Description
Research Topic Proposal - Instructions
For your Literary Analysis Research Essay in this course, you are seeking to investigate a topic related to specific course texts, and analyze that topic to present a coherent argument about those very texts, leading to a unique idea or interpretation.
In order to get started with that, you need to develop your critical question. This will help you hone in on texts and ideas you want to address. It will also allow me to provide you with feedback on how to best proceed.
In your research paper topic submission, you will provide a research question, a working thesis, and a basic outline. You should also include why you want to write on the topic you’ve chosen.
Requirements:
Topic
- You must provide the author’s name and title of the work that you will be analyzing in your research paper.
- You may choose one of the following works as your topic:
- Gilgamesh
- The Iliad
- The Ramayana of Valmiki
- The Aeneid
- The Song of Roland
- Dante's Inferno
- Lysistrata
- Machiavelli's The Prince
Quality of Thesis
- Your thesis must be clear and arguable.
- When you write your thesis in your paper, you should avoid using phrases like “I think” and “I believe”; however, in the drafting phase, these phrases may help you organize your ideas.
- Thesis: All papers must have a clearly worded thesis that states exactly what your paper intends to prove
- As you research, your ideas may change; therefore, you may modify your thesis as you work on the paper.
Structure
- you should submit your (1) Research Question, (2) Working Thesis, and a (3) Basic Outline of your final paper.
- Research Question: The development of the research question will help you find and angle or focus. However, as a rule of thumb, just think what you want to know about the topic, why it is important? What ideas or areas do you want to explore? Put that in the form of a question.
- Intro Material: what will you have to address in the introduction. Remember, it is customary to conclude the intro paragraph with your thesis.
- Supporting Idea #1: Include the points you will have to prove or the evidence you will have to provide in order to support the thesis of your paper.
- Supporting Idea #2: Include the points you will have to prove or the evidence you will have to provide in order to support the thesis of your paper.
- Supporting Idea, Etc.
- Conclusion
Explanation & Answer
Attached. Please let me know if you have any questions or need revisions.
Basic outline
Types of Punishment in Dante’s Inferno
1. Research Question: what types of punishment is administered in Dante’s Inferno
2. Thesis: In Dante’s Infeno, there are two types of punishment administered depending on the
type and number of sins the souls commited during their life on earth, less painful
punishment was for inflicting mental torture and physical tortutrous pain for souls that made
more severe sins....
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