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Posted: December 11th, 2013

The research essay should focus on one or more poems, short stories, or plays from the Madden anthology and should be based on at least one of your 3 paged essays.  There are many possible ways to approach the Research Essay, provided three important criteria are met: 1. the essay must be argumentative, centered on some aspect of the work(s) you have chosen. 2.the essay must be overwhelmingly original: that is, it mainly reflects your ideas analysis, thoughts, feelings, or understanding of the literary work(s) being written about. 3. the essay must involve research to back up or inform your ideas, analysis, and so on; this research must be properly cited and should come from minimum of five sources, three of which should be print or electronic versions of print material available in electronic form through the library’s databases.