Student Projects and Papers
18 July 2008

Bonnie Duncan
The Seneca Tales
Student project recording a pilgrimage to Seneca Falls, undertaken by such characters as the Feminist, the Chef, the Sensitive Boyfriend, the Sorority Girl, the Executive, the Redneck, the Musician, the Politically Correct, the Promise Keeper, the Golfer, the Perpetual Student, and the Englishman.

Michael Hanly (Washington State University)
Oral Reports (from a graduate seminar)
Notes for oral reports on books and articles by S. Justman, J. Ferster, L. Patterson, P. Olson, V. A. Kolve, E. T. Donaldson, P. Knapp, M. Leicester, D. S. Brewer, C. Muscatine, R. Evans and L. Johnson, M. Keen, and B. Nolan. Also includes annotated bibliographies on travel & pilgrimage and "the Amazon voice in the Knight's Tale."

Michael Hanly (Washington State University)
Exam Study Guide
A useful set of notes on the Tales (both as a whole, and individually) out of which one might construct an exam. Simple in format, but very suggestive.

Edwin Duncan (Totowa University)
Sample Research Topics
E.g., courtly love and the Knight's Tale; Boethius and the Knight's Tale; The Knight's Tale and Astrology.

Susan K. Hagen (Birmingham-Southern College)
Sample Annotations
Explains how to construct an annotated bibliography (one of the assignments for Prof. Hagen's Canterbury Tales course).

Matthew Markland (Iowa State University)
Chaucer's Poetry: The Boethian Poems
An example of a web-based student research project. Summarizes the relevant sources and comments on their relevance to Chaucer. Includes short, annotated bibliographies and a detailed evaluation of the internet as a tool for undergraduate study and literary research.

Anonymous Student (Totowa University)
Conclusion for the Clerk's Tale
Homage to Lorena Bobbitt.

Anniina Jokinen (Luminarium)
Essays and Articles on Chaucer
Links to articles on Troilus and most of the Tales; many of these are student essays, now labeled with an S.

Yi Sheng (Raffles Junior College)
The Canterbury Inn
Student essays on the Canterbury Tales.

T. Michael Kelly
Criteria: A Guide to Evaluating [Online] Resources
Offers general guidelines to students using the internet for papers, with a checklist of considerations (e.g., authority, audience, accuracy, currency).

Daniel T. Kline
Assessing WWW Sites and Sources
A comparable set of criteria (association, authorship, content, currency, design and execution, links, outside recognition), with links to online essays on the subject.

Please send comments to David Wilson-Okamura at david@virgil.org.