Paper details
The Research Paper assignment asks you to develop and pursue your own line of inquiry by embarking on
an extended investigation into your choice of either Fences or Smoke Signals. Your analysis of this film will
be informed and complicated by the work of academic scholarly sources you will locate through your
research. You may also include research into the social-historical context in which the film was set. The end
product will be a thoughtful, critical, and persuasive thesis-driven paper about the film that is supported
and/or complicated by secondary sources.
4-page research-based essay (can be longer, but no shorter)
1 primary source (the literature-based film)
3 secondary sources (2 of which must be scholarly/peer reviewed)
MLA-style format for both in-text citations and a final Works Cite