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Some Points about Writing the Term Paper
1. Make certain that works cited formats adhere to MLA
guidelines. Note that the 2nd and 3rd
lines are done with a hanging indent.
A book by one author:
Commager, Henry Steele. Theodore Parker. Beacon, 1947.
An essay in a collection:
Leavis, Q. D. “Hawthorne as Poet.” Hawthorne: A Collection of
Critical Essays, edited by A.N.
Kaul. Prentice, 1966, pp. 25-63.
An article in a journal, found in a scholarly online database:
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-
Century England.” Historical Journal,
vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173-96. ProQuest,
doi:10.1017/S0018246X06005966. Accessed
27 May 2009.
Look in The MLA Handbook for further information; you are
expected to provide correctly-
formatted works cited entries for your papers. Points will be
taken off if the works cited page is
incorrect.
2. Make certain quotations are verbatim, punctuated properly,

and introduced with an
independent clause. Immediately after the quotation, a comment
is needed before you
proceed to your next point.
3. Long quotations (four lines or more) should be blocked,
quote marks omitted.
4. Short quotations (less than four lines) should display
quotation marks.
5. ALL QUOTATIONS SHOULD BE CITED
PARENTHETICALLY.
6. Open .PDF files of articles in databases so that you will have
page numbers to cite
parenthetically.
7. In citing works of literature, cite line numbers for poems;
cite page numbers for stories and
essays; and cite the act, scene, and lines for plays.
8. Your thesis statement should be very specific—it should
contain key words/phrases which
anticipate each and every body paragraph/section.
9. Mention names of the critics liberally. It is weak to write
many critics feel or a critic has said.
Use the name and provide a quotation. Never refer to an author
or critic by first name alone.

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10. Refer to titles correctly, using quotation marks or italics as
required. Look in Harbrace
Essentials.
11. You is unacceptable in a formal college paper. One may
write, however, Hawthorne
addresses the reader . . . .
12. Vary your verbs. Instead of says or tells, try discusses,
explains, comments, remarks, replies,
retorts, suggests, claims, concurs, declares, asserts.
13. Do not use contractions; they are informal.
14. Use different from instead of different than in a formal
college paper.
15. Do not use abbreviations such as e.g. Instead, write for
example.
16. Do not write the reason is because, which is redundant.
17. Do not begin a sentence with Well.

18. Avoid utility words such as nice, funny, and great.
19. Avoid clichés such as what goes around comes around.
Remember that a research paper is like any other paper—with
an introduction and thesis, body
paragraphs, and a conclusion. The research is only to SUPPORT
your ideas; some think that
research alone constitutes the grade—not so—you still must
write a logical, well-written, well-
documented, grammatically-correct paper!
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Excellent Above Average Average Below Average Unacceptable
Points 5 4 2 1 0
Understanding
and Evaluating
Ethical
Choices
Student thoroughly discusses at
least two sides of an ethical
choice to be made.
Student thoroughly discusses one
side and partially describes
another side of an ethical choice
to be made.
Student partially explains two
sides of an ethical choice to be
made.
Student attempts to explain only
one side of an ethical choice to be
made.
Student is unable to articulate
an ethical choice to be made.
Making and
Justifying
Ethical
Choices
Student states a position on the
issue with more detailed
explanation and/or resons for the
position and addresses objections

to their position.
Student states a poition on the
issue with more detailed
explanation and/or resons for the
position.
issue, but only provides limited
explanation and/or reasons for the
position.
isse without providing any
reasons for the position.
Student does not take a clear
ethical position on the issue.
Consequences Student identifies consequences
and demonstrates a sophisticated
understanding of the scope,
complexity, and/or magnitude of
the consequences.
Student identifies consequences
and demonstrates a moderate
understanding of the scope,
complexity, and/or magnitude of
the consequences.
Student identifies consequences
of the choices, but demonstrates a
limited understanding of the
scope, complexity, and/or
magnitude of the consequences.

Student identifies the obvious
consequences of each choice.
Student does not identify any
consequences of the choices
available.
Philosophical
Engagement
The student makes significant
reference to at least two thinkers
disucessed in the course so far in
their paper.
The student makes significant
reference to at least one thinker
and limited reference to another
thinker discussed in the course so
far.
The student makes limited
reference to two thinkers
discussed in the course so far or
significant reference to a single
thinker.
The student makes limited
reference to one thinker discussed
in the course.
The student makes no reference
to any thinkers discussed in the
course so far.

Structure and
Clarity
The paper is clearly structured,
with an introduction, several body
paragraphs, and a clear
conclusion. Paragraph breaks
make sense and use transitions.
All sentences are complete and
grammatical. All words are used
correctly. Paper has been spell-
checked and proofread, and has
no errors.
The paper is clearly structured,
with an introduction, several body
paragraphs, and a clear
conclusion. Paragraph breaks
make sense and use transitions.
All sentences are complete and
grammatical. All words are used
correctly. Paper has been spell-
checked and proofread, and has
no errors.
There is a clear introduction and
conclusion, but few paragraph
breaks in the body and little use
of transitions. Sentences are
mostly complete and
grammatical. Most words are
used correctly. Paper has been
spell-checked and proofread, and
has very few minor errors.
The paper lacks either an

introduction or a conclusion, or
the body is a single paragraph.
Several sentences are incomplete
and/or ungrammatical. Many
words are used incorrectly. Paper
has several spelling errors.
There is no structure. The
paper is a single paragraph.
Many sentences are incomplete
and/or ungrammatical. Paper
has many spelling errors. Many
words are used incorrectly.
Reading is difficult due to lack
of proper grammar and syntax.
Prof. Norwood's Midterm Paper Rubric
PHIL 1301: Introduction to Philosophy
Prof. Norwood
Midterm Paper Prompt
DUE October 21st 2019
Students are required to submit a 750-word (minimum) midterm
paper, which will count for 25% of their final
course grade. The student will present a situation requiring an
ethical choice made by an individual drawn from
the real world (i.e. a news story), consider the possible choices
available and their consequences, take a position

on the situation (i.e. state what choice they would make in the
same situation), and justify that choice. The
student must incorporate significant references to at least two
thinkers discussed in the course so far as part of
their evaluation of the situation requiring an ethical choice. The
paper will be graded according to the attached
rubric. The student should do the following:
1. Choose a news story involving an individual faced with an
ethical decision. Include a link to the
news story at the top of your first page.
2. Summarize the situation, the available choices, and the
consequences of those choices.
3. Take a position. In other words, make a choice.
4. Justify that choice with rational arguments. In other words,
explain why you would make that
choice.
5. Include significant references to at least two thinkers
discussed in class (from Unit 1 or Unit 2).
These references can be used in any part of the paper and
should demonstrate thoughtful engagement
with the philosophers and ideas encountered in this course.
Papers must be submitted through eCampus. Any student who
turns in plagiarized work for the midterm
paper will receive a failing grade for the course.
Students will receive 3 points of extra credit if they have the
writing lab look over their paper prior to the

due date and provide Prof. Norwood with proof of that meeting.
English 1302: Research Paper Assignment
The Assignment:
Write on one of the topics below dealing with A Doll’s House
by Henrik Ibsen:
1. Write a paper in which you analyze the character of Nora. In
terms of your thesis,
can you develop three aspects of Nora’s character? Think of
what defines Nora as
a person. What do the critics say about Nora? Quote from the
play AND from the
critics. [You will be listing four critical articles and the play as
a fifth source on
your Works Cited page for this topic.]
2. Write a paper in which you analyze the character of Torvald.
Does he love Nora?
Is his behavior reasonable or not? What do the critics say about
him? In terms of
your thesis, can you develop three aspects of Torvald’s
character? What defines
Torvald as a person? Quote from the play AND from the critics.
[You will be
listing four critical articles and the play as a fifth source on
your Works Cited
page for this topic.]

3. Write a paper that analyzes criticism on A Doll’s House. Use
the complete PMLA
essay by Joan Templeton in your essay (“The Doll House
Backlash: Criticism,
Feminism, and Ibsen”), plus three other articles from scholarly
journals. Quote
from all four critical articles. [You will be listing four critical
articles on the
Works Cited page for this topic. Should you quote from the play
also, you will list
the play as a fifth source.]
Format/Length: Your paper should be at least 1,000 words:
double-spaced, 12-pt. font,
MLA documentation. Save your file in Word (.docx or .doc) or
as a .PDF file.
Articles: For all topics, use FOUR critical articles from
professional journals, found at the
HCCS Library Databases (ProQuest, JSTOR, Academic Search
Complete).
Remember that all quotations, paraphrases, and summaries
MUST be cited in-
text. Cite an article by the author’s last name and the page:
(Templeton 28). The
last page of your paper should be a works cited page.
Finding Articles:
• In the HCCS Library website, look at databases such as
ProQuest, JSTOR,
Academic Search Complete, and Wilson OmniFile. These are
great databases in
which to conduct a search for articles. Remember that you are
looking for articles

in .PDF files.
• In doing your search, type in these search terms: Henrik Ibsen
AND A Doll’s
House. When browsing through the articles, look at as many as
possible. And
don’t overlook articles that might seem, at first glance, too
general; A Doll’s
House might not be in the article title, yet the article might deal
with the play
significantly. Additionally, articles may be found in collections
(bound in an
edited collection as a book, with a title page that reveals each
article by a different
author).
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• AVOID performance reviews, book reviews, magazine
articles, versions of the
play, or summaries of the play. Do NOT use encyclopedias or
abstracts. You may
NOT use sources such as encyclopedias, abstracts of articles,
Cliff’s Notes,
Monarch Notes, or series such as British Authors. Do NOT
search for sources by
using Yahoo or Google. (Needless to say, blogs and sites with
student papers are
TOTALLY unacceptable.)
• Articles should come from journals such as Modern Language
Quarterly, The
Explicator, Scandinavian Studies, The Theatre Journal, and

College English.
• Points will be deducted if you have used unacceptable,
unscholarly sources.
You should be aware of acceptable and nonacceptable sources
after receiving
comments on your Annotated Bibliography.
Plagiarism Policy: Any plagiarism, any failure to document
quotations, summaries,
and paraphrases (MLA documentation) will result in a zero on
the
assignment. Turnitin will provide a report as to the originality
of the paper. You
should be aware of the Honesty Policy stated on the Syllabus; it
is expected
that this paper is TOTALLY your own work of analysis and
writing—do
NOT consult information on the Internet in any fashion, and do
NOT
collaborate with friends/classmates.
Submission: Submit your file in the Assignment link in Eagle
Online Canvas.
Beginning the Writing Process:
• Once you have found your sources, take notes and highlight
important passages.
As you write your rough draft, include quotations, paraphrases,
and summaries
from sources—cite on a sentence-by-sentence basis as you write
the rough draft.
Remember that you need a thesis statement which lists the three
major points you

are going to develop in your paper.
• When citing quotes from A Doll’s House, cite the act number
and the page
parenthetically: (775; act 2).
• When quoting a brief passage from one character in the play,
identify the speaker
in your introduction to the quote. (Remember that long quotes
should be blocked.)
• IF you quote conversation between two characters, that quote
should be
BLOCKED—and then character names would be in all caps
before speeches (just
as displayed in your text).
• If you quote stage directions, note that they should be in
italics.
• You may use ellipses to omit any part of a speech (or stage
directions).
• INTRODUCE ALL QUOTES—with an independent clause
followed by a colon.
• When citing a quote from an article, cite the author’s last
name and the page:
(Templeton 29). Spell names of critics correctly. You do NOT
have to put the title
of the article inside your paragraph; such information should be
on the works
cited page. Open .PDF files so you will have page numbers to
cite; do NOT open
.html files for articles in the databases.

• The last page of your final draft should consist of the required
works cited page.
Editing:
• Make certain you proofread carefully! You will be graded on
quality of sources,
soundness of content, thoroughness of documentation, plus
grammar, punctuation,
and spelling.
Lecture VIII: Critical Interpretations of A Doll’s House and
Writing the Research
Paper
To this day, critics are not in agreement in their interpretations
of Nora’s actions
in A Doll’s House. Was she manipulative or passive? Was her
leaving necessary? Should
she have left her husband and children? Indeed, the slamming of
the door often
dominates class discussions. What will happen to Nora later?
This is speculative, of

course, but could Nora possibly change her mind? Could
Torvald change?
And to a student of the 21st century trying to interpret A Doll’s
House, one has to
look carefully at the mores of the Victorian Age, a time of rigid
patriarchy in which
women did not vote, did not attend college (with only a few
exceptions), did not control
their own money, and were expected to submit to the rule of
their husbands and fathers.
Had Nora taken her children with her, could she have earned
enough money to care for
them, and could she have cared for them while she worked?
Is it symbolic that Nora dances the tarantella (in medieval
times, a victim of a
spider bite [a tarantula] “dances herself to death”)? And in so
doing, Nora is supervised
and coached by her husband, Torvald. It is also significant that
Nora is forbidden to eat
macaroons by her husband.
Reflecting the 19th century view of Nora, Clement Scott writes
in an 1889 critical
essay rather pejoratively of Nora. Scott accuses Nora of being
an unnatural woman,

ignoring her maternal instincts and focusing only on herself.
Indeed, it is this selfishness
that Scott focuses on, as he sometimes resorts to name-calling.
Keep in mind that the
play A Doll’s House was shut down by the police when first
performed in New York—it
was considered too shocking and a bad example to ladies!
To contrast, more modern critics focus on Nora as a modern,
feminist heroine.
Katherine M. Rogers writes in a 1985 work of criticism with a
much more positive view
of Nora. Rogers asks us to consider how the romantic gender
roles that exist even today
cause people not so much to live in a real relationship but to
imagine themselves as
“damsels in distress” and “knights in shining armor.” To
Rogers, this way of thinking can
lead only to disappointment and disillusionment, which she
believes is the cause for the
dissolution of Nora’s marriage. In other words, Rogers
contends that Nora expected
heroic behavior from Torvald—and could not deal with her own

disappointment in his
failure to “rescue her” in a time of trouble; to Nora, Torvald did
not live up to his end of
the bargain, so nothing was left of the marriage.
Talk with your classmates about the critical commentaries in
your text by August
Strindberg, Emma Goldman, Joan Templeton, and Susanna
Rustin. Also, consider the
“Memorandum” written by Ibsen himself on October 19, 1878.
On the research paper—
1. Topics #1 and #2 ask you to analyze a character. In analyzing
a character, your
first task is to develop three aspects of that character (to be
listed in the thesis). Begin by
listing as many character traits as possible. For example, if we
look at Krogstad, could
we say he is unscrupulous, determined, and uncaring? What
other characteristics could
we attribute to him? In a body paragraph, could we find several
passages from the play
to illustrate Krogstad’s being “unscrupulous”? Further, could
we add some comments

from critics on that point? So, an outline for a research paper
analyzing Krogstad (and
note that this is NOT one of your topics) could look like this:
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Krogstad: A Character Analysis
I. Introduction
Thesis—Krogstad is shown by Ibsen to be unscrupulous,
determined, and
uncaring.
II. Krogstad is an unscrupulous character.
Illustrate with AT LEAST three quotes from the play—and
introduce each quote
to place the quote into perspective.
Add a few quotes from critics to augment the discussion.
III. Krogstad is a determined character.
introduce each quote.

IV. Krogstad is an uncaring person.
introduce each quote.
V. Conclusion
State what you think Ibsen intended in creating this character—
in terms of Ibsen’s
vision for the play.
2. Topic #3. In this topic, you are being asked to analyze four
critical articles about A
Doll House. Use articles from scholarly journals found in
databases such as JSTOR.
Your thesis should reflect FOUR points that you are going to
focus on in your paper
(a key phrase anticipating each of the four articles). TOPIC #3
will have FOUR body
paragraphs, one on each article.
Review of the 500-word theme:
I. Paragraph I—Introduction—100-125 words (or 5-12

sentences)
• Lead-in (mention the title of the work, the author’s name, and
the
date of composition)
• Provide a brief synopsis (2-3 sentences, with the gist of the
work)
• Thesis statement—list the points to be developed in the body
of the
paper (three aspects of one theme seen in the play)
II. Paragraph 2—First Body Paragraph—100-125 words (or 5-12
sentences)
• Follow the topic sentence with support—quotes from the play
and from articles.
III. Paragraph 3—Second Body Paragraph—100-125 words (or
5-12
sentences)
• Follow the topic sentence with support— quotes from the play
and from articles.
IV. Paragraph 4—Third Body Paragraph—100-125 words (or 5-
12
sentences)
• Follow the topic sentence with support— quotes from the play
and from articles.
V. Paragraph 5—The Conclusion—100-125 words (or 5-12
sentences)
• Mirror the introduction—restate the thesis, restate the major

points without being repetitive
• End with an important thought, a provocative idea, a quote
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https://www.gradesaver.com/a-dolls-house/e-text/act-i
This is the link for full text of the play. You must read Acts I,II
and III. When you cite from the text just indicate (Act #) after
each quote.

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