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Title: This eight-unit guide will help you conduct research and write an effective essay in WRT 201 and/or literature courses.


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This eight-unit guide will help you conduct
research and write an effective essay in WRT 201
and/or literature courses.
  • Literary Research Paper

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I. From Topic To Thesis
Pat, the student who will be your guide, has been
given a research assignment topic from which she
will create a working thesis.
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Table of Contents
  • Pats Assignment 4
  • Selecting a Topic 5-6
  • Creating a Thesis 7-8
  • Pats Thesis Question 9
  • Pats Tentative Thesis 10
  • Pats Next Step Library Visit
    Unit II

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Pats Assignment Topic
  • Write a 7-9 page research paper that explores one
    aspect of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans story The
    Yellow Wallpaper. State your thesis clearly and
    provide two or three supporting ideas.
  • Cite at least five sources using MLA format.
  • Formulate a thesis statement.
  • Go to the library to do research.
  • Plan the essay in the form of an outline.
  • Write the essay and then revise it.

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This is an interesting story, but which topic to
choose?
The rest cure?
Hysteria?
The yellow wallpaper?
Gothic elements in the story?
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The narrator sees a woman crawling around in it.
The wallpaper must be importantits in the
title. . .
The wallpaper has a special meaning there must
be a lot written about symbols in the story. . .
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Ways to Explore a Topic
  • Formulate a thesis.
  • Make an outline of ideas to support the thesis.
  • Cluster/map ideas freely.
  • Do a free write to put some ideas in writing.

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What is a thesis?
A thesis asserts the point or makes the argument
the paper will prove. An effective thesis is an
overall umbrella for all the ideas in the paper.
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How to Create a Thesis
  • The best way to create a thesis is to ask a
    central research question.
  • What is the meaning of the yellow wallpaper?
  • The answer to the question is the thesis.
  • Also see
  • Professor Jonaitis/Davis From Topic to Thesis
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab

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Pats Working Thesis
The yellow wallpaper in Gilmans story seems to
symbolize repression of women...
I need to do some research now! On to the
library!
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Pats Scratch Outline
  • Meanings of Wallpaper
  • Wallpaper as Prison (physical)kept in room
  • Husband as jailer
  • Bars
  • Social Repression
  • No relatives, friends or outside contacts
  • Women expected to be domesticmarriage, home,
    children
  • Wallpaper as domestic
    confinement?
  • Narrators view of wallpapersymbol of her
    resistance/insanity (?)

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Pats Cluster/Map
wallpaper pattern complex like the womans
confused thoughts
What about John?
wallpaper as prison bars
Symbolism of wallpaper
symbol of the Cult of True Womanhood
Wallpaper symbolizes the home because it is a
part of home décor
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Pats Free Write
  • The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is a
    prisoner in her own house. Her husband is a
    doctor and he makes sure that the narrator
    follows the rest cure to help her recover from a
    nervous disorder that is probably post partum
    depression. He doesnt seem to care about her as
    a human being. He treats her like a child and
    doesnt value her opinions. She is cut off from
    friends and relatives that she enjoys. He may
    think he is doing the right thing, but he is
    really an abusive husband. The removal of all
    intellectual and social stimulation is probably
    what drives the narrator crazy. Because she
    doesnt have anything else to do, she stares at
    the wallpaper until she starts seeing things.
    Obviously, the paper is a symbol of her
    imprisonment by her husband, who represents the
    repression of marriage and womens social roles
    in the 19th century. Women could not vote and
    were expected to marry and be wives and mothers,
    not work outside the home. They were stuck like
    the woman crawling in the wallpaper. I would
    have probably gone crazy, too, if I had been in
    that narrators position.
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