Format requirements

Title: Give your report a title

Length: approximately 4-6 paragraphs

Time: 1-1.5 hours

Works Cited: Include a list of your major research sources (at least four)

Assignment description: Write a complete report describing your research on your chosen subject.

· Student is responsible for having researched at least four sources on the subject before the exam.

· Organize the information you found and review how you may use it, either in your college career, teaching, or personal development.

· The emphasis is on information, not opinion and analysis, though some summary and evaluation is welcome and expected. It's a report foremost.

· You are encouraged to connect your findings to course objectives or texts.

Default organization: Describe your path of learning as a quest.

· What subject did you choose and why? What relevance to our course and/or to your life or career?

· What were your starting points in research? How did your subject or understanding change or develop?

· What did you learn? What was expected or unexpected? If you continued your research, what would you seek to know next and why?

Evaluation standards: Readability, competence levels, and interest.

· Readability: Your reader must be able to process what you're reporting. Given the pressures of a timed writing exercise, some rough edges are acceptable.

· Competence levels: quality of your research and comprehension of your subject

Interest: Make your reader *want* to process your report. Make the information meaningful; make it matter to our study of literature and culture.

Sources for research report:

You must refer to at least four outside sources. At least two sources must be “non-web”—i. e., from print sources or firsthand interviews. As one of your sources, you are encouraged to consider interviewing either representatives of your immigrant group or experts who may know something about this group.

Assignment description: Write a complete report describing your research on your chosen subject.

· Student is responsible for having researched at least four sources on the subject before the exam. These sources should be as varied as possible: web sources, personal interviews with teachers or experts, documentaries or encyclopedia articles, anything with trustworthy information on your subject.

· Organize the information you found and review how you may use it, either in your college career, extended research, teaching, or personal development.

· The emphasis is on information, not opinion and analysis, though some summary and evaluation is welcome and expected. It's a report foremost.