An important note about final paper ethics and protocol:
DO use the research librarian’s help, the Writing Center, Special Collections, peers, and all of the other resources available to you on campus.
Make sure you CITE, in your ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, all the people and resources that have helped you with this paper, as you do your tutorial groups. It should look something like: “This paper has benefitted from the feedback of…”
No one should ever make comments on how to rewrite full sentences or tell you what to write or how to develop your thoughts. However, they can make suggestions for what needs to be more fully addressed and point out spots where your thinking needs to be strengthened.
You ARE allowed to use ideas you have started developing in your other papers and projects. You ARE NOT allowed to import full sentences. If you have written about a subject before, reference that in your paper.
REQUIREMENTS:
7 full pages in 12-point, Times New Roman font with 1” margins
Items due: 1) cover letter in business format 2) final paper
You will be required to have 6 sources total — your tutor (primary text) and 5 additional/critical/historical sources. 1 secondary source can be from the class.
Suggestions for sources (though most importantly you will need to use what your paper requires you to prove your thesis):
have at least 1 historical source to situate your argument.
Include at least two peer-reviewed journal articles
Include 1 academic book chapter
Another piece of art, poetry, performance from the time can help to expand the creativity of your analysis, but it is not required.
This is an argument-driven, analytic essay that requires a strong thesis statement grounded in at least one text
Quotes and evidence from the text to back up your claims
Close-reading and analysis of your evidence
You must use, as your primary focus of analysis, one of the texts from the class
This paper requires an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS section of all the people who have helped you. Anyone else who reads, discusses, and assists with your paper should able acknowledged.
Step 1: Choose a text as your primary focus from the course syllabus. Note this must be a different text from your paper 1 and your presentation.
Step 2: Choose a theme to analyze throughout the text you may choose any theme you want that is present in your text, but some ideas from class discussions are (these are just suggestions; don’t feel limited to them):
Rewriting History
Loss,
Trauma,
Pacifisms,
Historically marginalized groups
Social critique
Freedom
Modernisms/ modernity
Colonialism
Communisms
Orientalism
Fascism
What it means to be human
Social justice
Dominant cultural
Violence
Trauma
The horrors of war
Gender relationships
Avoidance of war
Metaphysics – Interconnectedness
Oppressions
Ethics
Step 3: Research your theme in sources that are related to your text, either historically or conceptually. Take notes (possibly literature maps) on your research.
Step 4: Write out a concept map of your research findings and how/where your theme appears in the 5 texts you will be citing.
Step 5: Decide how your theme and the research you found presents in your tutor text, establish why this matters, and how it performs.
Work those elements into a thesis that contains: 1) an argument; 2) an analytic perspective on ONE TUTOR TEXT; 3) is one sentence; 4) presents YOUR thoughts/opinion; 5) a SO-WHAT factor.
