George Orwell’s the Animal Farm in context of the Soviet Communist Party
Prompt:
Goals:
The purpose of the research paper is to develop research techniques using scholarly print and electronic sources, to practice analysis and synthesis of large amounts of data, to practice writing skills, to practice techniques of literary criticism, and to develop expertise on one or two literary texts.
Topic:
For your tem paper, you may analyze any aspects (theme, character, plot, setting, literary techniques, imagery, historical context, etc) of a work that we are reading this semester. You should discuss your topic with your instructor once you finalize it.
Suggestion: Think of a research question for this assignment.
For example:
Why did Virginia in Second-hand man insists on the purity of love? What are the qualities of an effective mentor/teacher? Why do women sometimes participate in the oppression of other women? Why is John a good husband in The Yellow Wallpaper?
Form: The paper should be typed, double-spaced, and 5 pages in length.
Use Times New Roman font in 12 point type.
The paper should use parenthetic documentation and present an alphabetical list of Works
Cited as outlined in Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual.
Content: The paper should be primarily your original analysis of the literary work, presenting a clear thesis, a coherent argument, and appropriate textual evidence.
To demonstrate your ability to find and use scholarly books and journals, you should also include at least 2 sources*.
Normally your sources should be relatively recent, no older than you are, unless there is a valid reason for using a specific older source.
At least 3 of them should be articles in scholarly journals. The most efficient ways to find these sources are to use the online MLA Bibliography and to consult the bibliography and notes in a good scholarly source that was published in the last year or two.
You may use one or two Internet sources, so long as they are scholarly. If you have trouble finding appropriate, both the reference librarian and I will be glad to help you.
