Part One:
** This must be submitted through Canvas. **

Pick one of the topics listed on our Research Paper Topics Page  or one of your own invention, as long as your primary focus is on one of the texts discussed this semester.

This will be your topic not only for this assignment, but for the final research paper as well.

• You will not be able to submit a final research paper if you have not first successfully completed (i.e received a passing grade on) this assignment.
• If you change your research paper topic, you must submit a new library assignment for the new topic.
  

• Go to the Richardson Library website & look up sources (books, journals, microfilm/fiche) on that subject.
• Be sure to examine the USMAI catalog as well as the MLA Bibliography database.
  
• Obtain (i.e. get in your physical possession) twenty (20) secondary sources, including at least five (5) books, five (5) journal articles, and five (5) on-line articles.  If you can not obtain twenty secondary sources, you will need to pick another topic.
• Essays found in our textbook (the Norton edition of Frankenstein) may be used for this part.
  
• Compile a typed list of Works Cited for these sources, using proper MLA Format. (see sample )
  • Please include at the top of the page what your research topic is.
• Submit scanned copies of ten (10) of the works. The scan should include the title page of the text and the page containing the thesis statement, which needs to be highlighted.

Part Two:
Library Paper (500 word minimum)
** This must be submitted through Canvas. **

Pick one of the secondary sources from the list you compiled in Part One.

• For this part, you may not use one of the sources assigned from our textbook (e.g. Brantlinger, Mellor, Moers, etc.).
  

• Read through the source, whether in its entirety (article) or its introduction (book-length piece).
• Compose a 500-word discussion of the main argument of the work, including a summary of the main points and an explanation of which critical perspective(s) (feminist, psychoanalytic, etc.) is/are utilized in the discussion.
• Incorporate at least two (2) quotes from the work and explain how they demonstrate the perspective(s) you have identified, using proper MLA format and providing accurate parenthetical citation.
• Make sure to include a Works Cited entry for the source in proper MLA format.


• See sample