Literacy Research

When you include direct material borrowed from secondary texts, you must format these correctly in your literary research paper, and _____ where the material came from.

• keep secret

• document

• store in a separate computer file

• tell your teacher

If you want to find something specific in your own background that helps you make a point about the text, you are probably making use of _____.

• an old book report

• Memoir Writing

• Reader Response Theory

• New Historicism

Literary research requires more materials and a more complex process than writing a simple _____.

• scientific paper

• book report

• list of points

• persuasive essay

The literary theory that is based on the idea that money and power underlie every story is _____.

• Marxist Theory

• New Historicism

• Psychoanalytic

• Reader Response

When doing a literary research project, you must have a _____, which is a specific point that you want to argue about the text.

• style guide

• supporting text

• theory

• thesis

In literary research, the materials (other books, articles, etc.) that you use to support your thesis are called _____.

• secondary texts

• library materials

• borrowed materials

• extra texts