Les Miserables...

Reading and Project Work for Teaching Literature in ESL Contexts. Even the name of this subject is fearsome what more of studying it! Well, like it or not, this is the subject that I have to take this semester. As the name suggests, it is all about reading and eventually writing research papers. Definitely, lots of reading and research need to be done. Fortunately, there is no exam for this subject and it is good news for me.

The word “Research Paper” indeed brings a great impact on me. In some way it freaks me out as I don’t really like writing, but for the sake of completing this programme, I guess I just have to bear with it.

As a starting point, upon receiving the outline for the first assignment, I feel that it is quite easy as a proposal paper is about stating my stand on a single issue in any of the literary text that interests me. I feel that way because it is all about giving my opinion and then supporting it with appropriate evidences from the text. I believe that I can do it.

However, as I haven’t started doing it yet, I am just unsure whether that it is as easy as I thought. I already have in mind which literary text I am going to use for this assignment that is “Great Expectation” by Charles Dickens. Still, I might change my mind and work on other texts as there might be some other issues in them that are of my interests.

I hope that by doing this proposal paper, it will help me to write the research paper that is more difficult and carries more marks than this one.