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WA3 and WA4 are the Research Project when put together. Some teachers like to give the assignment in one lump sum by having students research and write an essay; however, I find that students really need time to learn where to go for online literary research in order to find academically viable sources for literary research, how to select their secondary sources, and how to analyze their sources. That is why I devote one entire assignment (WA3) to just the research part of the project. Later in WA4, you will write a comparative essay in which you include what you have researched in WA3.
Let’s clarify
The six secondary sources (i.e. literary criticisms, academic journals, overviews, articles, professional essays, biographies…etc.) that you select and summarize in WA3 are the ones that you will later use in your WA4 essay. In STEP 3 of WA3, I go over the different ways to use a secondary source OR the things to look for in a secondary source as you select your sources for your future WA4 essay. I touch on it again in STEP 6 of the upcoming WA4.