F Scott Fitzgerald And The “American Dream” in The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald And The “American Dream” in The Great Gatsby

The paper should be around 1200 words, not counting a supplementary works cited page. (50 fewer or more words will result in losing points.) MLA information is in your handbook, found at OWL Purdue or found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Y31UrG2q4 Sample MLA literary research paper: http://www.unm.edu/~aobermei/Eng200/samplepapers/assignment5benjamin/index.html Topics: The focus can be of your own choosing. You may choose to research a person, but this paper is NOT a biographical sketch. A bit of the introduction certainly can mention background information, but the focus of the paper should be on that person’s literature. MY TOPIC IS F SCOTT FITZGERALD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THE GREAT GATSBY. BASICALLY, HOW HE INCORPIRATES THE “AMERICAN DREAM” IN THE GREAT GATSBY. I CHOSE THE EASIEST POSSIBLE TOPIC Research Guidelines: THE GREAT GATSBY BOOK SHOULD BE THE MAIN SOURCE. Use approximately 4 academic sources (Try Galileo first for journal articles https://www.galileo.usg.edu/scholar/mgsc/search/ –Begin with MLA International Bibliography (literature and language)) to back up your ideas. (A good guideline is that you should have around the same number of sources as you do pages.) Use summarized material and quotations from these sources and from the works in The Great Gatsby book; be sure to use quotation marks around the author’s or the critic’s words if they are exactly from the source. Remember that even if you are summarizing a critic’s ideas, you still need to give that critic credit through the use of internal parenthetical documentation—something that is ESSENTIAL for MLA formatting. Do NOT use Wikipedia, other non-academic encyclopedias, or essay help/literature help (like Sparknotes, Shmoop, Masterplots, Cliffs Notes, etc) as a source. When using Galileo, be sure to check “Linked Full Text” for articles. This way, you will be given the entire article, not just an excerpt. Also, check off peer-reviewed articles because they make certain that the included information is valid. Galileo journal article-type sources are the most reliable, best articles. BUT DO NOT USE Masterplots which IS on Galileo. Feel free to have me check out websites to be certain that the website is academically based. For example, you may use poets.org, but don’t use something like “John’s Totally Cool Poetry Page.” Always be wary of Internet sources. General Formal Writing Extras: Review the sheet on Common Grammar Errors. You are responsible for using correct grammar. Do NOT use 2nd person/ YOU or 1st person/ I in formal writing. Stay in third person: “the author, the reader, the public…” Stay in present tense when writing about the literature: “Faulkner’s narrator encounters many trials,” not ENCOUNTERED. USE spell check and grammar check. Remember, however, that they are NOT full-proof.