Streetcar Named Desire
Writing your research paper on the play Streetcar Named Desire
A. This paper is mandatory and carries a larger grade . Failure to turn it in will bring your grade down to a D or F depending if you have all As.
Your paper must have 3 literary scholarly sources and all must have authors names and the page numbers where they are published. You will take at 3 direct quotations of 4 to 7 lines from each source, meaning you will have a total of 9 direct quotations or more. You will therefore have blend-ins, 4 – 5lines quotations, and block quotations. Do not let your paper be more than 35% of direct quotations as it will be a copied and pasted paper. You must have your own thoughts in discussions and analysis.
All quotations should be introduced and not just copied in the essay. Do not use your critic to quote from the play , but use the critic to give a critical comment on the dialog or event or excerpt you take from the play
Follow with the parenthetical citations (Collins 45). This means Collins is the last name and 45 is the page that it appeared in the Yale Review Journal. The MLA style does not use the year of publication in the parenthesis or the sentence. It also does not use the letters pp nor does it use the comma between the last name and page number.
Your paper must have the Works Cited soon after the essay. Only the 3 critics that you actually mention in your paper will appear in Works Cited and none others. List them by name alphabetically with the journal name, page numbers, and year of publications.
Any paper that has no research in the paper and a Works Cited page will be an F.
Read the play carefully and view or listen to all supplementaries I give you in etext path
You will have to do some research in our literary scholastic journals and see what critics have to say about the play and then decide what approach you want to take.
You will do your research using our library database and use only scholarly journals that publish literary criticism on these works. . Please do not ignore our library and be careful that your sources are sound. You will get a better grade for professional journals taken from our MVCC website.
B. The format will be MLA style. See Course Documents button to access MLA papers for guidelines.