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Essay Instructions: 1.write a research paper based on the Novel"AS I LAY DYING"by William Faulkner.
2.Write your own analysis first then sources clearly differentiated.
3.use block quotes.
4.Do not follow direct quotes together,separate with statements of your own.
5.Do not end paragraph with a quote.
6.End paper with summarizing main points.

Essay Instructions: I am going to type out the exact instructions my teacher has given to me:

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS: The focus of your research paper will be William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." The paper will follow MLA guidelines (current parenthetical style only, see secs 50-57 in Bedford Handbook), will be at least 6 typed pages of text, no more then 6, followed by 6 Work Cited. You will use at least 6 secondary sources and one primary source (the novel). Of those 6 sources used, you will also use at least 3 electronic sources and at least 3 hard copy sources. You will turn in complete copies of any hard-copy articles from which you cite. Complete copy of an article means any page cited, plus first and last page, plus the citation information. For books, you must turn in a copy of a page cited plus front and back of the title page, or the catalog record. You will write an abbreviated title of the book plus the author’s name on each page of any copy from a book unless the publisher includes that information as headers. Make sure page numbers appear clearly on all copied pages. If they do not, write page numbers clearly on the copied pages. For each Internet web cite used, make sure you print out not only the source, but also the Home page for that site. Both are needed for accurate citations in the Work Cited. For library database sources, make sure you print out not only the source, but also the citation information. For every on-line source, check to see if the source actually tries to provide its own MLA citation. I will take off 5 points each time the paper slips into second or first person or each time I find a dropped quotation, or major slippage from the literary present tense. Each body paragraph must have at least one direct quotation from the primary source (the book “As I Lay Dying”) and at least two secondary sources cited (direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary.) I will check parenthetical references and the Works Cited.

MY TEACHER’S EXAMPLES OF TOPICS AND THESIS OPTIONS: Your topic is not your thesis sentence for the paper. Your topic is the focus of you research. Your research will help you determine your thesis—your comment on the topic. To find a comment on the topic, you could ask yourself a question about the topic. I could ask, if cash is Anse’s son, how is he like his father and how is he different? Then after I do my research, I may have an answer for why they are different and my thesis or comment becomes: Cash, unlike his father Anse, learns wisdom through his physical sufferings and is at peace with himself and his world by novel’s end. –or-Cash provides a role model for his brothers that Anse could never be. You could ask the question Why is Vardaman a little off? And then after research you could argue: Vardaman is environmentally retarded, or that Addie is an emotionally abusive mother. You could ask why did Faulkner think his novel was a book of hope and conclude that rather then being a book of despair, Vardaman and Dewey Dell represent survival and hope for the family.

WHEN DOING RESEARCH:

Use the best scholarly sources you can find. Your judgment of which secondary sources to use affects your grade. Do not use student papers or projects published online. Do not use Cliff’s Notes, Monarch Notes, or Sparks Notes. I will permit Barron Book Notes and the reprinted essay in Cliff’s Notes by Dr. Robertson about Darl’s relationship with Addie.

RECOMMENDED SOURCES:

Hard copy:
--Books on Faulkner
--Reference Works:
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Companion to Southern Literature

Electronic Sources:
-Faulkner in the Net-Library
-On-line journals such as Teaching Faulkner or The Faulkner Journal of Japan
-On-line web cite dedicated to Faulkner such as William Faulkner on the Web. One good Faulkner site usually leads to another – so follow the trail of links. Make sure you get a copy of the home page of the site so you can document your source well.
-Library databases such as provided by EBSCOHost and The Literature Resource Center

EBSCO - http://search.ebscohost.com
ID: s8478896 Password: password

Thomson/Gale - http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2484
Password: texas

Also, when citing sources in the paper: please put after each quotation, in parentheses, the authors last name and the page number the quote was found on.


Additional information that I, the student, need to ask you:

I’m very nervous about using your site! Will you be able to follow these guidelines? How will I get copies of the sources used? Did I give you enough information to write this paper? I need to give a rough draft to show progress (just the introduction and first body paragraph) is this something that can be supplied?


If at all possible please use a topic having to do with any of the following:
-Insanity issues that run in the family
-Teenage issues
-Social work is my major so anything having to do with dysfunctional family problems
- Favoritism used by Addie/ Children being ignored
-Selfishness in any or all characters

THANK-YOU SO MUCH! I will be checking my e-mail around the clock incase any problems occur.

Essay Instructions: I need a research paper (about 7 pages) discussing how the family structure in As I Lay Dying affects the children. The paper should discuss how EACH and EVERY child is affected by the family structure.

You must include at least the following sources:
1 primary source (As I Lay Dying)
1 biographical source
3 biographical or social or history or psychology sources
1 work of literary criticism

Please make sure that you pay a lot of attention into this and make the paper as analytical and detailed as possible, while also keeping it simple.

You can use the following to help you obtain your sources: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/b_n_aild.html#WadlingtonAILDSooS

You can use this essay to establish some ideas: http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=3719

Essay Instructions: I need a 2 page paper describing what 5 different sources think about the family dysfunction in AS I LAY DYING. You should write a paragraph on each source and include the pages where it was taken from.

Also, please include where i can find this books online for future reference.