DRAMA The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Paper detailsThis paper must conform to properly documented MLA format, with at least three (3) parenthetical references within the text and at least three (3) separate entries on your Works Cited page, primarily to demonstrate your extensive topical research. 1) Your fourth and final essay will be on one or more plays from our nntextbook Literature, and will be our only essay requiring independent nnresearch as well as full use of MLA documentation, both in footnotes and in nnthe Works Cited page. nn. nn2) Your topic can be any literary element or series of elements in the drama nnwhich we have covered so far in this course, including but not limited to the nnfollowing: theme, plot, foreshadowing, irony, characterization, or symbolism. nn3) Special requirements: To demonstrate your ability to use research nntechniques, it is imperative that in the body of your paper you make use of nnat least three appropriate quotations from your research sources, and that nnyou include in your papers text at least three properly documented nnparenthetical references and on your Works Cited page at least three nnproperly documented appropriate sources from learned journals. This nnrequirement is primarily to demonstrate your extensive topical research. nnWikipedia and any similarly undocumented sources are nnspecifically prohibited as sources for this essay.nn4) Take all pains and make every personal effort to avoid even the nnslightest possible hint of plagiarism. If you borrow an idea from another nnwriter, give that writer credit for it in the body of your essay and properly nndocument the source in your footnote and on your Works Cited page. nnEvidence of overt plagiarism can automatically nullify all the benefits of any nnwriting that you ever formally submit during your entire lifetime. nn5) Your essay must be double spaced, all pages numbered in the upper nnright corner, and in addition to the Works Cited page should be at least nnthree full pages long, with no upper limit, employing Comic Sans nnMF 12-point font. (With this format and depending on margin width, nnyour word count will usually be approximately 300 words per page.) Your nnname and essay title should appear as part of your heading on the top left nncorner of page one of your essay and should not be in quotes, italicized or nnunderlined. Except for first words, dont capitalize any definite articles or nnprepositions in your essays title. Your full name, your essays title, date of nnsubmission, Course number, ENC 1102 and class section should all appear nnin the upper left hand corner of the first page of your essay. All pages nnshould be sequentially numbered with the page digit on the upper right nnhand corner of each page.