Operas Long musical compositions Works of visual art Ships Aircraft spacecraft

Articles Essays Stories and poems

published within larger works

Chapters of books Pages in Websites Individual episodes of

television and radio broadcasts

Short musical compositions (i.e. songs)

Unpublished works, such as lectures and speeches.

Use single quotations

Quote inside of a quote

Due Thursday, April 23 at midnight via turnitin.com You will turn in to me on Friday your graded annotated

bibliography and rough draft. Minimum 3 pages, maximum 6 pages. This doesn’t

include the works cited page. Yes, it needs to be written in MLA format

◦ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ No, I will not push back the due date to Friday Yes, you have to write it unless you would like to fail

this class. Yes, this class’s grade goes on your college and high

school transcript. Yes, it is too late to drop this class.

The duh questions

Numbers that are one word, must be spelled out◦ One◦ Three◦ Seven ◦ Fifteen ◦ Twenty◦ Forty

Numbers

Ellipses

Don’t use at the beginning or the end of your quote. Only use it IF you are omitting information from the middle of the quote.

Ellipses