Your paper on Hamlet must be 4-8 pages (depending on the number of people of your group) and include properly formatted citations.
Follow the MLA Format and attach a Bibliography with at least 6 sources - 3 Database (see second tab for the MLA 8 Guide).
You'll have two drafts (one with peer edits)
Your final draft is due no later than 2/7/25 at midnight.
Original work only. Plagiarism = zero.
MyBib.com is a free citation generator for MLA, APA, and Chicago style. Create a new Project & Add a Citation. Choose website, book, journal, video, etc. For database articles, click More then Write/Paste. To copy or print your final list, click on Download Bibliography. Click here for handout. Watch the video!
Note-Taking Sheet
Click on File and Make a copy.
MLA citations are available for every article. Copy and paste into your Note Taking Sheet.
You need to pass in your Note-Taking Sheet with your brochure.
These links are to scholarly database articles. This collection of suggested articles are overview articles that you can use for background information. You will then choose more articles that address your specific lens below.
You must examine the play Hamlet from a literary lens: Feminist, Marxist, or Psychoanalytic.
Search Hamlet and a keyword in any of these databases (Home login and password: montytech1):
Ideas for searching include:
When searching in Google, type site:edu at the end of your keywords to get more scholarly sources. Or, go to scholar.google.com or books.google.com
When you are citing a play in-text, you want to enter (Act. Scene. Line(s)). Ex: (1.3.14-17) refers to Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 14 to 17.
Literary criticism and other indirect sources.
Citing a source found in another source will require you to either find and cite the original source in your paper or use the following: For indirect quotations, use "qtd. in" to indicate the source you actually consulted. Introduce the quotation with the original author. For example:
Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).
To read the differences between a summary vs. an analysis, try this guide from Reynolds Community College.
Here are some other sources: