narrow the topic. Rather than focusing on the William Wordsworth entire life, it might be helpful to choose
an aspect of his or her life to research.
While researching about William Wordsworth, you may find a face of his life that you find
interesting. You could focus on this to create a claim or assertion about William Wordsworth. This claim
becomes the thesis, and then you would go into more details/development in the body
paragraphs about this topic using the research found.
While researching, remember what you have learned about credible sources (Not all information
online is correct.).
Find information from three various sources—one needs to be a print source, and the others
can be web sources. You will also need to gather information about the source to include in the
Works-Cited page.
When using a book source, gather:
 Title
 Author’s name
 Publishing information: who published it, and where and when it was published
When using a website source, gather:
 Author (if one is listed)
 Website title
 Page title
 Publishing information: who published it, and when it was published
 Date accessed—what date did you get information from the site