The Portfolio Project is designed to require you to expand your understanding of Things Fall Apart bycombining knowledge and application of content with your owninterpretation and judgment. For the Portfolio Project, you will write aresearch paper about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart,supplementing your own interpretation with information from three tofive other sources. Your interpretation of this novel should reflect aninternational perspective. Information about planning your researchpaper and conducting your research can be found in the lecture materialfor Module 5. The Portfolio Project is due in Week 8.

Essay Formatting Requirements:

• 5-7 pages (not including title or reference page)
• Minimum of three sources (excluding the novel)—must be credible,authored sources; anonymous websites or sites like Wikipedia are notacceptable as one of your three main sources.
• Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-pt font.
• Title Page: for an explanation of how to formulate a title page in APA, see The Purdue OWL (scroll down to “Title Page”), or use the APA template provided in the CSU-Global Library.
• Insert page numbers in the top right hand corner.
• Include a reference page.
• Use CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA for correct APA formatting in the paper and on the reference page.
• Your final paper will be graded not only based on content but alsoon the quality of your writing, syntax, and grammar. Please be sure topay special attention to the quality of your written work. It is highlyrecommended that you closely proofread your assignment prior tosubmission. In addition, you are again expected to provide support foryour arguments based upon both the required and recommended readings forthe course, your research, and any relevant points culled from thediscussion boards. Review the Portfolio Rubric, located in the Module 8folder.
• Finally, you will take the particular research question that you aredeveloping as the thesis of your Portfolio Project and contextualize itin such a way as to convey an international or multiculturalunderstanding of the novel. For example, if you are developinga cultural analysis of the novel, you will need to answer, as a part ofyour research thesis, how one culture develops in direct competitionagainst the emergence of another foreign culture. Or, if you aredeveloping a feminist analysis, you will need to answer, as a part ofyour research question, how one culture’s treatment of women changeswhen confronted by another culture’s differing attitude toward women.Or, if you are doing a direct compare/contrast analysis, you will needto directly compare specific aspects of one culture against anotherculture.
• In other words, any critical perspective from which you frame yourthesis and overall paper needs to convey a sharper international ormulticultural understanding of the novel and should be reflected in youroutline and reference list.