Reference no: EM131442967

Literary topic

Compare and contrast between two poets or two poems:

a. Ezra Pound - "In a Station of the Metro,"

b. Amy Lowell - "Petals," "A London Thoroughfare...," "The Taxi"

c. H.D - "Sheltered Garden," "Sea Poppies," "Cities,"

d. T. S. Eliot - "Preludes"

e. Georgia Douglas Johnson - "Common Dust," Smothered Fires," "your World"

f. Langston Hughes - "Harlem," "I Too"

Therefore, I will let you choose which poets or which poems do you want.

Organisation of the Term Paper

- Formulate a research question as a basis for your argument (you can also begin by making a claim or expressing a hypothesis).
- Develop an argument; this means, you need to interpret, explain and argue, rather than just summarise what others have said.
- Avoid simple plot summaries.
- Make sure that your paper is structured logically.
- Check that your sentences follow on from each other; this is, check for coherence.
- Avoid subjective statements. Instead support your interpretations with evidence from the text or arguments from scholarly background sources: "this phrase can be interpreted as xyz because ..." Remember the phrase "no evaluation without justification".
- Note that good papers move been general comments and specific discussions of details.

Language and Presentation
- Keep in mind that the standard of your English accounts for 50% of your mark.
- Check that your sentences are complete.
- Read your paper through carefully before submitting it so that you can avoid basic grammatical errors (agreement, tense inconsistency, spelling).

Quotations
- Quotations from literary works and scholarly background sources need to be identified by quotation marks.
- Give page numbers in brackets after quotations from individual literary works.
- Type out any quotation accurately (mistakes in your quotations are embarrassing).
- Remember that quotations need to be interpreted; this is, you need to explain why you quoted a particular passage. (Rule of thumb: your interpretation should be longer than the passage you have quoted.)
- You need to refer to at least 4 scholarly essays.
- All quotations need to be acknowledge appropriately.