For this assignment, you are asked to write a research paper that requires three scholarly sources (secondary sources) and the text you have chosen (primary source), for a total of four sources. The paper will be in MLA format, and needs to be at least four full pages, but should not exceed six pages. Please note that if your Works Cited page does not match your in-text citations, that can be grounds for failing the paper! Please choose from one of the following topics for your research paper:
- Psychology: Choose the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. Pretending you’re a psychiatrist or psychologist, analyze and diagnose the main character with a disorder or condition. For instance, is the grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” a narcissist? These are just examples of research questions. You can choose any story and come up with any psychological condition for your paper. (Please note: Do not literally pretend you are a psychologist or psychiatrist! I do not want a fictional narrative of how you know the character and what the character admitted to you; rather, I would like an academic argument proving why a character has the condition you believe he or she has.)