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You will have the option of researching either Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums," or The Red Pony, or Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

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You will have the option of researching either Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums," or The Red Pony, or Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. The objective of your research is to read about and get familiar with what scholars and critics are saying about the text you are researching. What arguments are being made? What insights are the scholars and critics having about this text and its levels of meaning and significance? This kind of research might be different from what you have done in the past in that you are not coming to the research with the objective of finding support for a preconceived idea, position, argument, or thesis. You are approaching the research from a position of question and curiosity: What are the scholars and critics saying about this text?

Your research will utilize the Mission College library catalogue and databases. The expectation in English 1B is that we are familiar with the library and how to use our databases and Search catalogue. However, we will have a reminder video posted on our Week Eight page.

You will then compose an essay that enters into some aspect of this conversation. You can agree with what scholars and critics are saying. You can disagree. You can add and contribute to what is being said and argued about the text. Whichever approach you take, your ideas will always be supported with examples from the text itself. So your essay will be a synthesis of what the critics and scholars are saying and your own personal literary analysis.

You are welcome to use ideas from Essay #2 as something to build on; however, you cannot take this essay and go looking for critical support for your ideas. This you have done before and will not provide you with the critical thinking we are looking for.

Requirements

• MLA format: 12 point Times New Roman font, double spaced, name, instructor, course, date in left hand corner.
• Use of fundamentals such as introduction, focused body paragraphs, transitions, and conclusion.
• Thesis announcing what your essay will be showing/arguing about the text on which you are focusing.
• Integration of at least 2 sources. One source must be a scholarly article from an academic journal, and the other is of your choice, so long as it is credible and reliable. These two sources will be selected from your research. The key word here is select. This means that you will be reading a series of articles and making a choice which ones you want to use, which ones you will enter into a conversation with. If you don't select and instead just find two articles, it will be hard to build an essay around such articles.
• MLA format for your in-text citations and work cited page.
• Writing that is free from consistent and distracting errors in grammar and mechanics.
• Developmental guidelines: 5-5.5 pages.