"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

CAREFULLY READ the following instructions.
I can only provide one source which is the link to the the full text.

The assignment is a RESEARCH PAPER.
You are to ANALYZE ONE TEXT from this course.
The research paper must be FIVE pages in length, not counting the WORKS CITED page.
You must provide FIVE SECONDARY sources in your Works Cited page.
Research sources must be ACADEMIC, NOT INTERNET SOURCES.

Your paper topic MUST BE APPROVED BY ME. Send me an email with your topic.
Feel free to send me an email with your thesis statement and we can workshop it together.

1. READ: Essay Instructions:

a. Choose ONE text on which you would like to do a close reading. It can be any texts we have read so far this semester. Feel free to compare and contrast two texts as long as the comparisons are meaningful enough to produce interesting ideas.

b. Each and every essay you write will be of your own creation based on your original work. Although the topic of the research paper must be based on course content, you will create your own thesis.

c. Your research topic must be approved before you begin research. The body of the paper should be approximately five pages in length.

d. The Works Cited page should include a minimum of five varied sources.

e. Your essay should be prepared according to MLA format.

f. Final drafts of essays must be carefully revised, typed, and double-spaced with one-inch margins. All work should be free of typographical and grammatical errors and must meet all the other requirements of the assignment, including page length.

g. You will be asked to upload the research paper to Turnitin by the deadline. Anyone who plagiarizes will fail the course.

h. Essays will be uploaded to Turnitin.