What Makes a Good Literature Paper
One word, your “argument”. Before you generate your topic for the paper, it is vital for you to do thorough research to get a general idea about the direction or perspective you intend to write your paper on. Only reading one text is not going to help matters. You need to read about the author’s background, his other work and critical essays previously published on his work. This gives you a more clear idea whether you are going in the right direction or not. Say you are writing your paper keeping D.H.Lawrence’s novel ‘Sons and Lovers’ in mind. Just reading that novel will not be enough. You will have to do your background reading. Read about the social and political scenario of the time in order to better understand the author’s point of view and how justifiable his perspective is. When you are writing a literary research paper you are essentially making an argument and then providing evidence from the text or otherwise to prove your statement. Choose