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ENGL 1101 Worozbyt Fall 2025: The Research Project

Persuasive Research Essay

The Research Project

 

The Task:

Choose Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” or Walker’s “Am I Blue?” and perform library research to locate four secondary sources pertaining to your chosen story. Create and submit a Works Cited page with a minimum of four secondary sources to the assignment labeled “Research Project.”

You are obliged by now to have familiarized yourself with proper MLA formatting and citation. This information is found easily online, at the OWL Purdue website, and has been covered in Course Content. YouTube has plenty of videos on how to do it, and you will notice that the Galileo databases can easily generate entries for the Works Cited page.

Rubrik:

20 points each for relevant secondary source material.

20 points for proper formatting of a Works Cited page in MLA format.