Cultural and Ethnic Studies Assignment | Top Essay Writing

 

This is the final paper for my class, Please do your best Thank you

 

• Number of pages: 4 pages/double spaced (1100 words)
• Number of source/references: 3

– Four typed pages: one inch margins, double spaced, 12-point font
– Name, course and section, semester, and due date should be in upper left-hand corner
– Page numbers should be in the bottom right corner
– Original title in regular type and centered
– Cite in MLA format found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

 

 

 

 

 

Research Paper

 

Write a well-organized, coherent 1000-word essay on the following topic. The essay should include specific examples from your selections. Your opening paragraph should make clear what you plan to discuss, and your body paragraphs should develop the ideas that you set out in the introduction. You should end with a conclusion that ties the essay together.

 

Topic:

 

Choose two writers from the course and compare/contrast their ideas. Focus on the connections between the two writers selected. Do the essays share any similar themes? Do the writers present different views?Incorporate two secondary sources into your paper, according to the instructions on the Research Paper handout posted on D2L.

 

Features of your paper:

 

Final Draft:

• Four typed pages: one inch margins, double spaced, 12-point font
• Name, course and section, semester, and due date should be in upper left-hand corner
• Page numbers should be in the bottom right corner
• Original title in regular type and centered
• Cite in MLA format found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

 

Conducting Research for an English Essay

 

Primary source: a literary text about which you are writing. The work of literature that is the subject of your interpretation and analysis.

 

Secondary source: a research source. A critical, scholarly work that is about your primary text or some aspect of your topic.

 

What is an appropriate secondary source? One that is…

• Credible and authoritative
  • Is the author an expert in the field? What are the author’s credentials?
  • Is the publication respected and scholarly? Is it intended for an academic audience?
  • Is the research peer reviewed?
• A work of literary criticism; namely, an analysis of your primary source(s) (or a work that helps to contextualize and inform your literary analysis)
• Applicable to your topic
• Current

 

Secondary sources to avoid:

• online content(essays, articles, blog posts, etc.) found using web searches (e.g., Google searches)
• online dictionaries (e.g., Dictionary.com) (instead use the Oxford English Dictionary, accessible online via York Libraries website)
• study guides (e.g., SparkNotes.com)
• online wikis (e.g., Wikipedia.org) (instead try Oxford Reference Online)

 

Sources to seek out:

• peer-reviewed journal articles
• books and book chapters
• interviewsin which authors discuss their own works
• reviews (provided they are suitably rigorous)
• reference works (e.g., encyclopedia entries; dictionaries, especially dictionaries of literary terms, etc.)

 

 

Locating sources and getting additional help

• Recommended eResources: MLA Bibliography; Literature Resource Center; Literature Criticism Online; JSTOR; Oxford English Dictionary (OED); Oxford Reference Online
• Consult with Curt Friehs, Vaughn College reference librarian

 

What kinds of quotations from secondary sources should you look for and use to strengthen your argument?

• a quotation directly about your topic and text (e.g., about the role of satire in Get Out)
• a description or an analysis of the author’s style or approach
• a description, summary, or interpretation of the primary text(s)
• a definition of a key term (from a reference work, the Oxford English Dictionary, or a dictionary of literary terms)
• a general description of, or an observation about, a pertinent social context
• a description of the genre in which your author is working (Gothic fiction, Comedy of Manners, detective fiction, theatre of the absurd…)

 

In general, use quotations from secondary sources to increase your credibility(ethos) by showing that you have consulted scholarship on your texts and topics. Quotations from secondary sources can also lend rigour and precision to your argument.

 

 

Using your Secondary Sources Effectively

• Quote, paraphrase, or summarize the author’s argument and cite the author correctly.
• Introduce, explain, and contextualize the quotation.
• Briefly discuss the quotation and connect what the author is saying to your own argument.

 

 

Graff and Birkenstein’s templates for introducing quotations:

• X states, “—–.” (or “argues,” “urges,” “insists”)
• According to X, “—–.”
• In her book, ______, X maintains that, “—–.”
• In X’s view, “—–.”

 

 

Graff and Birkenstein’s templates for explaining quotations:

• Basically, X is suggesting that —–.
• In other words, X believes that —–.
• X’s point is that —-.

 

 

 

Graff and Birkenstein’s templates for responding to quotations:

Graff and Birkenstein suggest Three Ways to Respond: 1) Agree, 2) Agree and disagree simultaneously, 3) Disagree – with reasons.

 

Agree:

• I agree that —.
• X is surely right about —.
• X’s comment is very useful because —.