Part One:
Due April 13, 2009
Pick one of the topics listed on our Research Paper Topics Page  or one of your own invention, as long as your primary focus is on one of the texts discussed this semester.

This will be your topic not only for this assignment, but for the final research paper as well.
 

• You will NOT be able to submit a final research paper if you have not first successfully completed (i.e received a passing grade on) this assignment !!
• If you change your research paper topic, you must submit a new library assignment for the new topic !!

• Go to the Soper Library & look up sources (books, magazines, microfilm/fiche) on that subject.
• Get on the web and look up sources for that subject.
• Generate a list of twenty (20) SECONDARY sources, including AT LEAST five (5) books, five (5) journal articles, and five (5) on-line articles.  If you can not find twenty SECONDARY sources, PICK ANOTHER TOPIC! 
• Compile a TYPED list of Works Cited for the sources, using proper MLA Format. (see sample )
• Please include at the top of the page what your research topic is!
• Submit copies of the first page(s) of each of the works.
• For each of these sources, please HIGHLIGHT the thesis statement.

Part Two:
Library Paper (500 word minimum)
April 22, 2009

Pick one of the SECONDARY sources from the list you compiled in Part One.

• Do NOT use one of the sources found in our textbook (e.g. Collings, Smith, Zakharieva, etc.) !!

• Read through the source, whether in its entirety (article or web page) or its introduction (book-length piece).
• TYPE a 500-word discussion of the main argument of the work, including a summary of the main points and an explanation of which critical perspective(s) (feminist, psychoanalytic, etc.) is/are utilized in the discussion.
• Incorporate at least two (2) quotes from the work and explain how they demonstrate the perspective(s) you have identified, using proper MLA format and providing accurate parenthetical citation.
• Make sure to include a Works Cited entry for the source in proper MLA format.
• See sample