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THE
LITERARY RESEARCH ESSAY
Objectives:
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Using writing to explore aspects of
Romanticism, clarify ideas, and demonstrate both your understanding
of and ability to recognize romanticism in a new setting.
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Compiling information from secondary
sources (film script, literature text, and one other source such as a
literature criticism text, an encyclopedia, or an internet source)
using available technology.
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Organizing notes from multiple sources
in useful and informing ways.
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Employing precise language to
communicate ideas clearly and concisely.
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Using standard English to meet demands
of occasion, audience, and task.
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Writing in a style appropriate to
audience and purpose.
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Compiling written ideas and
representations into a research essay.
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Showing proficiency in use of language,
mechanics, spelling, capitalization, etc.
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Using the correct MLA format for
internal citations, and Works Cited page.
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Expectations:
Daily Grades
for on task behavior in the library/classroom/toga lab during research
process
Major Grades
for the final product and process parts
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Getting Started
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Read the research paper with Miss
Carnie over mountain lions.
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Read the intro to Romanticism in Elements of Literature (pp.
136-150)
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Review what makes a good thesis
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Watch the movie :)
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Choose one of the following movies
to write your research paper about.
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Analyze the movie you choose for at least three aspects of Romanticism (one
for each body paragraph) contained within the script.
Aspects of Romanticism:
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Following
your passion or emotion instead of logic or revelation
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Searching for
beauty or truth, the quest |
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The value and
importance of the common, ordinary man as opposed to the
high-born
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Characteristics of
the American Romantic hero |
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The supernatural
or occult |
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The distant in time or culture |
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An emerging nationalism |
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The grotesque, violent, strange, or
exotic |
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The “inner landscape” of a character |
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Imagination or intuition
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Rejection of mechanization, greed,
logic, European or Enlightenment values |
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Love, appreciation of nature itself
or importance of
nature in a setting |
8. Use a map or list or
other concept map to organize how
three of these characteristics, the ones you could best prove,
show up in the movie
you chose.
9. Turn in
your thesis you plan to use. Get it approved.
11. Write a five paragraph (or
more) essay, using the organizational patterns we have discussed in
class.
Guidelines for organizing your essay:
1. Introduction in which you name the
author and the novel and the director’s film adaptation using either
an anecdote, a quote, a startling statistic, dialogue, the history, or
a question and gradually leading to a carefully worded thesis that
romanticism is an essential component in the movie.
2. Body paragraphs discussing three aspects
of romanticism you can explain well. Write a clear topic
sentence for each paragraph showing which aspect that paragraph will be
about. Cite proof, either as quotes or paraphrases, that prove
your thesis. You should plan to use at least four effective
interesting quotes [two from the script, one
from the literature text, and one from another academic source] to
prove your position. Your body paragraphs should make it completely
clear to the reader that you understand all about the characteristics
of the romantic hero or rejection of European values, etc. as applied
to the movie as well as why the romantics liked that particular
aspect so much.
3. A conclusion that restates the thesis
and puts the ideas of romanticism in perspective to the general
aspects of life or literature or movies today.
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ABSOLUTE
REQUIREMENTS: |
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YOU MUST DO YOUR OWN WORK. USING
QUOTES OR IDEAS OR PARAPHRASING WITHOUT CITATION IS PLAGIARISM
AND WILL RESULT IN A ZERO AND A REFERRAL. |
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YOU MUST INCLUDE INTERNAL CITATIONS
EVERY TIME YOU QUOTE OR PARAPHRASE.
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YOU MUST INCLUDE A TYPED WORKS CITED
PAGE IN MLA FORMAT. |
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YOU MUST MAKE A ZEROX OF THE PAGES YOU
CITE IN YOUR PAPER. (Plan to bring change to make copies.)
YOU MUST HIGHLIGHT THE QUOTE YOU ARE USING OR CHANGING AND ATTACH
THESE COPIES TO YOUR FINAL DRAFT, WHICH YOU WILL TURN IN TO ME.
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YOU MUST TURN IN NOTES, CHARTS, DRAFTS
AS PART OF YOUR PROCESS. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO WRITE A FINAL DRAFT
THAT IS PERFECT. I WANT TO SEE THE PROCESS.
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YOU MUST TURN IN A TYPED FINAL DRAFT IN
MLA FORMAT. |
Due Dates:
Friday April 2 (A) Monday April 5 (B) —Due at start
of class:
a.
Final typed research essay
b. Final typed Works Cited
c.
Essay rough draft, (intro, body, and
conclusion) with citations highlighted and labeled
d. Zeroxes
with quotes highlighted and labeled.
For more tips
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Easy!!
One step at a time.. 
