ENG 102 Research
Strategy Guide: The Third Paper (A Raisin
in the Sun)
What Your Assignment
Needs: 20% of your assignment’s grade will come from your integration of
academic, peer-reviewed research into your essay.
What are academic
sources? Academic, peer-reviewed sources are those that come from scholarly
journals, books, or sources (these are, by definition, non-profit, and contain
bibliographies and references to other scholarship).
How do I cite my
work? You will use MLA
style (click here).
Steps for finding and
incorporating research
1.
Go to academic search engines and enter in
keywords related to the assignment. This will probably be A Raisin in the Sun, but, given the findings, may also include
other keywords from your topic, such as race, gender, and class.
2.
When you find an academic source, first skim it
to see how relevant it is. You’ll want to read the introduction, the first
sentence of each paragraph, and the conclusion to get a full sense of its
relevance, but you may know rather quickly if it’s useful or not.
3.
When you find a useful source, begin to take
notes. In general, and for the essay, you will need to know the major
arguments, the main ways that source uses evidence, and several potential
direct quotations potentially useful to incorporate into your essay.
4.
You will ultimately identify a direct quotation
that contains an idea that supports or challenges or deepens one of the main
claims you’re making in the paper.
Incorporating research material into your essay
1.
After your thesis statement in your
introduction, you will alter the reader to your sources and how you use them in
your essay.
2.
One method of incorporating the source is to
create individual paragraphs that directly deal with your scholarship. You may
also place the scholarship into one larger paragraph. If you do this, you will
need a topic sentence claim that states the relationship between this research
and the claim or claims you’re making in the paper. Remember, the research may
support or challenge the claims you’re making. If it’s a challenge, you will
need to defend your claims against the challenge of the research (this is
called ‘counter-argumentation.’)
3.
Another method of incorporating research is to
integrate the research ideas directly into the paragraphs supporting your
thesis, which already contain the textual evidence you’re using to back up your
thesis claims.
4.
No matter how or where you incorporate research,
you will need to introduce the source to your reader by summarizing the main
arguments of the piece, detailing how the source uses evidence, directly
quoting from the source, and paraphrase and explain the significance of the
quote.
Suggested
Research Search Engines
You will find most of what you need to know
on the LaGuardia Library Homepage.
Suggested
Sources: Getting started
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Title: Readings on A raisin in the
sun / Lawrence Kappel, book editor.
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Title: Understanding A raisin in
the sun : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents /
Lynn Domina.
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Title: Understanding blackness through
performance [electronic resource] ; contemporary arts and the representation of
identity / Edited by Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine, Jean-Paul Rocchi.
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Title: Staging the slums, slumming
the stage [electronic resource] ; class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in
American theatre, 1890-1916 / J. Chris Westgate.
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Author: Healey, Joseph F., 1945-
author.
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Title: Race, ethnicity, gender,
& class : the sociology of group conflict and change / Joseph F. Healey,
Christopher Newport University, Eileen O'Brien, Saint Leo University.
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Title: Feminism is for everybody :
passionate politics / bell hooks.
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Title: Race, class, and gender in
the United States : an integrated study / [edited by] Paula S. Rothenberg,
Senior Fellow, The Murphy Institute, CUNY, with Kelly S. Mayhew, San Diego
City College.
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Author: Hooks, Bell.
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Title: We real cool : Black men and
masculinity / Bell Hooks.
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