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Your assignment is to write a five-page historical analysis of Parable of the Sower we have
read that you have not already written about. Use specific examples from the chosen
work to support your analysis and a minimum of eight sources other than the text itself.
Use one of the two questions of Historical Criticism listed below to guide your research
and analysis.
Historical critics try to answer questions such as these:
1. What worldview was typical of the author’s time? What aspects of this worldview
seem prevalent in this work? Does the author seem to accept or rebel against
this worldview?
2. What events, issues, concerns of the time are manifested in the work? What
does the work say about life at the time?
As with other interpretive strategies we’ve studied, Historical Criticism provides a
framework for building context to help you understand and interpret a work of
literature. Here you use what you learn about the time the work was written to justify
your critique.
Process
While there are different strategies for approaching this work, you might
consider following these steps.
1. Re-read and/or review margin notes in the chosen work.
2. Construct a Foundation Summary of the chosen work using the elements
of summary listed below (if you have not done so already).
a. Who is the story about?
b. What is the story about?
c. When does the story take place?
d. Where does the story take place?
e. Why did the author write the story? (In other words, what does the
author intend to communicate to the reader?)
f. How does the story take place? (In other words, who is telling the
story or from what point of view is it being told?)
3. Convert your “why” for the work into a critique by framing it in terms of a
social, moral, or political issue (which you will then justify through your
historical analysis).
4. Choose one of the Historical Criticism questions to guide your analysis and
research.
5. Conduct an initial round of exploratory research to develop a better
understanding of time in which the work was written and the effectiveness
of the research tools you employed. If your research tools are not
producing enough credible results, consider adding additional research
tools and consulting with a librarian (try the 24/7 chat on the college
library homepage) or myself. Use the social, moral, or political issue that
is the focus of your critique to narrow the scope of your research.
6. Conduct another round of research until you have more than the
minimum number of credible sources required for the assignment.
7. Review your sources for credibility and discard any that may not be
sufficiently credible or that are noticeably less credible than your other
sources. Create a works cited page for the remaining sources. (You can
always delete any you don’t end up using.) This will help you create
accurate in-text citations as you draft your paper.
8. Ask yourself “Why do I think so?” about your critique and use several
reasons generated in this way to organize your support/ body paragraphs
in the development of your paper.
9. Refine your research and select several examples from the time period
that best justify each reason and your critique — that are most relevant to
justifying your interpretation. Conduct additional research as needed.
10. Select relevant, specific examples from the chosen work to illustrate the
support you have already gathered and help develop your reasons.
11. Write a first draft that is at least 2 – 3 pages in length and incorporates at
least four sources.
12. Write a final draft of at least five pages. This draft should incorporate at
least eight sources and parenthetical citations as needed. Include your
works cited page. Bring three copies to the final draft workshop.
13. Conduct a final round of editing and revising based on the feedback you
receive and using any additional research you conduct (if any). Submit
this revision for a grade.

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English 101 Research Proposal and Annotated Bibliography
Instructions:
A good academic research question has these qualities: (1) it interests you, (2) it may interest your audience, (3) it has no easy answer, and (4) it is related to your reading. To formulate a question to guide your research, respond to the following prompts. Your grade for this assignment depends on how clearly and thoroughly you respond to each prompt.
1. For this assignment you may either find an interesting claim made in an article or short story that you read for this class, or I encourage you to find something from outside of class that you are interested in learning more about. This part should be 2-4 sentences. Remember from the syllabus the topics to avoid. (5 points)
2. Explain your interest and acknowledge your readers. This should be 3-6 sentences long. (5 points)
Example: I am interested in this statement because I have always been told that I am supposed to go to college in order to get a good job. I wonder why I should take courses that are unrelated to what I want to do. I think my readers will be interested in this topic because they may also be thinking about the purpose of their education.
3. Formulate a research question (or two or three related questions). (5 points)
Example: What is the purpose of a college education? (Why should people go to college?)
4. Think of at least three possible answers for each research question. You will likely think of more answers once you start doing research for your paper. (10 points)
Example:
1. Most people may think that they go to college in order to be trained for future employment.
2. Others may think that the purpose of a college education is to prepare people to be good citizens.
3. Another reason may be for a person to learn to become independent.
4. Some people may want to explore areas of study so that they can find out what their strengths are and decide what career they would like to pursue.
5. What sources will you consult? Prepare an Annotated List of Works Cited. (The list for your final paper will contain only entries for those you cite.) You need 5 total sources and annotations. For each annotation, provide a very brief summary of the source and how you will use it in your paper. As you prepare this list, be sure that each work is relevant to your research question. Each annotation needs to be 100-150 words in length, grammatically correct, and written in a coherent, unified manner. You may not use quotes in the annotation. THE ENTIRE ANNOTATION MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. (25 points)

Write a first-person, chronologically organized account of your thinking process as you explore possible solutions to a question or problem related to the issues and themes presented in your text.
Begin by describing what the question is, how and why you became interested in it, and why it is problematic for you (that is, why you can’t answer it). Then, as you contemplate the problem and do research, narrate the evolving process of your thinking.
Include three kinds of information for your reader:
1. External details of your search (brainstorming, conversations, trips to the library, methods for finding sources – the narrative “story” of your search);
2. Summaries of the new arguments/ information you recovered along the way (summaries of arguments you read from the scholarly literature, new information from interviews, etc.), and
3. Your own internal mental wrestling to make sense of new material (what you were thinking about, how your ideas were evolving – reformulating the problem, changing your mind, experiencing confusion versus the “aha!” moments).
For this essay, it doesn’t matter whether you reach a final position or solve the problem; your reader is interested in your process, not your final product. Make your exploratory essay an interesting intellectual
detective story – something your readers will enjoy. Minimum six pages and two secondary sources
Will also need to create a “one pager” info. sheet to summarize your findings for the class