MEC Senior Thesis

 As you do your research for your thesis you will complete an Annotated Bibliography to demonstrate your research skills and your understanding of your project. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/ Annotated Bibliographies Summary:  This handout provides information about annotated bibliographies in MLA, APA, and CMS. Contributors: Geoff Stacks, Erin Karper, Dana Bisignani, Allen Brizee Last Edited: 2013-03-10 11:25:28 Definitions A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic. Bibliographies are sometimes called "References" or "Works Cited" depending on the style format you are using. A bibliography usually just includes the bibliographic information (i.e., the author, title, publisher, etc.). An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources. Depending on your p...

 https://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/cas/english/AbstractTips.pdf Now, on to the fundamentals.  Length, Contents, and Organization Descriptive abstracts are usually only 100-250 words, so they must be pared down to the essentials. Typically, a descriptive abstract answers these questions:  Why did you choose this study or project? What did/will you do and how? What did you/do you hope to find?  (For a completed work)  What do your findings mean?  The title should be informative and focused, indicating the problem and your general approach. It’s very fashionable in the humanities to have titles featuring “post-colonic surge”—a catchy phrase, a colon, and then an explanation of the title. While snappy titles may help your abstract be noticed, it’s really what comes after the colon that sells the abstract, so pay attention to it. “All the World’s a Ship: Race and Ethnicity in Moby Dick ” catches the eye, but “Melville’s Deconstruction of Ethnicity in the ‘M...

 A Creative Thesis This should be a developed piece of creative writing that has undergone an extensive revision process. For example, appropriate projects include, a collection of poems, a story or set of short stories, a chapter of a novel, a screenplay, or a piece of creative non-fiction. A prose project should total 20-25 pages. Longer pieces may be submitted upon approval of the advisor, but in this case less is more. A poetic project can be a series of linked poems, a long poem, or a group of poems that comprise a chapbook. They should total from 15-20 pages. The project should also: • be professionally presented, i.e., word-processed and bound, demonstrating a pride in the work. The goal is to produce a manuscript both polished and publishable. • include a 2-4 page artist statement, explaining the goals and process Include a 5-10 page critical analysis of prevailing aesthetic informing the work, and setting the work in its literary-historical context by describing how the wo...

Guidelines for Senior Thesis/English 422 printing, binding and emailing • All 422 students should submit at least 2 drafts during the course of the semester to their advisor for feedback.  • Students will submit a final copy (a week before the final day of class) for grading. The Advisor will give back the graded copy with comments for the students to revise. With the final approval of the student’s Thesis Advisor, the student should print a clean copy of the thesis for binding. • The student should also email a PDF copy of the thesis to the Thesis Advisor. • The student should include a cover sheet, an Acknowledgment page, a Table of Contents (if needed), the Abstract and the final paper (which should range from 25-30 pages and include a bibliography and a list of illustrations, if any are included in the text).  MLA or APA format must be used throughout.  • The Cover Sheet should have the following (centered) Title of Thesis Student’s full name Date of Submiss...

 Welcome to the blog for MEC Senior Thesis Students. Here you will find some resources to assist you with your project. It is also a place to connect with each other as we move through the process.