To start off, this will be a 6 page research paper on the depictions of Christ in the work done by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. And the strained relation of the Pope and Michelangelo as he worked to finish the ceiling.
Here are the instructions for your research paper:
- Each student will have a major, heard-of artist as a subject for a research paper.
- The paper should be a minimum of 5 pages (standard margins, standard font).
- The paper should meet normal standards for documentation (footnotes and bibliography such as found in the American Psychological Association, 4th ed., or Chicago, 14th ed., or MLA, or other standard you might have worked with in your field).
- The expectation is that the research should represent information from a number of sources (at least 7) and that any direct borrowing of wording from these sources will be indicated by quotation marks and footnotes.
- It is also expected that the paper will be written well enough so that spelling, sentence structure and other basic mechanics of writing will not be a distraction to the reader.
- This paper should be more than just being “about” the artist. Try to identify a theme or central idea about the artist or his/her artwork and then build the paper around that idea.
- You will be asked to write an outline of your proposed paper with a thesis statement to show how your paper will support the thesis statement. A collection of materials from a variety of sources that are just chained together without being organized to support a general idea is not considered to be a research paper. Inclusion of images of artwork by the artist is helpful.
- Increasingly, the Internet is a source of useful information. Because of the lack of normal scholarly control of quality and accuracy in this information realm, with any Internet source used in the paper it is required to not only report the http etc. address, but will also identify the source of that site.
