Your paper must include at least TWO outside sources (no more than three) which are critical analyses of the work, not biographical information or book reviews (unless from the NY Times Book Review), and all direct quotations and/or paraphrases must be completely documented, and attachments of all material that is quoted or paraphrased from both primary and secondary sources must be handed in with the paper (copy your webpage and paste it into your word document).  You must highlight all areas from which you quote or paraphrase, on the electonic copies.  For poetry, copies of the complete poems must be included as well.

This site will help you get started doing your research! http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/meyer/bedintrolit/content/xdx_menu.htm

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

You are not to use book reviews (unless they are from the NY Times Book Review) or Cliff’s Notes, Monarch Notes or Baron Notes, or Plot summaries of any kind. This includes anything by BookRags.com, Classic Notes.com, Grade Savere, Master Plots, Term Papers.com, or any sort of plot summary or anything from the web EXCEPT for bonafide reviews and critical articles. You MUST include the copies of your articles when emailing me your paper. You can copy from the internet, paste into a Word document.

  Your paper must also include the appropriate use of quotations from your primary sources as needed to illustrate your point.  Do not quote unless you have a reason for doing so! Quotations are used when you are borrowing someone else's theory or belief, or you are showing what specific area of the text caused you yourself to have a particular theory or belief. Never quote a secondary source quoting your primary source.  This has no purpose.  Instead, refer to your primary source itself, quote it if necessary, and then quote what your secondary source (critical reviewer) has to say ABOUT the passage. Also, you must always set up your quotation or paraphrase with an introduction explaining who this person is that you are quoting (i.e., Joan Smith, author of "Seven Ideas about Molly" says that. . .)

See online MLA for more information about properly documenting and quoting sources; also, your book has a sample research paper in the back, and discusses how to do a literary research paper!

Also, explore the Bedford handbook online and follow Research Paper Links:

This site has a really good tutorial on all aspects of doing research:

http://www.bedfordresearcher.com/tutorials.cfm

This site helps with all aspects of online citations and documentation: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html#1

www.rlc.dcccd.edu/lrc/ppt/mla.ppt

These sites help you get started with your topic and research:

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/meyer/bedintrolit/content/xdx_menu.htm

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/literature.html#web_resources

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/intext.html

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Your paper should include (in the following order): 

1. authorship statement

2. an outline (optional)

3. the actual paper, with an introduction, a clear thesis, organized discussion, and a conclusion

4. a works cited page

5. appropriate copies scanned or copied into your paper at the end and emailed in one packet

ALL LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCORDED ONE FULL GRADE POINT PENALTY .NO PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT ALL MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATE DURING FULL TERMS, AND 3 DAYS LATE DURING SUMMER TERMS.NO ONE CAN EXPECT TO PASS THIS COURSE WITHOUT COMPLETING A RESEARCH PAPER!!!
 

If you wish me to look at a rough draft, I will be more than happy to do so.

Isabel Allende

Alice Munro