This library course guide will
introduce you to the Library's resources which may inform and support your research project in Professor Pennino's class.
RESEARCH PAPER
Length: 10 pages (using Time New Roman 12 point font, double spacing between lines, 1” margins). Titles pages and work cited pages do NOT count toward your total.
Works:
On the Road. Jack Kerouac
“Howl”. Allen Ginsburg
The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath
The Crying of Lot 49. Thomas Pynchon
Portnoy’s Complaint. Philip Roth
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson
The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin
Dispatches. Michael Herr.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Tom Wolfe.
For this paper, you must have a minimum of seven sources.
Literature Review: due on November 24th.
For this paper, you need to choose one of the major works we have read in class. You have a great deal of leeway in choosing your topic, but this work must be at the center of your paper. You can be a bit imaginative here, utilizing the perspective of another humanities discipline (philosophy, history, art, music, etc.). You need, however, to clear your topic with me.
Paper is Due December 8th.