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Paper Guidelines
Your Topic should begin as a question that is
· Not easily or quickly answered by consulting a reference book
· That you are very curious about because it interests you or causes you to think more deeply or differently about the text
Begin the process of developing a topic by reading Constructing a Topic on this web site. The rubric there gives you concrete methods for reading and writing that will get you started.
Your Paper must
· Propose an answer to the Topic question in the form of a hypothesis or claim that is supported by textual evidence from the primary source[s].
· Present a logically organized argument with the claim at its core.
· Must cite secondary sources when used and if consulted, in appropriate MLA form; even if no secondary sources are used or consulted, a footnote documenting which edition of the text[s] used should accompany its first reference.
· Must use reputable sources from peer-reviewed journals. Only one may be from a website other than the Norton site. If only one secondary source is used, it must be from a book or scholarly journal
I will evaluate your paper on
· The soundness of your claim: it is debatable, interesting, and not easily answered by consulting a reference book.
· The soundness of your argument; it is sufficiently supported by quotes from the text and logically organized.
· The soundness of its mechanics: it is coherent [cues to the reader between ideas allow him/her to follow your logic effortlessly], formatted using current MLA style, is grammatically clean and free of editing errors.
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