For your final research paper, you will be applying your literary concept to your novel.
Your paper will assert that your literary concept paper applies to your novel or it doesn’t.
Your thesis should be something like “To Kill a Mockingbird is a Bildungsroman.” I’m
assuming most of you will take the affirmative position, which would be the wise position
to take.
You will restate a definition for your term in this paper, but I don’t want it to be word-for-
word what you have in your literary concept paper. And do not include the rest of your
Literary Concept paper in this paper.
As with your Literary Concept paper, do not include the definition in the introduction.
Students who put it in the introduction are less apt to have a thesis.
You will then support your position using specific evidence from the entire novel. Also,
you can use outside sources to support your position. For instance, if you’ve run across
a source that says To Kill a Mockingbird is a Bildungsroman, you want to use that
source in your paper.
You should shoot for 10 pages for this assignment. I want at least three sources cited
in your paper. You MUST use good MLA works cited page entries and parenthetical
citations.
