Choose a play from history. You may include modern plays and musicals that started on the stage. NO MOVIES!
rInclude 3-4 productions. You may include visuals in your report.
Be Organized! Include a summary about the play and playwright. Why is it important in theatre history? Use sources that are reliable! Use the library!
Use MLA Style!
Include a thesis statement in your introduction.
Make sure you support your claims with evidence from the text—use quotes.
Underline your thesis statement in the first paragraph
Pages typed double spaced—12point times new roman
Quoting Evidence from Sources
Quoting is one of the ways you can incorporate evidence from a source into your research paperor other writing assignment.
Quoting means using the exact words of the source, rather than a summary or paraphrase in yourown words. This is also called a direct quote.
To incorporate a direct quote effectively, you need three things:
1. Introduction
This tells the reader that a quote is coming up.
2. Quoted text
This is the actual text reproduced exactly as it appears in the original source.
3. Explanation of relevance
This tells the reader why the quoted text is important for your argument.
In the following example, the introduction is marked (1), the quoted text is marked
(2) and the explanation of relevance is marked (3). (The numbers are just forclarification; you would not use them in an actual writing assignment.)
(1) In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson includes a list of god-givenrights, including (2) “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
(3) These words indicate an important shift in emphasis from the First ContinentalCongress of 1774, which had issued a declaration of rights in which stated that thecolonists were entitled to life, liberty and property.
How to Format Direct Quotes
Brief quotes should be set off from the surrounding text with double quotation marks as inthe example above. If your quoted text is more than four lines, use a block quote. A div begins on a new line, doesn’t have quotation marks, and is indented about one inchfrom the left margin.
Quoted evidence must come from reliable sources and be properly cited. In additionto using direct quotes, you can also iincorporate evidence by
paraphrasing or summarizing.
