Guidelines for Analytical Paper on Crime and Punishment
You must write a literary analysis involving library and Internet research on Crime and Punishment. While bringing in library and Internet research to support the arguments you make in your literary analysis will be very important, the best way to think about this paper is that you are doing research on Crime and Punishment itself; that is, I want you to select an idea, theme, literary term, character, or some other appropriate concept and then do a thorough, systematic, detailed analysis of that concept as it appears in CP.
The analysis must be 1,750 to 2,000 words (6-8 typed pages) and the primary focus should be on your interpretation of CP rather than just what the critics say. At the same time, you must include in your analysis references to at least seven outside, scholarly sources (this does not include encyclopedias or trivial, non-academic sources like Cliff Notes and so on). For instance, if you want to research how characterization is accomplished in CP, you should begin by defining characterization and by noting the four distinct ways characters are developed by an author, then select particular characters and show how Dostoyevsky has chosen to develop those characters, make a judgment about what is the best way to develop a character (upon what basis would you make this judgment?), and make a case for how effectively Dostoyevsky is in creating characters.
Regardless, remember that your main task is to explain as clearly and fully as possible your thesis sentence; that is, you must attempt to bring out the significance of your thesis by analyzing dramatic irony, metaphor, or characterization (or alliteration, simile, paradox, irony, personification, imagery, meter, rhyme scheme, theme, biblical influence/allusion, and so on). The paper should have at least a paragraph of introduction with a clearly stated thesis. In the body of the paper you should quote freely from CP and to a lesser degree from scholarly sources. Students who do poorly on these analyses most often fail to quote specific passages from the texts being analyzed in order to support arguments or points of development. In addition, there is no substitute for careful, coherent, and relevant research; vague, generalized, non-specific, “off-the-cuff” remarks are not acceptable.
Finally, I will evaluate your paper according to three criteria in descending order of importance. First and foremost, I will note if your content is meaningful, thoughtful, and logical. I will look to see if you are “shooting the bull.” If so, I will not hesitate to mark it as such. Second, I will study your paper to see if it is well-researched, well-documented, well-organized, neat, and easy to read. If you are uncertain about proper documentation techniques, refer to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Lastly, I will check the grammatical accuracy of you paper.
All papers must be sent as email attachments; late papers will lose one letter grade for each day late.
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