11Th CP Research Paper

11CP Research Paper: Ms. Stoner 1

Name: ______

Period: ______

Due Dates Are As Follows:

Assignment # Assignment Title Assignment Value Due Date

Assignment #1 / Author Choice / 30
Assignment #2 / Novel Write-up / 40
Assignment #3 / Gathering Information / 30
Assignment #4 / Evidence In Text / 30
Assignment #5 / Thesis Statement / 10
Assignment #6 / Outline / 40
Assignment #7 / Rough Draft / 50
FINAL DRAFT / FINAL DRAFT / 200

11th CP Research Paper

Important Notice:This assignment is done step-by-step with each step having a point value. There will be 3 rough drafts, each worth 30 points. The final draft is worth 200 points. Failure to keep up with the steps overall research process could result in a failing grade for the second/third marking period.

Assignment Overview

Directions: Carefully read and follow each step below. Constructing a research

paper is a step by step process. It is important that you complete

each step to the best of your ability and on time.

Stoner 1

List of Authors

Middle Ages

*Chaucer, Geoffrey

*More, Sir Thomas

Renaissance

Bacon, Francis

Donne, John

Herbert, George

Herrick, Robert

Johnson, Ben

Marlowe, Christopher

Marvell, Andrew

Raleigh, Sir Walter

*Shakespeare, William

Spenser, Edmund

Sydney, Sir Philip

Wyatt, Sir Thomas

Restoration and the 18th Century

Bunyan, John

Defoe, Daniel

Dryden, John

Fielding, Henry

Gray, Thomas

Milton, John

Richardson, Samuel

*Swift, Jonathan

Lord Rochester

Romantic Period

*Austen, Jane

Burns, Robert

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Gordon, George

Lord Byron

*Keats, John

Scott, Walter

*Shelly, Mary

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

*Stoker, Bram

VictorianPeriod

*Barrie, J M

*Baum, L. Frank

*Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Browning, Robert

*Carroll, Lewis

Conrad, Joseph

Dickens, Charles

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Forester, C.S.

Hardy, Thomas

Housman, A. E.

Kipling, Rudyard

Moore, George

Rossetti, Christina

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

*Wilde, Oscar

20th Century

Adams, Douglas

Amis, Kinsley

Aldington, Richard

Auden, W.H.

Bowen, Elizabeth

*Burgess, Anothony

Carter, Angela

*Du Maurier, Daphne

Durrel, Lawrence

*Eliot, T.S.

*Forster, E.M.

*Fleming, Ian

Francis, Dick

Greene, Graham

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Lawrence, D.H.

Lessing, Dorris

*Lewis, C.S.

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

Shaw, Bernard

*Thomas, Dylan

*Tolkien, J.R.R.

*Wells, H G

*Woolf, Virginia

Yeats, William Butler

British Provinces

Achebe, Chinua

*Atwood Margaret

Beckett, Samuel

Coetzee, J M

Gordimer, Nadine

Heyer, Georgette

*Mansfield, Katharine

Ondaatje, Michael

Rushdie, Salman

Walcott, Derek

Stoner 1

Assignment #1 – Total Score: _____ / 30

First Choice: ______

(author’s name)

1a.) What time period did your author write in?

______

1b.) What events were going on during this time period that may have influenced

your author?

______

2.) Describe the family background of your author. (wealthy, siblings, schooling,…)

______

3.) What profession(s) did your author have?

______

4.) Describe the love life of your author. (married, affairs, alone,…)

______

5.) What book by your author do you plan on reading? Why?

______

Second Choice: ______

(author’s name)

1a.) What time period did your author write in?

______

1b.) What events were going on during this time period that may have influenced

your author?

______

2.) Describe the family background of your author. (wealthy, siblings, schooling,…)

______

3.) What profession(s) did your author have?

______

4.) Describe the love life of your author. (married, affairs, alone,…)

______

5.) What book by your author do you plan on reading? Why?

______

Third Choice: ______

(author’s name)

1a.) What time period did your author write in?

______

1b.) What events were going on during this time period that may have influenced

your author?

______

2.) Describe the family background of your author. (wealthy, siblings, schooling,…)

______

3.) What profession(s) did your author have?

______

4.) Describe the love life of your author. (married, affairs, alone,…)

______

5.) What book by your author do you plan on reading? Why?

______

How to do this:

-you want to open a Word Document (just one, DO NOT do this in multiple documents or you will not be able to upload the entire work).

-make sure you have the MLA heading, header and adhere to MLA format.

-it is probably best to do this in chart form, expect for the 1-page summary. See below for example:

Character Chart Summary Themes and Quotes

Assignment #3: Gathering Research ____/30

FIRST OUTSIDE SOURCE

(Fill in all areas that pertain to your source. Skip areas that are not relevant to your source. This information will help you to easily construct a works cited page.)

TITLE: ______

______

AUTHOR OR EDITOR(S): ______

______

PLACE OF PUBLICATION: ______

(City and state if necessary)

PUBLISHER: ______

______

VOLUME: ______

EDITION: ______

ARTICLE TITLE: ______

______

WEBSITE: ______

URL: ______

(Need carets before and behind < >)

PAGES USED: ______

______

OTHER (MAKE NOTE OF THE ISBN NUMBER HERE):

FIRST OUTSIDE SOURCE RESEARCH

(Complete the chart below with evidence you have collected from your first source. You must have 10 Facts: fill out all 10 boxes!)

EVIDENCE FROM SOURCE:
(Use quotes when taking information word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER EVIDENCE IS LOCATED

SECOND OUTSIDE SOURCE

(Fill in all areas that pertain to your source. Skip areas that are not relevant to your source. This information will help you to easily construct a works cited page.)

TITLE: ______

______

AUTHOR OR EDITOR(S): ______

______

PLACE OF PUBLICATION: ______

______

PUBLISHER: ______

______

VOLUME: ______

EDITION: ______

ARTICLE TITLE: ______

______

WEBSITE: ______

URL: ______

(Need carets before and behind < >)

PAGES USED: ______

______

OTHER:

SECOND OUTSIDE SOURCE RESEARCH

(Complete the chart below with evidence you have collected from your second source. You must have 10 Facts: fill out all 10 boxes!)

EVIDENCE FROM SOURCE:
(Use quotes when taking information word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER EVIDENCE IS LOCATED

THIRD OUTSIDE SOURCE

(Fill in all areas that pertain to your source. Skip areas that are not relevant to your source. This information will help you to easily construct a works cited page.)

TITLE: ______

______

AUTHOR OR EDITOR(S): ______

______

PLACE OF PUBLICATION: ______

______

PUBLISHER: ______

______

VOLUME: ______

EDITION: ______

ARTICLE TITLE: ______

______

WEBSITE: ______

URL: ______

(Need carets before and behind < >)

PAGES USED: ______

______

OTHER:

THIRD OUTSIDE SOURCE RESEARCH

(Complete the chart below with evidence you have collected from your third source. You must have 10 Facts: fill out all 10 boxes!)

EVIDENCE FROM SOURCE:
(Use quotes when taking information word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER EVIDENCE IS LOCATED

ASSIGNMENT #4: EVIDENCE OF INFLUENCES IN THE TEXT(S)

ASSIGNMENT #4: TEXTUAL EVIDENCE OF INFLUENCES

(Complete the following using your author’s text(s))

FIRST INFLUENCE: George Orwell was influenced by the outcome of the Russian Revolution, a major event that occurred during his life.

TEXTUAL EVIDENCE (Use quotes when citing word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER(S) INFORMATION IS LOCATED
-“5 Year Plan”, Snowball initiates this on the farm because he represents Trotsky who historically devised this idea.
-“Animalism”, all animals are equal. This concept is modeled after “Communism”, all men are equal
-Napoleon executes objectors and lies saying they are traitors, just like Joseph Stalin executed individuals on false claims of treason
-Napoleon abuses the ideas of animalism by changing the laws to benefit him and becomes a dictator. This is based on Stalin’s abuse of communism.
-Napoleon institutes “spontaneous demonstrations” these represent forced patriotic demonstrations in post-revolutionary Soviet Union.
- “Four legs good, two legs bad was inscribed on the end wall of the barn,
above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters.”
Quotation / 32-34
5
40-45
80-90
100
51

ASSIGNMENT #4: TEXTUAL EVIDENCE OF INFLUENCES –

TOTAL POINTS: _____ / 30

(Complete the following using your author’s text(s))

FIRST INFLUENCE: ______

______

TEXTUAL EVIDENCE (Use quotes when citing word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER(S) INFORMATION IS LOCATED

SECOND INFLUENCE: ______

______

TEXTUAL EVIDENCE (Use quotes when citing word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER(S) INFORMATION IS LOCATED

THIRD INFLUENCE: ______

______

TEXTUAL EVIDENCE (Use quotes when citing word for word.) / PAGE NUMBER(S) INFORMATION IS LOCATED

(Using the above example as a model, record your thesis statement on the next page to complete Assignment #5)

ASSIGNMENT #5: CONSTRUCT YOUR THESIS STATEMENT

TOTAL POINTS: _____ / 10

(Record your thesis statement in the space provided below)

THESIS STATEMENT: ______

______

ASSIGNMENT #6: CONSTRUCT AN OUTLINE ___/50

(Follow the model outline on the next page in order to create your typed outline.)

Name

Ms. Stoner

English 065

Due Date

Title (centered DO NOTunderline, bold, or italicize)

Introduction (Be sure to put the heading of each major section)

I. Introduce your Author (basic bio)

A. Attention Getting Device (Use a question, quote, statistic, or vivid description that isrelated to your thesis in order to grab the reader’s attentionand spark interest at the start of your paper.)

B. Transitional Statement (This is the sentence or sentences that specifically relate your Attention Getting Device to your thesis. Often it is the answer to a question you have posed or a brief explanation of background information)

C. Thesis Statement (What you will prove and the order in which you will prove it.)

Body

II. First Influence (You should devise a topic sentence that indicates each influence and

relates it directly back to the thesis statement)

A. First Example

1. Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

a. Further details

b.Further details

c.Further details

2.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

(You may have additional numbers depending on the amount of research you have for this main point. EVERY CAPTIAL LETTER (in the BODY ) WILL BE A PARAGRAPH IN YOUR PAPER THAT EXPLAINS ONE OF THE INFLUENCES.)

B. Second Example

1.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

2.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

(You will continue with this format until all evidence related to your First Influence has been appropriately organized: For example, you may have a C and/or D, etc….)

III.Second Influence (You should devise a topic sentence that indicates each influence and relates it directly back to the thesis statement)

A. First Example

1.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

a. Further details

b.Further details

2.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

B.Second Example

1.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

2.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

(You will continue with this format until all evidence related to your First Influence has been appropriately organized.)

VI. Third Influence (You should devise a topic sentence that indicates each influence and

relates it directly back to the thesis statement)

A. First Example

1.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

a. Further details

b.Further details

2.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

B. Second Example

1.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

2.Supporting evidence / explanation of facts

(You will continue with this format until all evidence related to your First Influence has been appropriately organized.)

Conclusion

Wrap up author’s influences and work(s)
Transitional Sentence (Moves from the body of your paper and signals close)

B.Re-phrased Thesis (Reword your thesis to summarize the main points of yourpaper; should not be an exact replica of the thesis in introduction)

C.Clincher (Use a quote, shocking statistic, or vivid description to create an impact statement that is related to your thesis/AGD and leaves the reader thinking about yourtopic.)

(BE SURE TO ASK FOR HELP IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF THE FORMAT BEFORE THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE)

Name

Teacher

Course #

Date (inverted, i.e. 7 January 2010)

George Orwell’s Attack on Totalitarian Governments

Introduction

I.During the reign of Joseph Stalin, thousands if not millions of war criminals were unjustly executed under the false accusations of treason.

A.Stalin’s horrifying misuse of power alarmed the world.

Orwell was a successful writer in the 1940’s.
Although this was many years after the Russian Revolution, he felt the injustices of the Soviet totalitarian government needed to be told to prevent future dictatorships.

B.Ultimately, George Orwell was a democratic socialist that drew from his time spent serving in the Spanish Civil War, views on totalitarian government and retirement on a farm to construct a warning against dictatorships in the form of the political satire, Animal Farm.

Body

II.Orwell’s time in the Spanish Civil War was the first major influence for Animal Farm.

Orwell witnessed many injustices in the Spanish Civil War.
He left a successful career as a magazine writer to enlist in the Spanish Civil War.
He enlisted because he believed the Civil War would bring down an unjust dictatorship and replace it with a society based on equality.
Orwell quickly realized that power corrupts good intentions, and that the new ruler was worse than the dictator they revolted against.
Orwell received an almost fatal injury fighting for this empty cause.
He was shot in the neck.
This near death experience caused him to reevaluate his views and change his political beliefs.
The overall result of his service in war was that he became a democratic socialist.

ASSIGNMENT #7: Rough Draft ____/50

(After completing your rough draft, you will have a class period to work on peer and self-editing. At the conclusion of this day, you will be responsible for 3 peer edit sheets and 1 self-edit sheet that are to be turned in with your rough draft.)

Rough Draft Peer Evaluation

Directions: 1.) Evaluate your partner’s rough draft by completing the checklist.

2.) Indicate yes or no for each item

3.) Next to each element include either:

-a suggestion for improvement

-questions asking the writer to clarify their ideas

-comments that indicate details are missing

-a specific statement of positive reinforcement

Did the writer… / Yes / No / Comments
Devise a creative title?
Introduction
Create a vivid & relevant AGD that sparks the reader’s interest?
Use transitional statements logically linking the AGD to the thesis?
Create a thesis statement that clearly states the topic and three main points?
Body
Each paragraph uses a well-written topic sentence to connect ideas to a main point in order to prove the thesis?
Effective transitions are used to connect paragraphs to the thesis and ideas within paragraphs (NO So, And,…)
The writer included their own insights (analysis of information)
NO PLAGAIRISM
Included cited textual evidence to prove thesis and support insights CITED QUOTES AND RESEARCH FROM OUTSIDE SOURCES
Conclusion
Included transition and rephrased the thesis
Clincher (refers to AGD)
Mechanics
Remains in the same tense
Does not use personal pronouns
(I, me, my, you, your, we, us)
Correct spelling and grammar
Evaluation
What grade would you give this paper (Why?)

ASSIGNMENT #8: FINAL DRAFT CHECKLIST

1. YOU HAVE WRITTEN YOUR FINAL DRAFT, WHICH CONTAINS

THE APPROPRIATE HEADING, TITLE AND PAGE # MARKERS

(REFER TO OUTLINE HEADING FOR AN EXAMPLE)

2. YOU HAVE INCLUDED INTERNAL CITATIONS (AT LEAST ONE

PER PARAGRAPH) IN YOUR FINAL DRAFT

3. YOUR INTERNAL CITATIONS FOLLOW THE CORRECT FORMAT

4. YOU HAVE PROOF READ YOUR FINAL DRAFT TO BE SURE

THAT IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY PERSONAL PRONOUNS,

INEFFECTIVE TRANSITONS, SPELLING ERRORS, OR

GRAMATICAL ERRORS.

5. YOU HAVE INCLUDED A WORKS CITED PAGE THAT

ACCURATELY CITES YOUR THREE OUTSIDE SOURCES AND

THE TEXT THAT YOU READ.

(IF AT ANY TIME YOU ARE UNSURE OF HOW TO CITE OR FORMAT SOMETHING BE SURE TO ASK FOR HELP)

USE THE FOLLOWING TIPS AND EXAMPLES TO AID IN YOUR CREATION OF A WELL WRITTEN RESEARCH PAPER

Transitions

Type of Transition / Examples
Additional Information / and, furthermore, moreover, in addition,
Expected Information / of course, naturally, as one (may) know, obviously
Unexpected Information / amazingly, surprisingly
Intensified Information / in fact, as a matter of fact
Restatements / in other words, that is, in short
Examples / for example, for instance, to illustrate, such as, including, include
Consequences / therefore, as a result, consequently, (in) consequence, as consequence, it follows that
Causes / because (of), due to, as a result (of), on account of, thanks to
Reversed Information / however, but, although, (even) though, nevertheless, nonetheless
Order / first, second (etc…), then, next, last, finally
Conclusion / therefore, ultimately, overall

Common Comma Rules

Commas are used in sentences on paper the same way that pauses are used in speech—to clarify and convey meaning. Commas often fall in a sentence where there is a natural pause. Reading a sentence aloud can be an effective way to determine these pauses.

There are many more specific rules to follow as well. Here is a list of common rules:

1.Put commas after introductory elements coming before the main sentence.

Put commas after introductory adverb clauses. These clauses begin with words like while, when, but, although, and like, among others.

-When I ride my bike, I never fall down.

-Although the vote was a close one, Kennedy beat Nixon.

Put commas after introductory –ing phrases.

-Foaming and splashing, the water crashed against the rocks.

-Running too fast, I slipped on the ice.

Put commas after introductory prepositional phrases.

-Without further ado, here is the Heisman Award winner.