Research Essay

Formal Essay #3: Research Essay in MLA style Length: 1,000 words (includes the words in the annotated bibliography) Format: literature review (a literature review surveys books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue and then provides a desсrіption, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research question being investigated). Note then, that a literature review is not a “position paper” or “argumentative essay”: its purpose is not to state an opinion or defend a position; its purpose is to summarize and evaluate the views of others who have written or spoken on the subject. How to Devise, Research and Write this Essay: Choose a historical event or historical figure that/who involves a controversy of opinion: historians and/or biographers must disagree in their interpretations of the event or the aspect of the person’s life you choose to research and write about. Then, research using specialized, subsсrіption-paid data bases such as ProQuest and EBSCO (available through the Lassen College Library and its Website) to locate peer reviewed sources (scholarly journals containing articles that have been reviewed and approved by other scientists before publication) that have journal articles about this topic. Your research may also include a personal interview conducted by you in which you interview someone who has an informed opinion on the subject, but given the Covid quarantine, this personal interview is optional. Your research may also include non-peer reviewed sources (mass market publications and websites that are not scholarly journals and that have not been reviewed by other research scientists). Then, write an essay, using MLA citation format, in which you present the opinions, arguments, and supporting points that you found in your sources. Your essay should be a combination of summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation from the sources, each attributed to the source in came from. Then, write an annotated bibliography in which you list each source in MLA format (in alphabetical order by each source’s lead author’s last name; see A Writer’s Reference for more MLA format details), followed in each case by a brief desсrіption of what the source said (this annotation can be lifted from what you wrote in the boy of your essay, if you summarized the source’s main point in the body of your essay. Don’t include first-person “I” or direct quotes from the source in this annotation). An ″A″ essay will contain all of the following: 1. An introduction that establishes the focus of your subject, attracts the attention of your readers, and asserts the purpose of your essay. 2. A body that presents all sides of the issue in a balanced and objective way, referencing at least four sources: two of these sources must be peer review journal articles. 3. References to sources, via quoting, summarizing and paraphrasing. Referencing must be in MLA format (reference to the last name of the lead author of the article in a lead-in phrase, or in parentheses that follow the quote, summary or paraphrase). 4. Quoted material woven into the body of the paper and bridged by your own paraphrasing and discussion of the source material. 5. Writing that is clear, effective and engaging, and the style and tone are appropriate to your topic and your intended audience. 6. Carefully proofread sentences that are largely clear of mistakes in spelling, punctuation, grammar and diction. 7. An annotated bibliography that conforms to MLA style and contains all the sources referred to in the body of the essay (including two peer review journal articles).