Student Research Assignment
English 250: 
Introduction to Fiction

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Create Your Own Project:
Looking at Fiction in New Ways

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This website will offer verbal, aural, and visual materials from which to begin your main research project for the class.  You have the choice to write a traditional paper or create a collaborative multimedia presentation with a group of 2-4 students. 

 
Overview: The assignment will be broken into four segments:

 
1. Reading the text of the various short stories and novels assigned in the class.

Link to Course Outline

(The examples in this website are based on the reading and interpretation of Frankenstein, but you may choose another topic.)
Young Mary in Oval
Link to Online 
Frankenstein Site

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Hollywood Images
Link to Video Page
 2. Viewing the multimedia presentation which includes video clips from film adaptations. 

March 21-23

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3. Doing additional research and preparing a written proposal for the term project, either as an individual or as one member of a group of 2-4 students.
Proposal due 4/6

Link to Chapman University Library
student with books
Link to Proposal Page

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Frank with books
Link to Research
Assignment Page
 4. Preparing the project:
  • a traditional 5-7 page research paper as an individual student, or
  • a multimedia presentation as a part of a group. Each student in the group will also prepare a 3-5 page written report. 
Final Draft Due May 11

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Book Cover hawthornestories bartleby maupassantbook
 chopinstories

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Prepared by Lynda Hall

Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866

lhall@chapman.edu