RESEARCH PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
HOW SOPHOCLES? OEDIPUS EXEMPLIFIES OR REFUTES ARISTOTLE?S DEFINITION OF A TRAGIC HERO.
You will write a 1500-words (about 5?7-pages) essay that addresses one of the plays from the Drama Unit. A minimum of six citations, must be including, from your text book, which is your primary source:
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Edition (6th Edition)
by X. J. Kennedy, and Dana Gioia
And at least five secondary scholarly sources, is required for this assignment. Before you begin writing the essay, carefully read the guidelines for developing your paper topic that are given below. Review the research paper Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information, plan the direction of this essay, and organize your ideas by developing a one-page thesis statement, outline, draft, and bibliography for your research paper. Format the thesis statement and the outline in a single Word document using APA style. You must include a title page, thesis statement, and outline, followed by the research essay itself and your correctly documented sources page.
Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic
Chapters 40 and 41 provide helpful pointers for writing about plays and for developing research papers. Be sure to review both chapters thoroughly before you begin doing any further work for this assignment.
Write an essay explaining how Sophocles? Oedipus exemplifies or refutes Aristotle?s definition of a tragic hero. Review Chapter 33 in the textbook for the background and overview of Aristotle?s concept of tragedy/the tragic hero and drama. This chapter also contains critical information on Sophocles and the play Oedipus. You may use any of the critical material as a secondary source, but remember to cite it correctly.
Finding Scholarly Sources
For this essay, you are only permitted to use academic sources/scholarly journals. Resources such as Wikipedia, 123Essays, Spark Notes, wikisource, studymode, Cliff Notes, and Masterplots (or similar resources) are not scholarly and will not be permitted in your papers