Research Topics for English

Affirmative Action- King
Civil Rights - King
Anonymous egg and sperm donation- Ehrenreich
Bioethics and cloning - Ehrenreich
Government -Jefferson
Totalitarianism- Arendt
Cultural values in the United States- Woolf
Women's rights- Woolf
Genetic engineering- Ehrenreich
Nature- Thoreau
Civil Disobedience- Thoreau
Men and women in relationship- Horney

You need to write a 7-9 page paper excluding your Works Cited page following MLA format.

You will use MLA format for your in-text citations, Works Cited and any other evidence you use as part of your paper.

You must use at least seven documented library sources. Your eight source will be your anthology, White Teeth or the Barbara Ehrenreich article that we used for our midterm- your primary source in other words. At least threeof these should be from a book or eBook related to your topic which you will access from the library as a hard copy book; threemore should be from a scholarly journal or article which you may access online from the PCC library online; onemore could be from a podcast, a weblog, an online video clip, radio or television program, lecture or public address, map or chart, cartoon, work of art, sound recording, published interview, government document, or personal interview. (How to correctly cite these sources is available to you in your Writer's Reference pages -p. 439-41).

You must follow MLA format for any long or block quotes you may use as well as all of your other quotes. You should not use more than two block quotes in your paper. See page 515 of Writer's Reference for a directory to in-text citation models and for block quotes-------
*** You may use two block quotes in your paper. These could be from your primary source or an article, book or other. However, the quote should not be longer than 6 typed lines in MLA format. If you choose NOT to have two block quotes, you may use those 12 lines as 6 more 2-line quotes.

*** You must have 2 2- line quotations from each of your sources in your paper- both primary and secondary. These quotations should not be longer than 2 typed lines in MLA format.

Please ensure that you visit the Research Paper page of your English 1A CANVAS class pages for more helpful guidelines including the PCC rubric and a planner to help you outline your research as you begin your work on this project. You should also use the expertise of the Writing Center tutors to help you with your thesis and organization. You should also consider submitting your draft to Smarthinking to ensure you are on the right track.