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Topic:  Choose any author, playwright or poet, living or dead, who you are familiar with, that you discover in your textbook, or that you have always wanted to know more about.  Helpful Hint:  Get my verbal approval before continuing with your topic proposal. 

Topic Approval:  Submit a question about the author, his/her work or style that intrigues you or that you find interesting.  If you cannot explain why you find the question intriguing or interesting, or if you know the answer, then you need to find another question or perhaps another subject.  This assignment is not a summary of the author’s life.  Possible topics might include examination of the author’s style and/or genre as well as the innovations, techniques, or characteristics of his/her writing.

Discussion Board-Topic Proposals Thursday, 9/16/21 by 10 pm (For more details, see Module 4)

Your final topic proposal should include the following:

1. Your working title
2. The work(s) you will examine
3. Your provisional thesis
4. An outline of the approach and argument that you think you will use in your paper.

The Research Paper:  Your paper should focus on the approved author of your choice.  You may focus the paper on the author’s work, structures, themes, style, or another approved element. (See Module 12 for more detail)

The paper should contain four sections:

• You author’s biography and background;
• A summary of your author’s style and significant techniques;
• A discussion of at least one major work by your author;
• A summary of your author’s contributions to literary history.

In addition to containing an astute and interesting new insight about your author’s work, your paper must comply with the current edition of the MLA Style Manual.  You are responsible for proofreading your paper for content, documentation, and grammar.

Your final paper should be submitted on the due date of THURSDAY, 11/18/21 by 10 pm including the following items:

1. 5-9 page text (1250-1700 words)
2. Works Cited page

Works Cited Page:  For your research paper, you should compile a Works Cited Page of at least 10 primary and secondary sources.  4-5 of these should be usable for your final copy. Your complete Discussion Board-Works Cited Page is due to the Discussion Board on Tuesday, 10/12/21 by 10 pm. (See Lesson 8 for more detail.) 

 You are required use the TCC databases to compile your Works Cited page. .Com and .Net websites ARE NOT VALID academic sources and CANNOT be used as sources. Again, your sources must come from the TCC Databases and be scholarly, academic sources. You are NOT allowed to use Wikipedia, Sparknotes, etc.  These websites are not academic sources.  

 Final Grade:  The Research Paper will count 30% of your final course grade.

*Your final draft of this paper should be typed, double-spaced in font no larger than 12 point.  Your paper should include a heading that includes your name, class, time and title. Follow standard MLA formatting conventions and adhere to formal academic standards for language (no first or second person).