“Uncovering the Unanswered: Exploring the Gaps in [Text] through Synthesizing Scholarly Sources”

For this assignment, you’ll undertake a research project that emerges from your Argumentative Essay. The project culminates in a research paper of at least 1500 words, which MUST include proper citations and a works cited page in MLA format.  You have had access to a sample paper for formatting purposes since Module 1.
You will use your response (agreement/disagreement) to the text you chose for your argumentative essay as a starting point for your own argument about some aspect about the topic – a question within the topic you feel the text leaves unexplored or unanswered (or just not answered satisfactorily).  So, for example, you might point out a perspective or question the text problematically leaves unexplored, and your paper would then try to fill in that gap by making a case for its significance.  To make your argument, you will synthesize scholarly secondary sources – bring various secondary sources into conversation with one another so that each one fills in a part of the puzzle as you piece together the answer to your central question.
Not all of the sources you find will be useful, so you’ll undergo a process of evaluating each and restarting your search as needed. Once you’ve settled on a few sources, you’ll analyze them, engage them critically, annotate them, and put them into conversation with each other. After all this searching and note-taking and questioning and rethinking your ideas, you’ll be ready to compose a draft of your research essay.
The task may sound daunting, which is why we’re doing this in steps. You’ve already done the first part of the work by having spent time thinking and writing about the text to which you’ve responded.  This will help give you direction in terms of the kinds of sources to look for.  As we move forward, you will submit a list of potential sources and an annotated bibliography. You are required to use at least four scholarly secondary sources in the final draft of your research paper. More specifically, the four scholarly secondary sources must be scholarly journal articles.