This assignment has three goals:
To provide you an opportunity to connect your learning in your English literature, linguistics, and/or English Education courses in a meaningful final thesis.
To challenge you to deeply explore a topic and sustain an argument throughout the substantial paper.
To develop your ability to publicly engage in academic discourse by sharing your knowledge with your peers and your faculty in an English Capstone Conference.
That said, the overarching purpose of writing a thesis is to encourage the professionalization of our English majors and help you prepare for the next step(s) in your academic/professional life, whether that is graduate school or a professional career.
A thesis should demonstrate the application of theory, apply critical thinking, include a literature review, demonstrate competence in English writing, be well structured, and show the development of a sustained argument. Through the independent research required of this project, you will invest in the extensive study of an area of interest.
You will choose a topic to pursue independently and write a thesis-length scholarly paper. You may draw your topic from any scholarly area supported by your training as an English major: that is, if you are in the Literature and Language track, you may write about a literature or linguistics-based topic, or if you are in one of the two English Education tracks, you might research a topic related to the English Language Arts curriculum or the teaching of English literacy.
You will receive two handouts that will help guide your writing. They are suggestive, and not prescriptive, and each is specific to the kind of thesis you will write: literary or social science. You will find those posted on BB, under course materials.
The assignment will be graded on the rubric posted on BB. The details of the assignment are as follows:
Criteria:
Length
25-30 pages, exclusive of footnotes, bibliography, and titles
Sources
20-25 sources, exclusive of primary texts
Style
Literary: MLA
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