LIT 480 Literature Capstone Seminar

General

• Demonstrate mastery of the discipline's scholarly writing conventions, including smooth integration of research material and correct use of the MLA format and documentation procedures' at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of advanced-standing English majors at a comprehensive university.
• Develop a coherent and sustained argument with a clearly organized development, sufficient evidence, and significant conclusion - at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of advanced-standing English majors at a comprehensive university.
• Develop an original, interpretive reading of a literary text which demonstrates an understanding of literal, figurative, and/or implicit meanings - at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of advanced-standing English majors at a comprehensive university.
• Perform research and integrates more than one source about the author, the text, and/or social/ historical/ aesthetic context(s) - at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of advanced-standing English majors at a comprehensive university.
• Respond effectively to theoretically-diverse research materials in support of an original thesis' at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of advanced-standing English majors at a comprehensive university.
• Use sufficient evidence from literary texts to support an interpretive reading - at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of advanced-standing English majors at a comprehensive university.