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Quiz Instructions
Purpose & Task:
The actual writing assignment portion of this will take the form of a quiz. However, it is just a place to include your responses and to be evaluated on separate features for this assignment. Using research to help you interpret a work of literature is an important aspect of critical thinking, and this process and assignment can be used for your Novel Essay. It is also part of the overall scaffolding process. I will evaluate your abilities to complete the following tasks:
Research and locate a peer-reviewed source
List the appropriate MLA Works Cited information for the source
Summarize the peer-reviewed article
Use the central ideas of the article to help you interpret an important scene from the novel.
Explaining “Peer-Reviewed”:
What is a peer-reviewed source? Peer reviewed (or “scholarly”) sources such as academic books or articles that appear in different journals go through extensive review and revisions. Experts examine these sources prior to publication which involves more rigorous expectations than what newspapers and magazine articles, blogs, documentaries, general websites, etc. usually go through. Being able to make a clear distinction between what is considered “peer-reviewed” and “scholarly” versus what is not is important in the level of research you are doing. For this assignment, I would like you to locate a peer-reviewed/scholarly article and provide a simple synthesis with the novel we are using for the Novel Essay. Taking important and relevant ideas from your peer-reviewed source and using them to guide your interpretation of the scene you have selected from the novel is called a “synthesis” process.
What kind of peer-reviewed source should I look for? While you should look for an article about the novel or even the author’s broader writing style and interests, it does not necessarily have to be about this novel specifically. However, it should connect to literary ideas, themes, issues, or concepts you see in the novel that you are interested in developing. It should NOT be a source I’ve already assigned this quarter. I want you to find one on your own.
Steps for Understanding the Research Process:
An easy way to search for and distinguish peer-reviewed sources from general ones is to use a limiter and key search terminology in your research. Follow these steps to help you begin this process:
Step 1:What is a peer-reviewed (also called academic or scholarly) source? (Links to an external site.)
Step 2: How do I perform a basic search in a databaseLinks to an external site.. Look for the “peer reviewed” limiter box in different databases to ensure only peer-reviewed sources come up in your focused search.
Step 3: How do I distinguish a peer-reviewed/scholarly source from general or “popular” sources such as a blog, general website, newspaper or magazine article, book review, documentary, interview, etc.? Links to an external site.(Click on the “Compare Two Texts: Popular vs. Scholarly” tab in the center of page).
Step 4: How do I begin looking for peer reviewed source? Links to an external site.
Step 5: What does it actually look like when I search a database for peer reviewed sources?Links to an external site.Links to an external site.(Click on the “Sample Search for Scholarly Literature Criticism” tab in the center of the page).
Step 6:How do I conduct an advanced search using the EBSCO-Host database? (Links to an external site.)
Prior to completing this assignment, feel free to email me a link to the article to confirm that it is peer reviewed.
Before you take the “quiz,” here is what you will need to prepare for your responses. It would be good to complete this on a separate document before opening the quiz so you can cut and paste your prepared responses into the three different sections of the quiz:
A) Research (10 points)
After you have located and read a peer-reviewed (“scholarly”) article that can be used to interpret some significant aspect of El Hachmi’s novel The Last Patriarch, list the complete and accurate MLA citation below. Consult the following tools for guidance:
MLA Resources section in Canvas’ Modules
Holman Library’s MLA Citation GuideLinks to an external site.
Perdue’s MLA Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Links to an external site.)
Literary Spaces “Working with Sources: Using MLA, 8th edition Style” (p. 66-77) located under the Canvas Course Reader heading in Modules.
B) Summarize Article (5 points)
In just 4-5 sentences, summarize (in your own words) what the article’s main argument is. Be sure what you focus on provides a relevant overview of the article and connects to what you use in the synthesis from part C below.
C) Synthesize Article with the Novel (15 points)
Find a relevant scene from the novel to demonstrate how you are able to link some key ideas from your peer-reviewed article to the novel. Do not use the same scene assigned in the East-West Discussion Forum you just completed, for no points will be given here. Use a new one of your choosing. Be sure you identify which scene you have selected and use key parts throughout that scene as evidence for your analysis you provide.
Use page number (if available) references if you quote anything.
Do not summarize the scene. Jump directly into your interpretation for this portion of the assignment. However, be sure you first identify the scene and then use sections of it to support your discussion.
(400 word minimum)
To help focus your interpretation of the scene, respond to the following questions as you integrate and blend the ideas (“synthesize”) from your peer-reviewed article with a scene from the novel. Remember to focus on the spaces/places in the scene:
What ideas from your article help you understand how the characters in the scene interact with and use spaces and places, whether real or imagined? (4 points)
How might space/place function as a character within the story or reveal the meaning of what an East-West identity looks like? (4 points)
What do key spaces/places mean in the scene in relation to how things develop in the rest of the novel? Draw on ideas from your article to help you. (4 points)
Are there heterotopic characteristics generated in the space/places presented in this scene? How so exactly? (3 points)
Questions:
1) After you have located and read a peer-reviewed (“scholarly”) article that can be used to interpret some significant aspect of El Hachmi’s novel The Last Patriarch, list the complete and accurate MLA citation below. Consult the following tools for guidance:
MLA Resources section in Canvas’ Modules
Holman Library’s MLA Citation GuideLinks to an external site.
Perdue’s MLA Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Links to an external site.)
Literary Spaces “Working with Sources: Using MLA, 8th edition Style” (p. 66-77) located under the Canvas Course Reader heading in Modules.
2) In just 4-5 sentences, summarize (in your own words) what the article’s main argument is. Be sure what you focus on provides a relevant overview of the article and connects to what you use in the synthesis from part C below.
3) Find a relevant scene from the novel to demonstrate how you are able to link some key ideas from your peer-reviewed article to the novel. Do not use the same scene assigned in the East-West Discussion Forum you just completed, for no points will be given here. Use a new one of your choosing. Be sure you identify which scene you have selected and use key parts throughout that scene as evidence for your analysis you provide.
Use page number (if available) references if you quote anything.
Do not summarize the scene. Jump directly into your interpretation for this portion of the assignment. However, be sure you first identify the scene and then use sections of it to support your discussion.
(400 word minimum)
To help focus your interpretation of the scene, respond to the following questions as you integrate and blend the ideas (“synthesize”) from your peer-reviewed article with a scene from the novel. Remember to focus on the spaces/places in the scene:
What ideas from your article help you understand how the characters in the scene interact with and use spaces and places, whether real or imagined? (4 points)
How might space/place function as a character within the story or reveal the meaning of what an East-West identity looks like? (4 points)
What do key spaces/places mean in the scene in relation to how things develop in the rest of the novel? Draw on ideas from your article to help you. (4 points)
Are there heterotopic characteristics generated in the space/places presented in this scene? How so exactly? (3 points)
