Things fall apart | English homework help

The Portfolio Project is designed to require you to expand yourunderstanding of Things Fall Apart by combining knowledge andapplication of content with your own interpretation and judgment. Forthe Portfolio Project, you will write a research paper about ChinuaAchebe?s Things Fall Apart, supplementing your own interpretation withinformation from three to five other sources. Your interpretation ofthis novel should reflect an international perspective. Informationabout planning your research paper and conducting your research can befound in the lecture material for Module 5. The portfolio project isdue in Week 8.
Essay Formatting Requirements:
ÿ ÿ 5-7 pages.ÿ ÿ Minimum of three sources (excluding the novel) ? must be credible,authored sources; anonymous websites or sites like Wikipedia are notacceptable as one of your three main sources.ÿ ÿ Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font.ÿ ÿ Title Page: for an explanation of how to formulate a title page inAPA, see The Purdue OWL (scroll down to ?Title Page?), or use the APAtemplate provided in the CSU-Global Library. (Titled ?Does Your PaperLook Like This??)ÿ ÿ Insert page numbers in the top right-hand corner.ÿ ÿ Include a Reference Page.ÿ ÿ Use CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements for correctAPA formatting in the paper and on the reference page.ÿ ÿ Your final paper will be graded not only based on content but alsobased upon the quality of your writing, syntax, and grammar. Please besure to pay special attention to the quality of your written work. Itis highly recommended that you closely proofread your assignment priorto submission. In addition, you are again expected to provide supportfor your arguments based upon both the required and recommendedreadings for the course and your research, as well as to incorporateany relevant points culled from the discussion boards. Review thePortfolio Rubric, located in Course Information.ÿ ÿ Finally, you will take the particular research question that youare developing as the thesis of your Portfolio Project andcontextualize it in such a way as to convey an international ormulticultural understanding of the novel. For example, if you aredeveloping a cultural analysis of the novel, you would need to answer,as a part of your research thesis, how one culture develops in directcompetition against the emergence of another foreign culture. Or, ifyou are developing a feminist analysis, you would need to answer, as apart of your research question, how one culture?s treatment of womenchanges when confronted by another culture?s differing attitude towardwomen. Or, if you were doing a direct compare/contrast analysis, youwould need to directly compare specific aspects of one culture againstanother culture.ÿ ÿ In other words, any critical perspective from which you frame yourthesis and overall paper needs to convey a sharper international ormulticultural understanding of the novel and should be reflected inyour outline and reference list.