Write a minimum of eight (8) pages, but no more than twelve (12) pages literary analysis, applying any choice of critical lens to some aspect of mythology

Write a minimum of eight (8) pages, but no more than twelve (12) pages literary analysis, applying any choice of critical lens to some aspect of mythology

LIT 139 Research Essay Assignment
(150 pts. towards the final grade)

Instructions, Audience, and Purpose

Write a minimum of eight (8) pages, but no more than twelve (12) pages literary analysis, applying any choice of critical lens to some aspect of mythology.  It is preferred students will choose some aspect of mythology not covered in class.  The student should include a minimum of three (3) outside, researched sources in the paper to support the student’s ideas.  These three sources do not include the actual mythological subject or text being used (in other words, Bulfinch or Beowulf or some urban legend would not be considered a researched source; instead, it would be the primary source upon which the analysis is focused).

Your purpose is to illuminate the chosen aspect of mythology, help a college-level reader get more out it, and convince such a reader that your analysis of the subject in question is valid.  The purpose of the assignment itself is to give you practice analyzing WHAT a particular subject means, HOW it is significant to an understanding of mythology, and WHY an audience should learn about it. You should also write with an audience of college instructors in mind.

Follow these steps:

  1. After selecting the mythological subject you’d like to use, start looking at primary sources on that subject.  For example, if you were to choose “Grendel,” you might start by looking at Beowulf or the novel, Grendel, which was written by John Gardner.
  2. Analyze the work you’ve chosen with that question in mind.
  3. Answer the question, and from that answer formulate a thesis.
  4. Find outside critical research on, in this case, the character of the Grendel, to support the points you will be making.  (Three sources)

Provide an especially focused INTRODUCTION which clearly states your thesis, and a similarly focused CONCLUSION which reaffirms that idea.  I will post an outline later in the semester.

You will need to:

  1. Research what other critics have said about the subject.
  2. Write the question you are answering, maybe as the attention-getter opening of the paper.
  3. Develop your argument fully, with focused paragraphs and good supporting evidence (reasons, examples, details, quotations, paraphrases) for your claims.
  4. Acknowledge and refute counter-views. (This might be a good place to discuss other critic’s views a bit.)
  5. Keep your audience clearly in mind.
  6. Write engagingly. Write with imagination, insight, and, more than anything, clarity.
  7. Document any sources using MLA format.
  8. Format your manuscript according to MLA guidelines.
  9. Avoid all types of plagiarism.
  10. Carefully edit and proofread your work for lapses in clarity, stylistic problems, and mechanical errors. Sources must be properly credited using MLA format.
  11. Include any drafts with instructor comments, and staple all hardcopy materials.

 This paper is due no later than 11:59 p.m. on Wed., May 3rd.

Good Luck!

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