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FICTION Talking with Amy Tan 1 READING A STORY THE ART Appointment in Samarra A student tries to flee from Death in this brief, sardonic fable. Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun The North Wind and the Sun argue who is stronger and decide to try their powers on an unsuspecting traveler. Bidpai, The Tortoise and the Geese A fable that gives another dimension to Andrew Lang's quip, "He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue." Chuang Tzu, Independence The Prince of Ch'u asks the philosopher Chuang Tzu to become his advisor and gets a surprising reply in this classic Chinese fable. Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death Neither God nor the Devil came to the christening. In this stark folktale, a young man receives magical powers with a string attached. PLOT THE SHORT STORY John Updike, A & P In walk three girls in nothing but bathing suits, and Sammy finds himself no longer an aproned checkout clerk but an armored knight. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT PLOT CHECKLIST: Writing About Plot TOPICS FOR WRITING on plot CONSCIOUSNESS William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Proud, imperious Emily Grierson defied the town from the fortress of her mansion. Who could have guessed the secret that lay within? Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart The smoldering eye at last etinguished, a murderer finds that, despite all his attempts at a cover-up, his victim will be heard. Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. Since no one appreciates Sister, she decides to live at the Post Office. After meeting her family, you won't blame her. Jamaica Kincaid, Girl "Try to walk like a lady, and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming." An old-fashioned mother tells her daughter how to live. REVIEW 3 CHARACTER CHARACTERization motvation Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall For sity years Ellen Weatherall has fought back the memory of that terrible day, but now once more the priest waits in the house. Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain 0 Anders is in line when armed robbers enter the bank, and he can't help but get involved. Alice Walker, Everyday Use When successful Dee visits from the city, she has changed her name to reflect her African roots. Her mother and sister notice other things have changed, too. Raymond Carver, Cathedral He had never epected to find himself trying to describe a cathedral to a blind man. He hadn't even wanted to meet this odd, old friend of his wife. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT CHARACTER CHECKLIST: Writing About Character topics for writing ON CHARACTER TERMS FOR REGIONALISM NATURALISM Kate Chopin, The Storm Even with her husband away, Calita feels happily, securely married. Why then should she not shelter an old admirer from the rain? Jack London, To Build a Fire Seventy-five degrees below zero. Alone ecept for one mistrustful wolf dog, a man finds himself battling a relentless force. Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark A young man from Buenos Aires is trapped by a flood on an isolated ranch. To pass the time, he reads the Gospel to a family with unforeseen results. Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets A young woman flies with her father to China to meet two half sisters she never knew eisted. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT SETTING CHECKLIST: Writing About AND STYLE TONE STYLE DICTION Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place All by himself each night, the old man lingers in the bright cafe. What does he need more than brandy? William Faulkner, Barn Burning This time when Ab Snopes wields his blazing torch, his son Sarty faces a dilemma: whether to obey or defy the vengeful old man. IRONY Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace A woman enjoys one night of luury-and then spends years of her life paying for it. Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name." WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT TONE AND STYLE CHECKLIST: FOR REVIEW 6 THEME PLOT VERSUS THEME summarizing the THEME FINDING THE THEME Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path The new headmaster of the village school was determined to fight superstition, but the villagers did not agree. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street Does where we live tell what we are? A little girl dreams of a new house, but things don't always turn out the way we want them to. Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son A father has two sons. One demands his inheritance now and leaves to spend it with ruinous results. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison Bergeron Are you handsome? Off with your eyebrows! Are you brainy? Let a transmitter sound thought-shattering beeps inside your ear. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING TERMS FOR REVIEW 7 SYMBOL ALLEGORY SYMBOLS RECOGNIZING SYMBOLS John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums Fenced-in Elisa feels emotionally starved-then her life promises to blossom with the arrival of the scissors-grinding man. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper A doctor prescribes a "rest cure" for his wife after the birth of their child. The new mother tries to settle in to life in the isolated and mysterious country house they have rented for the summer. The cure proves worse than the disease in this Gothic classic. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Omelas is the perfect city. All of its inhabitants are happy. But everyone's prosperity depends on a hidden evil. Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Splintered and faded, the sinister black bo had worked its annual terror for longer than anyone in town could remember. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT SYMBOLS CHECKLIST: Writing About STORIES FOR FURTHER READING Sherman Aleie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoeni, Arizona The only one who can help Victor when his father dies is a childhood friend he's been avoiding for years. Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings John and Mary meet. What happens net? This witty eperimental story offers five different outcomes. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown 0 Urged on through deepening woods, a young Puritan sees-or dreams he sees-good villagers hasten toward a diabolic rite. O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi A young husband and wife find ingenious ways to buy each other Christmas presents, in the classic story that defines the word "irony." Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat Delia's hard work paid for her small house. Now her drunken husband Sykes has promised it to another woman. Ha Jin, Saboteur 0 When the police unfairly arrest Mr. Chiu, he hopes for justice. After witnessing their brutality, he quietly plans revenge. James Joyce, Araby If only he can find her a token, she might love him in return. As night falls, a Dublin boy hurries to make his dream come true. Franz Kafka, Before the Law A man from the country comes in search of the Law. He never guesses what will prevent him from finding it, in this modern parable. Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill Sundays had long brought joy to solitary Miss Brill, until one fateful day when she happened to share a bench with two lovers in the park. Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Alone in the house, Connie finds herself helpless before the advances of Arnold Friend, a spellbinding imitation teenager. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried What each soldier carried into the combat zone was largely determined by necessity, but each man's necessities differed. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Wanted: The Misfit, a cold-blooded killer. An ordinary family vacation leads to horror-and one moment of redeeming grace. Juan Rulfo, Tell Them Not to Kill Me! A violent episode from decades past catches up with an old man. Will he be saved from the firing squad? Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House Whatever hour you woke, a door was shutting. From room to room the ghostly couple walked, hand in hand. Poetry Talking with Kay Ryan Paraphrase William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Lyric Poetry Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Narrative Poetry Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence Robert Frost, "Out, Out-" DRAMATIC POETRY Robert Browning, My Last Duchess DIDACTIC POETRY WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT PARAPHRASING William Stafford, Ask Me William Stafford, A Paraphrase of "Ask Me" CHECKLIST: Writing a Paraphrase TOPICS FOR WRITING ON PARAPHRASING TERMS FOR REVIEW 10 LISTENING TO A VOICE TONE Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Stephen Crane, The Wayfarer Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles Weldon Kees, For My Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal Anonymous, Dog Haiku Langston Hughes, Theme for English B Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow IRONY Robert Creeley, Oh No W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig Thomas Hardy, The Workbo FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY Amy Uyematsu, Deliberate Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT FOR REVIEW 11 WORDS LITERAL MEANING: WHAT A POEM SAYS FIRST William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say DICTION John Masefield, Cargoes John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You THE VALUE OF A DICTIONARY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath Kay Ryan, That Will to Divest J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Samuel Menashe, Bread Carl Sandburg, Grass WORD CHOICE AND WORD ORDER Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town Anonymous, Carnation Milk Gina Valdes, English con Salsa William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold 0 William Wordsworth, Mutability Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT DICTION TERMS FOR REVIEW 12 SAYING AND SUGGESTING DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION William Blake, London Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock Robert Frost, Fire and Ice Diane Thiel, The Minefield Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual/Bilingue Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION CHECKLIST: Writing About What a Poem Says and Suggests TOPICS FOR WRITING ON DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION TERMS FOR REVIEW 13 IMAGERY Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel IMAGERY T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence Jean Toomer, Reapers Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty ABOUT HAIKU Arakida Moritake, The falling flower Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell Taniguchi Buson, Moonrise on mudflats Kobayashi Issa, only one guy Kobayashi Issa, Cricket HAIKU FROM JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountain Suiko Matsushita, Cosmos in bloom Hakuro Wada, Even the croaking of frogs Neiji Ozawa, The war-this year CONTEMPORARY HAIKU Nick Virgilio, The Old Neighborhood Lee Gurga, Visitor's Room Jennifer Brutschy, Born Again Adelle Foley, Learning to Shave FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY John Keats, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art Tami Haaland, Lipstick William Carlos Williams, El Hombre Li Po, Drinking Alone by Moonlight Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT IMAGERY CHECKLIST: Writing About Imagery TOPICS FOR SPEAK FIGURATIVELY? Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? METAPHOR AND SIMILE Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand Sylvia Plath, Metaphors N. Scott Momaday, Simile Craig Raine, A Martian Sends Margaret Atwood, You fit into me Timothy Steele, Epitaph Dana Gioia, Money Carl Sandburg, Fog FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY Robert Frost, The Secret Sits Kay Ryan, Turtle Emily Bronte, Love and Friendship John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT METAPHORS CHECKLIST: Writing About Metaphors TOPICS FOR WRITING ON William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus? Edgar Allan Poe, from Ulalume William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal ALLITERATION AND ASSONANCE Frances Cornford, The Watch Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls RIME Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur Robert Frost, Desert Places How to read a POEM ALOUD Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT A POEM'S SOUND CHECKLIST: Writing About a Poem's Sound STRESSES AND PAUSES STRESS AND Meaning line endings Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break Dorothy Parker, Resume METER Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums! WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT RHYTHM CHECKLIST: Scanning a Poem value of form FORMAL PATTERNS Ernest Dowson, "Days of Wine and Roses" John Donne, Song ("Go and catch a falling star") ballads Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham THE SONNET William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet Sherman Aleie, The Facebook Sonnet THE EPIGRAM Sir John Harrington, Of Treason Langston Hughes, Two Somewhat Different Epigrams OTHER FORMS Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask 0 Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT A SONNET CHECKLIST: Writing About a Sonnet TOPICS FOR WRITING ON closed form TERMS FOR REVIEW 18 OPEN FORM Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway FREE VERSE E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill 's William Carlos Williams, The Dance Stephen Crane, The Heart Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird PROSE POETRY Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY E. E. Cummings, in Just- Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red Langston Hughes, I, Too WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT FREE VERSE TERMS FOR REVIEW 19 SYMBOL THE MEANINGS OF A SYMBOL T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork IDENTIFYING SYMBOLS Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It ALLEGORY Matthew, The Parable of the Good Seed George Herbert, Redemption Antonio Machado, Proverbios y Cantares (I) Translated by Dana Gioia, Traveler Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY Mary Oliver, Wild Geese Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT SYMBOLS FOR REVIEW 20 MYTH AND NARRATIVE The subjects and uses OF MYTH origins OF MYTH Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us H.D., Helen ARCHETYPE Louise Bogan, Medusa A. E. Stallings, First Love: A Quiz PERSONAL MYTH William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Diane Thiel, Memento Mori in Middle School Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus MYTH AND POPULAR CULTURE Anne Seton, Cinderella WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT MYTH CHECKLIST: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Jose Garcia Villa, Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Bishop, Joy Harjo, Octavio Paz, Denise Levertov, Lucille Clifton, Charles Simic, - 22 POEMS FOR FURTHER READING Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You Sherman Aleie, The Powwow at the End of the World Anonymous (Navajo chant), Last Words of the Prophet Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach W. H. Auden, Musee des Beau Arts Elizabeth Bishop, One Art William Blake, The Tyger Gwendolyn Brooks, the mother Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Charles Bukowski, Dostoevsky Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceanera Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Billy Collins, Care and Feeding Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death John Donne, Death be not proud John Donne, The Flea T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Robert Frost, Mending Wall Robert Frost, Birches Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain Seamus Heaney, Digging George Herbert, Easter Wings Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes, Harlem [Dream Deferred] Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Robinson Jeffers, Fire on the Hills Ha Jin, Missed Time Ben Jonson, On My First Son Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad D. H. Lawrence, Piano Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to love America Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Claude McKay, The Harlem Dancer Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent Pablo Neruda, We are Many Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Sylvia Plath, Daddy Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy Christina Rossetti, Song William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astonomer Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! William Carlos Williams, Spring and All William Carlos Williams, Queen-Anne's-Lace William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Mary Sidney Wroth, In this strange labyrinth William Butler Yeats, He wishes for the Cloths of heaven William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old DRAMA Talking with David Ives 23. READING A PLAY THEATRICAL CONVENTIONS Elements of a Play Susan Glaspell, Trifles Was Minnie Wright to blame for the death of her husband? While the menfolk try to unravel a mystery, two women in the kitchen turn up revealing clues. Analyzing Trifles WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT A PLAY CHECKLIST: Writing About a Play TOPICS FOR COMEDY TRAGEDY Christopher Marlowe, Scene from Doctor Faustus (Act 2, Scene 1) In this scene from the classic drama, a brilliant scholar sells his soul to the devil. How smart is that? COMEDY Oscar Wilde, Scene from The Importance of Being Earnest (Act 1, Scene 1-Lady Bracknell Interviews Her Daughter's Suitor) Lady Bracknell is no softie when interviewing a potential future son-in-law. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT COMEDY CHECKLIST: Writing About Comedy TOPICS FOR WRITING ABOUT TRAGEDY TOPICS FOR WRITING ABOUT COMEDY TERMS FOR REVIEW 25. THE OEDIPUS THE KING Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Translated by David Grene) The dark story of Oedipus is considered by many to be the greatest eample of classical Greek tragedy. WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT GREEK TRAGEDY CHECKLIST: Writing About Greek Drama TOPICS FOR WRITING ON PICTURING OTHELLO William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice Here is a story of jealousy, that "green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on"-of a passionate, suspicious man and his blameless wife, of a serpent masked as a friend. WRITING EFFECTIVELY UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE CHECKLIST: Writing About Shakespeare TOPICS FOR WRITING ON shakespeare 27. THE MODERN THEATER REALISM Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, revised by Viktoria Michelsen) The founder of modern drama portrays a troubled marriage. Helmer, the bank manager, regards his wife Nora as a "little featherbrain"-not knowing the truth may shatter his smug world. Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Painfully shy and retiring, shunning love, Laura dwells in a world as fragile as her collection of tiny figurines-until one memorable night a gentleman comes to call. Tennessee Williams on Writing, How to Stage The Glass Menagerie EPERIMENTAL DRAMA Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer Nineteen-year-old Margarita Suarez wants to win a Southern California distance swimming race. Is her family behind her? Quite literally! WRITING EFFECTIVELY THINKING ABOUT DRAMATIC REALISM CHECKLIST: Writing About a Realist Play TOPICS READING David Henry Hwang, The Sound of a Voice A strange man arrives at a solitary woman's home in the remote countryside. As they fall in love, they discover disturbing secrets about one another's past. David Henry Hwang on Writing, Multicultural Theater Jane Martin, Pomp and Circumstance The King interviews a musician for the position of court composer Brighde Mullins, Click A long-distance phone call leads to darkly comic misunderstandings between this man and woman. August Wilson, Fences A proud man's love for his family is choked by his rigidity and self-righteousness, in this powerful drama by one of the great American playwrights of our time. WRITING 29. WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE READ ACTIVELY Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay PLAN YOUR ESSAY PREWRITING: GENERATE IDEAS AND ISSUES Sample Student Prewriting Eercises - DEVELOP YOUR ARGUMENT STRENGTHEN YOUR ARGUMENT: RHETORICAL APPEALS Logical Argumentation and Evidence Emotional Argumentation Credibility: Tone, Balance, and Organization CHECKLIST: Developing an Argument DRAFT YOUR ARGUMENT Sample Student Paper, Rough Draft REVISE YOUR ARGUMENT STUDENT ARGUMENT PAPER Sample Student Paper, Argument WHAT'S YOUR Sample Student Paper, Eplication Analysis Sample Student Paper, Analysis Comparison and Contrast Sample Student Paper, Comparison and Contrast Response Paper Sample Student Response Paper the form of your finished paper TOPICS FOR WRITING ABOUT FICTION TOPICS FOR WRITING ABOUT POETRY TOPICS FOR WRITING ABOUT DRAMA 30. WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER BROWSE THE RESEARCH CHOOSE A TOPIC BEGIN YOUR RESEARCH Reliable Web Sources Print Resources Online Databases CHECKLIST: Finding Reliable Sources Visual Images CHECKLIST: Using Visual Images EVALUATE YOUR SOURCES Trustworthy Resources Build Your Paper's Credibility CHECKLIST: Evaluating Your Sources ORGANIZE YOUR ORGANIZE YOUR PAPER WRITE AND REVISE MAINTAIN ACADEMIC INTEGRITY What Is Plagiarism? Papers for Sale Are Papers that "Fail" A Warning Against Internet Plagiarism ACKNOWLEDGE ALL SOURCES Using Quotations Citing Ideas DOCUMENT SOURCES USING MLA STYLE List of Sources Parenthetical References Works-Cited List Citing Print Sources in MLA Style Citing Web Sources in MLA Style Sample List of Works Cited Reference Guide for mla Citations Literary Credits Photo Credits Index of Major Themes Index of Authors and Titles Index of Literary Terms
