Critical argument using comparative analysis:

Phase I--Research recent scholarly journals to find ten articles using more than two or more literary texts, not necessarily by the same person.  Then annotate these articles with one sentence on the focus, one sentence on the critical method, and one sentence on how that might be helpful to you in writing a similar paper, probably on a smaller scale.  The annotation should be a simple extension of the bibliography entry, with the same double spacing and indentation.  Email by week thirteen.

Phase II--Select one of these sources to use one quote from that will create a kind of rhetorical funnel into your own focus and method in dealing with two of the texts assigned or stated as options for Project #3.  The works you are dealing with will probably be completely different, but the kind of focus or perhaps just the specificity of focus and the general method should connect to your own in a way you make explicit in an introduction that leads with this quote or includes it in the first few sentences.  Email by end of week thirteen.

Phase III--Full draft, employing a method similar to the quoted article, following MLA style documentation, and coming in at five to seven pages, not including the separate Works Cited page. Email by end of week fourteen.

Phase IV--Revise and submit finished version by week fifteen.  I will email you the paper grade and the final grade by the time I must turn in my grades.  This one may not be turned around quite as fast because of the crunch at the end.

Thoughts and Tips:  Pick texts you enjoy.  Going for motif or specific technique is popular you will see, and for a reason, so you might want to try that.  The handle on the two texts should be specific.  Remember that a true source relationship is much harder to demonstrate that a parallel or analog one.  Put an edge on this, showing, over any objections you can anticipate and explicitly acknowledge (in the manner or formal argumentation you have chosen), that your focus is worthwhile, your method productive.   To do this well you must make clear and concretely demonstate how the chosen texts inter-reveal each other and in doing so define particular artistic strengths or procedures.   Good luck.