ENG 1102 HCC The Intentions and Impacts of Pedro Paramo Annotated Bibliography 1. Documented Essay Assignment and Topic We are ready to begin working on o

ENG 1102 HCC The Intentions and Impacts of Pedro Paramo Annotated Bibliography 1. Documented Essay Assignment and Topic

We are ready to begin working on our research essay although it is not due for another week or more. We will all use the same topic, a simple one that is focused on explaining Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo, when it was written, what it is about, its influence on Latin American Literature. I suggest that you start with simple research about Pedro Paramo.

As you prepare this essay please beware that you must include and quote three to five outside sources, use the MLA format, and in the process of the paper explain Pedro Paramo, its origins, intentions, and influences.

I made the topic very simple, so if you have never written a documented essay, you will still have no trouble. You can use as few as three sources, as I say above, and we have been working the whole term on the format, except we now will deploy several quotations and certainly a works cited page.

Why don’t you start with a search of Juan Rulfo and the title of his famous short novel, Pedro Paramo.

I will give you an alternative topic, directly related to the paper we did for characterization, but this one requiring three to five sources and a works cited. Please read about that option below if you are interested. I will warn you in advance that the paper will be somewhat more challenging in that your research will be a great deal more focused. You make your own choice.

2. Second Possible Topic for the Documented Research Essay

If you do not like the first topic, you can do this one:

One of the great works of literature in the last 100 years, ironically, is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Now our topic here is very specific, and you do not want to deviate into discussing the narrative structure, plot or something else. The topic here is as follows:

The Critical Reception and Reactions to Gabriel Garcia-Marque’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Here the point of your essay–if you like this topic–will be to find specific comments on the great novel by any number of artists in the world, to include Mo Yan and almost every writer in the second half of the last century. Explain that your paper is demonstrating what people thought–or think–of this novel and its influence. Perhaps you can devote a paragraph to several commentaries. Obviously, a great writer’s opinion is worth more than the ninth grade student in the honors class in his or her town. Look up specific people, what they say, and quote them, attempting to build a case for the power and influence of this novel.

NOTE here you must have a minimum of five sources, all of which must be quoted minimum of one time each. Use all aspects of MLA format as with our other papers.

3. This essay should be multiple paragraphs, perhaps some 1,100 words or at least close to that number. You must have three to five sources, all of which are quoted in the body of the paper at least once consistent with the MLA style. The paper uses parenthetical references and must have a Works Cited, which, unlike the annotated bibliography, contains the reference but not the annotations.

4. An annotated bibliography is basically the same as any works cited or references page but, and there is one big difference: after each reference, there are a few brief sentences summarizing the contents of the reference listed above it in the bibliography. The bibliography is still a list of sources in alphabetical order, but the difference is the summary of the article, book, or any other source appears immediately below the MLA reference–and this is called the annotation, hence an “annotated” bibliography. If you have any questions, Google annotated bibliography examples and look at one or more. To save time and be working on your documented essay at the same time, there is some logic to using the research items for Magical Realism for this assignment.

Before submitting you might use this checklist:

MLA format top to bottom:

Double space only

12 TNR Font only

paragraphs indented

every page numbered

one inch margins all the way around, or on all four sides

an attached Works Cited page

minimum three sources, but more acceptable

every source listed on the works cited (minimum 4) are quoted a minimum of one time each in the paper

use of parenthetical references with the period outside the reference only like this ( ).

content of the parenthetical references and the reference page consistent with MLA format

works cited in alphabetical order, double space, with the first line of every reference ON the left margin but other lines indented once.