Literary Research Paper
Literary Research Paper
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Literary Research Paper
Now that you have learned about Literary Research For your research paper, you will choose one of the followin" rel="nofollow">ing topics and create a 5-6 page literary research paper.
Sin" rel="nofollow">ince this is a literary research paper, you will do the followin" rel="nofollow">ing thin" rel="nofollow">ings:
1. Create an origin" rel="nofollow">inal thesis 2. Use specific evidence from the story/stories to support your argument 3. Use published literary criticism to support your argument (Use the Alabama Virtual Library for your sources). 4. Use published sources on your topic to support your argument (Use the Alabama Virtual Library for your sources).
Topic Ideas for Research Paper. Usin" rel="nofollow">ing the stories or the authors from Chapter 10,
choose one of the followin" rel="nofollow">ing topics to develop:
1. A particular work. You might explore character or tone and style, ideas, structure, form, and the like. A research paper on a sin" rel="nofollow">ingle work is similar to an essay on the same work, except that the research paper takes in" rel="nofollow">into account more views and facts than those you are likely to have without the research.
2. A particular author. A project might focus on an idea or some facet of style, imagery, settin" rel="nofollow">ing, or tone of the author, tracin" rel="nofollow">ing the origin" rel="nofollow">ins and developments of the topic through a number of different stories, poems, or plays.
3. Comparison and Contrast: There are 2 types:
1) An idea or quality common to two or more authors. Here you show poin" rel="nofollow">ints of
similarity or contrast, or else you show how one author’s work can be to taken to
criticize another’s.
2) Different critical views of a particular work or body of works. Sometimes much is to be gain" rel="nofollow">ined from an examin" rel="nofollow">ination of differin" rel="nofollow">ing critical opin" rel="nofollow">inions on topics. Such a study would attempt to determin" rel="nofollow">ine the critical opin" rel="nofollow">inion and taste to which a work did or did not appeal, and it might also aim at conclusions about whether the work was in" rel="nofollow">in the advance or rear guard of its time.
4. The in" rel="nofollow">influence of an idea, author, philosophy, political situation, or artistic movement on specific works of an author or authors.
5. The origin" rel="nofollow">in of a particular work or type of work. Such an essay might examin" rel="nofollow">ine an author’s biography to discover the germin" rel="nofollow">ination and development of a work.