A research paper on a Haitian Folklore Dance. You may use Internet sources (no Wikipedia, please), and live interview as well as book references. References in MLA format must be attached at the end and are in addition to your basic body of text.  Please include information regarding the history (origins and development) and socio-political components of the dance form.  Please also describe characteristics of the dance, as many specific movements as you can identify, musical accompaniment and any other information your research uncovers. 

For examples of MLA Reference Format:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

Tips for writing your paper:  You may also look at owl.english.purdue.edu for more helpful information on writing academic research papers.

1.Choose Your Topic
2.Create an Outline for Yourself to help you organize your paper
3.Write an Introductory Paragraph letting me know what topic you have chosen and what aspects of the topic you intend to discuss in the paper
4.Write a draft of your paper being careful to organize it in a methodical fashion
5.Proofread and refine your paper.  Please use Grammarly to help you edit your paper with correct sentence structure, grammar and spelling. 
6.Write a closing paragraph summarizing the important points of your research
7.Provide references at the end in MLA Format:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
Please staple your paper if you submit it in hard copy

Here are some examples of references in MLA format:

Text Box: Dean, Cornelia. “Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet.” The New York Times, 22 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016.
Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com, 1 June 2006, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006. Accessed 15 June 2016.
Gowdy, John. “Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability.” International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.
An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, performances by Al Gore and Billy West, Paramount, 2006.
Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. Springer, 2005.