Week 5 Part 1,2 - Skill Building Activity

Week 5 Skill Building Activity

This week’s skill building activity has two main components. First, you’ll review your performance and grade feedback on a paper submitted earlier in the quarter. Then, you’ll develop a topic and thesis statement for your final research paper (due in Week 7).

Part I: Review and Revise (I WILL DO THIS SECTION) Look over either one of the Response Papers you’ve submitted so far in the course. Review your work and the professor's grade feedback (as well as any tutoring feedback you may have received from tutors), then discuss the following in paragraph form:

1. What did you do well? What aspect or aspects of your paper, in your opinion, were strongest?

2. What doesn’t work in your paper, and needs improvement? Or what could you improve on further-- even if this aspect was mostly adequate in your earlier paper?

3. Have you used the free tutoring service linked in online courses? If so, what was your experience like? If not, why not?

Part II: Topic and thesis Keeping what you’ve learned in the above exercise in mind, start to brainstorm a topic for the final research paper. Make sure to review the guidelines for the final research paper as well as the “ Topic Development” Online Learning Resource from this week.

1. First, base your choice of texts on the following:

· A topic focusing on at least 2 texts (but no more than 3) by different authors . All of the chosen texts must come from class-assigned literature unless given prior approval by the instructor. 

· A ROSE FOR EMILY: https://archive.org/stream/ARoseForEmily1930/A_Rose_for_Emily_djvu.txt

· Miss Brill: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1429/1429-h/1429-h.htm#chap09

· A topic focusing on at least 2 texts (but no more than 3) by the same author.  All of the chosen texts must come from class-assigned literature unless given prior approval by the instructor.

· (HANDS, ADVENTURE, MOTHER: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/416/416-h/416-h.htm#chap16)

2. Then, using the method outlined in the “ Topic Development” document in this week's Online Learning Resources, show what you plan to write about. Make sure to include:

· Topic and Literary Theory (the author[s] and works you plan on writing about, and the theory you plan to apply to the literature you've chosen)

· Research Question (the basic question that interests you about this topic, or the question your thesis intends to answer or address)

· Working Thesis Statement (the one-sentence, declarative statement that announces the hypothesis or purpose of your eventual research paper. Another way to think about it is like the proposed answer to your research question)

· Works Cited entries (supply the works cited entries for the literary works you've chosen to write about. These should correspond to the linked versions of the texts in class)