Job Description:

Students are required to write a thesis-driven Research Paper of 6-8
pages, plus a works cited page, following MLA documentation
guidelines.

Please pick two to four of the literary works assigned in this class
and apply a critical approach* discussed in our textbook (Chapter 52
the digital version of the textbook for the various approaches.)

*(Please avoid formalism, reader response, and biographical criticism
for the research paper.)

Students are welcome to expand Essay One, Two, or Three into a
research paper; or you can start fresh with new text/s and/or a
different literary approach.

Due to the length of the paper, it is strongly recommended that
students use several short stories or a collection of poems as their
primary sources.

You must use a minimum 3 secondary scholarly** sources accessed
through LAMC databases such as Ebscohost or AcademicFile One.***
Additional credible outside sources can used, as well. (Primary
sources will come from the textbook.)"

https://myenglishta.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/how-to-write-a-research-paper-using-literary-criticism/

http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm#marx

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/12/