Arthur Rimbaud’s selected poems

Research Topic Proposal

In your research paper topic submission, you will provide a paragraph that clearly identifies your topic and proposed thesis. You should also include why you want to write on the topic you’ve chosen. Your submission will be graded on the following rubric:

Topic

 You must provide the author’s name and title of the work that you will be analyzing in your research paper.

 You may choose one of the following works as your topic:

1. Tartuffe by Moliere

2. Candide by Voltaire

3. Confessions (Part One) by Rousseau

4. Faust (Part I) by Goethe

5. Charles Baudelaire’s selected poems in the textbook

6. Arthur Rimbaud’s selected poems in the textbook

7. Ruben Dario’s selected poems in the textbook

8. Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky

9. T.S. Eliot’s selected poems in the textbook

10. William Butler Yeats’s selected poems in the textbook

11. The Metamorphosis by Kafka

12. “Chike’s School Days” by Achebe

 Once you’ve decided on your topic, you cannot change it. This will help you stay on track as your work on your paper.

Quality of Thesis

 Your thesis must be clear and arguable.

 When you write your thesis in your paper, you should avoid using phrases like “I think” and “I believe”; however, in the drafting phase, these phrases may help you organize your ideas.

 As you research, your ideas may change; therefore, you may modify your thesis as you work on the paper.

Mechanics, Grammar, and Punctuation

 All written assignments should be mechanically and grammatically correct with proper punctuation.

 For more information on each of these, you should view the Purdue OWL’s General Writing Resources page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/.

Structure

 Your submission must be written as a paragraph with at least 150 words