For this assignment. you will compose a ten-page research paper on a great mind chosen from the affiliated list. There are three constituents to this assignment. The first is that you will compose about the major idea. thought. or system of belief for which the great mind was known. Second. you will compose about two or three ways in which the instructions of the great mind influenced history. Third. you will supply a thoughtful analysis of at least one thought touted by the great mind. You will necessitate to research and decently document eight to ten scholarly beginnings utilizing the MLA criterion for commendation. In add-on to composing the paper. you will be larning and implementing a manner to form your research and authorship. You will have two classs for this assignment: one for the concluding paper and one for the research and composing prep work.

Research Component

Research is an of import accomplishment for college pupils to larn and implement. When done good. research will assist beef up an statement. turn out a point. verify facts. and explicate with first-hand cognition. At its most basic degree. research is analyzing the plants of experts in any given field. For case. if I want to research bosom surgery. I will turn up experts in the field of cardiology and read what they say about the bosom. In reading their plants. which may dwell of published surveies. medical diary articles or medical books. or enlightening medical web sites or web logs. I am assuming and appealing to their expert cognition and accomplishment in an country I know small or nil approximately. In short. I’m reading and analyzing their work in order to larn. For your research paper. you will be appealing to the adept cognition of a great mind. You will research articles and/or books that were either written by the great mind ( we call this a primary beginning ) or by person who studied the great mind ( we call this a secondary beginning ) .

For illustration. let’s say you are analyzing Jonathan Edwards ( great Puritan theologist ) . Were you to read and analyze his existent discourses. you would be researching a primary beginning. Were you to read and analyze what John Piper ( present twenty-four hours curate and avid Jonathan Edwards fan ) has written about the
divinity of Jonathan Edwards. so you would be carry oning secondary research.

Both primary and secondary beginnings are really valuable when composing research documents. Normally primary research is considered to be the most dependable in that it is closest to the original ( the thought conceiver. the eye-witness history. the exposure. etc… ) . A good research paper will be able to voyage both types of research and carefully incorporate it suitably. For the intents of this assignment. you’ll be making both because you’ll be concerned with what the great mind really taught and that will best be discovered by his or her existent Hagiographas. and you’ll be concerned with how his or her ideas influenced history. which is most likely written by other bookmans.

In add-on to carry oning primary and secondary research. you’ll need to do certain that your beginnings are consider scholarly ; that is. your beginnings come from people who have appropriate expertness in the field of you are analyzing. This will non be an issue with your primary beginnings because you will travel directly to the beginning ( i. e. . you’ll study the Hagiographas or Marx or Lewis ) . but it will be more of an issue in secondary beginnings. How to state if an article or book is considered scholarly or written by an important expert in the field can be slippery. but here are a few regulations: 1. Does the writer have an educational background that would account for the cognition in the article or book? 2. In the instance of articles. is it published in a peer-reviewed diary? 3. Does the article or book offer analysis and review of original beginnings or merely give mere feelings or sentiments? Another term I have mentioned in respects to research is MLA commendation ( Modern Language Association ) .

MLA is a method of commendation that is used chiefly in the humanistic disciplines that indicates the beginning of your research. Learning MLA commendation regulations takes clip and tonss of attempt. but it is a necessary portion of carry oning and composing a well-researched paper. For this assignment. you’ll need at least eight scholarly beginnings that may include journal articles or books but may NOT include web sites. There will be in-class talks that will learn you where to turn up scholarly resources and how to decently maintain path and mention them. As I see it. there are two major avenues of research for this paper: the first is research affecting the existent thoughts of the great mind. The 2nd is research affecting the analysis of the thinker’s thoughts.

Content of Research Paper

As mentioned in the assignment overview. there are two constituents to this research paper. The first is that you will research the major thought or set of thoughts for which the great mind was known. This will be the first subdivision of the research paper and will include a thorough account of the great thinker’s thought or thoughts and he or she came to belief or believe in such a manner. The 2nd subdivision of the paper will include a treatment on two or three of the major ways the great thinker’s thoughts influenced history. The 3rd subdivision is where you provide thoughtful analysis about at least one of the great thinker’s thoughts. This is non. needfully. an statement. but instead it is an chance for you to interrupt down the thought and remark on it yourself. Although I’m more interested in your analysis. it may assist to research how others have analyzed and critiqued your great thinker’s thoughts. In this subdivision you may

1. Review the thinker’s thought

2. Interrupt down the thinker’s thoughts and provide extra elucidation or deduction 3. Show how different bookmans have viewed or interpreted the great thinker’s thoughts and whether agree or disagree 4. Show why the thinker’s thoughts produced negative or positive effects on society. divinity. history. etc. 5. Any combination of the above.

Please note that I do non desiring you to compose a life ; that is. I do non desire elaborate treatment on the great thinker’s household history. matrimony. avocations. physical visual aspect. personal wellness. friends. etc. unless is it perfectly pertinent to his or her rational part.

Paper Organization

Each of you will be required to make an lineation for your paper and turn it in as portion of the assignment. Additionally. you will be required to maintain path of all research and bend in your research notes.

Research Organization

I will necessitate you to maintain path of your beginnings through Microsoft One Note or Word. whichever works best for you. For every beginning you look at. you’ll need to enter the undermentioned information: 1. Source Title- rubric of the article or book

2. Beginning Location-book. ebook with web reference. journal article with web reference 3. Source Citation- MLA commendation as it would look in your plants cited page 4. What-what information are you utilizing from the beginning. If it is short. type it here. If it is a chapter or big subdivision. compose down the major thought or some cardinal words and the necessary information to happen it in your beginning easy ( page or subdivision Numberss. headers. etc. ) . 5. Plan- how you plan on utilizing the information

You will hold at least eight records with the above information. although it is much more likely you’ll have more and may non utilize all beginnings in the existent authorship of the paper. That is all right. Note: Make sure you accurately enter information for every beginning because you won’t retrieve.

Rating Standards:

Each paper will be graded on the followers:
1. Accurate. detailed. and thoughtful treatment and analysis of the great thinker’s thoughts
2. Coherent. fluid prose
3. Accurate execution of MLA commendation
4. Integration of scholarly beginnings
5. Proper attachment to Standard English grammar and manner
6. Proper attachment to page length and data format guidelines