Rigid social roles and double identities in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Research Essay Due: November 21 1,500 words 28% topic: 1. Rigid social roles and double identities in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Checklist 1. Does your thesis statement present the following elements: 1) your opinion; 2) your support for this opinion from primary sources; 3) your support for this opinion from secondary sources? 2. Are the essay's assertions clear? Are they adequately supported? 3. Are other points of view recognized and examined? 4. Have you used five or more secondary sources to support your central argument? 5. Does the organization of your paper further your assertions/argument? 6. Have you removed irrelevant material? 7. Have you followed MLA style for citations and bibliography? 8. Is your source material (whether summarized, paraphrased, or quoted) presented fairly and accurately? 9. Have you rechecked the citations for all the sources in your paper? 10. Have you prepared an alphabetical list of your sources for the end of your paper? Be Clear where you stand 3 categories 1. Agree 2. Disagree 3. Agree and disagree simultaneously Topic sentences in the middle paragraph should always be your OWN arguments ALWAYS…then explain why and use primary and secondary sources! IMPORTANT: USE THESE TEMPLATES!!!!!! Templates for disagreeing, with reasons - X is mistaken because she overlooks ___________________. - X's claim that ___________ rests upon the questionable assumption that _____________________. - I disagree with X's view that ________________ because, as a recent research has shown, ___________________. - X contradicts herself/can't have it both ways. On the one hand, she argues ______________. On the other hand, she also says ________________. - By focusing on ____________, X overlooks the deeper problem of _______________. Templates for agreeing - I agree that ________________ because my experience __________ confirms it. - X is surely right about ___________ because, as she may not be aware, recent studies have shown that __________________. - X's theory of ______________ is extremely useful because it shed light on the difficult problem of ________________. - Those unfamiliar with this school of thought may be interested to know that it basically boils down to _____________. - I agree that _________, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people still believe _______________. - If group X is right that __________, as I think they are, then we need to reassess the popular assumption that _______________. Templates for agreeing and disagreeing simultaneously - Although I agree with X up to a point, I cannot accept his overriding assumption that ______________________. - Although I siagree with much that X says, I fully endorse his final conclusion that __________________. - Though I concede that _______________, I still insis that ______________. - X is right that _______________, but she seems on more dubious ground when she claims that ________________. - While X is probably wrong when she claims that _________________, she is right that __________________. - Whereas X provides ample evidence that ____________, Y and Z's research on ______________ and _____________ convinces me that ____________ instead. - I'm of two minds bout X's claim that _____________. On the one hand, I agree that _____________. On the other hand, I'm not sure of ________________. - My feelings on the issue are mixed. I do support X's position that __________, but I find Y's argument about ________________ and Z's research on ______________ to be equally persuasive.