WORK
Essay 1 (20%): This essay must be a minimum of 600 words (at least 2 and 1/2 pages long). Longer essays are acceptable.
- Choose one of the discussion questions provided to date and write a detailed response. You may include your discussion board response, but this essay should be more detailed than that of a discussion board response and should be constructed as a complete essay. Critical thinking and a thoughtful analysis of the text are important to achieving a good grade.
- Secondary sources are encouraged but not required.
- The essay is due by Saturday evening of week 4.
—You can and should cite from the primary text (the story). Be sure to use appropriate in-text documentation. (Review MLA citation).
—This essay should have an introduction with a solid thesis, a body, and a conclusion.
Every essay should have a beginning (introduction, which clearly states the subject, goal, and thesis *statement* [the thesis is never a question; it is the answer to the question], and a brief map of your essay. Review: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/thesis-statements/ (Links to an external site.) ), middle (body, in which you cite evidence and use facts to support your thesis), and ending (conclusion: summarize and synthesize the evidence for your essay).
A few tips for formal writing:
- Avoid contractions
- Never use you/we/us
- Avoid overuse of first person (I)
- Avoid informal style and colloquial language
- DOCUMENT EVERYTHING —if you look it up, you must document it
- Make sure your works cited/bibliography has all the primary and secondary sources you have used
- State the full title and author in the introductory paragraph
- Develop a title personalized to your essay
- Develop a coherent thesis/argument & reiterate this in your conclusion
For MLA style documentation help, review the Style Guide in Course Information, and also refer to Purdue OWL:
- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ (Links to an external site.) (MLA)
- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/2/ (Links to an external site.) (On Academic Writing)
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