The draft of your research paper is still due on the 20th, as per the syllabus. However, I have shortened the assignment to 4-5 pages. Here are the guidelines for what I want you to include in the draft (not necessarily in this order). I am now treating the draft as an extended proposal which includes evidence of collection and examination of research materials.
Research Paper Draft—5 pages due Thurs, Nov 20th
1. Proposal of your topic:
a. What is the subject of your paper?
b. In your thinking about this subject you realized that it raises a interesting problem, question, or network of relations between one or more other subjects.
c. So, what is the problem and how are you are addressing it?
2. What are the specific objects are that you will be using? Briefly review them and explain how they relate to your topic
a. Literary texts (written sources)
b. Artworks
3. What is the conclusion you think you might arrive at? What is your working hypothesis about what you will discover in your research? What are some potential challenges to this hypothesis? How do you think your hypothesis might change? What are some of the most difficult/sticky areas of your hypothesis, or the likeliest weak link? How do you propose to find more information that will help you think through these points of instability in your hypothesis?
For more pointers I suggest you browse Unit 3 of Writing Analytically. In particular, there are 9 brief guidelines listed on p 238 that are very general but good reminders to follow as you review and integrate sources into your writing.
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