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Please Revise and edit my Paper attached to make it a final draft. should be 5-7 pages when done. Please review
The Portfolio Project is designed to require you to expand your understanding of Things Fall Apart by combining knowledge and application of content with your own interpretation and judgment. For the Portfolio Project, you will write a research paper about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, supplementing your own interpretation with information from three to five other sources. Your interpretation of this novel should reflect an international perspective. Information about planning your research paper and conducting your research can be found in the lecture material for Module 5. The Portfolio Project is due in Week 8.
Essay Formatting Requirements:
- 5-7 pages (not including title or reference page)
- Minimum of three sources (excluding the novel)—must be credible, authored sources; anonymous websites or sites like Wikipedia are not acceptable as one of your three main sources.
- Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-pt font.
- Title Page: for an explanation of how to formulate a title page in APA, see The Purdue OWL (Links to an external site.)(scroll down to “Title Page”), or use the APA template provided in the CSU-Global Library.
- Insert page numbers in the top right hand corner.
- Include a reference page.
- Use CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.) for correct APA formatting in the paper and on the reference page.
- Your final paper will be graded not only based on content but also on the quality of your writing, syntax, and grammar. Please be sure to pay special attention to the quality of your written work. It is highly recommended that you closely proofread your assignment prior to submission. In addition, you are again expected to provide support for your arguments based upon both the required and recommended readings for the course, your research, and any relevant points culled from the discussion boards. Review the Portfolio Rubric, located in the Module 8 folder.
- Finally, you will take the particular research question that you are developing as the thesis of your Portfolio Project and contextualize it in such a way as to convey an international or multicultural understanding of the novel. For example, if you are developing a cultural analysis of the novel, you will need to answer, as a part of your research thesis, how one culture develops in direct competition against the emergence of another foreign culture. Or, if you are developing a feminist analysis, you will need to answer, as a part of your research question, how one culture’s treatment of women changes when confronted by another culture’s differing attitude toward women. Or, if you are doing a direct compare/contrast analysis, you will need to directly compare specific aspects of one culture against another culture.
- In other words, any critical perspective from which you frame your thesis and overall paper needs to convey a sharper international or multicultural understanding of the novel and should be reflected in your outline and reference list.
Teachers Comments:
Here’s your Roadmap to Revision:
1. The thesis needs to be revised to make a claim. Right now, it simply states what the book is about. Here’s a way to make it a claim instead of a statement. WHY does Achebe depict this class? What is his aim, goal, or motivation? I also noted another thesis option in your second body paragraph. Review the options and revise your thesis according to the most interesting option.
2. Most of your paragraphs need to make an argument. They need to make an argument about how a particular literary element used by Achebe supports your thesis. Let’s say you want to argue that Okonkwo’s downfall is directly related to the British missionaries. Your topic sentence for the paragraph on Christianity might look something like this:
One way Achebe directly blames Christianity for Okonkwo’s downfall is by using imagery to show that Christianity….etc.
Revise all of your topic sentences for your body paragraphs so that you are making “mini arguments” that support your thesis.
Largely what you are focusing on is stating what the culture clashes prove about your thesis. The topic sentences are there. They just need to reference the literary element and what you think the particular clash proves about your thesis.
3. Make sure that you are including in text citations throughout the essay. I would guess that almost every body paragraph should include some kind of in text citation for Achebe’s book. Each paragraph should likely also include information from and an in text citation for an external source that supports your argument. Note that even if you don’t quote, you need to include an in text citation for paraphrases.