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Basic Instructions and Requirements for Longer Papers:

Compose an 800 to 1200-word essay that responds to the following modified prompt (which originally appears in The Norton Introduction to Literature, pg. 278):

Choose any story [in any] chapter and write an essay exploring how character, point of view, setting, symbolism, or any recurring word or phrase contributes to the development of the theme. Be sure to state the theme in [your introductory paragraph].

Your textbook defines a theme as “a general idea or insight conveyed by the work in its entirety” (249). For help identifying or articulating themes, please see pp. 252 to 253.

The essay should follow the guidelines specified and explained in The Norton Introduction to Literature (pp. 1255-69; 1279-94). If you have questions about these guidelines, please email me or ask questions live during my lectures.

Breakdown of Grading for First Paper (100 points total)

Argument and Analysis: 30 points

Organization / Paragraphing: 30 points

Grammar and Mechanics: 15 points

Style, Voice, Awareness of Audience: 15 points

Format: 10 points (MLA 8th edition)

Rubric

Please see Rubric Handout under the Content tab on D2L. It explains in detail how I will determine the point value your paper earns in each category listed above. I will email a completed rubric to you after evaluating your paper.

Expectations:

The most common question students ask when we discuss their written work is, “What are you looking for?” Here’s a general list (which pertains to Papers 1 and 2):

An awareness of audience. Your primary audience is familiar with the events of the story or the situation of the poem. Therefore, if you spend too much time simply summarizing what happens, you’re going over things that your readers already know! By focusing on features or details of a story or poem that is not immediately obvious, you’re choosing to take an interpretive approach that must analyze textual evidence that other readers may have missed (or may read differently).

Analysis. Instead of summarizing details that are obvious to first-time readers, your papers should analyze the story or poem you’re writing about. Even when writing about the plot of a story or the development of a character (things that may tempt you to summarize), you should take an analytical approach that investigates how these elements are shaped or composed for specific reasons or effects.

Paragraphs. Your paragraphs should focus on and elaborate one main idea, which should be articulated in a topic sentence. When composing an analytical paragraph, the topic sentence should, ideally, make some sort of arguable claim that answers the prompt you choose from the textbook. The rest of the paragraph should then provide evidence from the text and a careful explanation of why this evidence supports your interpretive claim.

Quality (or at least careful) writing. Even if you struggle with writing concise and clear sentences, you should—at the very least—demonstrate carefulness in your papers. This means planning what you will write before writing it (through prewriting and outlining), learning to edit your own work, and proofreading your papers before submitting them. When proofreading, you should check for errors in grammar, punctuation, as well as formatting.

Evidence of reading the textbook. The Norton Introduction to Literature has several chapters devoted to reading, responding to, and writing about stories, poems, and plays. These chapters are loaded with definitions, guidelines, and examples. Take advantage of this resource and learn to apply its lessons to your own written work.

Insightfulness. Analyzing literature can occasionally feel like trying to solve a challenging “story problem” in a math class. However, while math problems usually have one answer, the stories and poems we’ll be reading do not necessarily have a clear or single meaning or message. This is to say that settling for clichés or obvious meanings misses

the point of developing a habit of critical reading. Rather than look for a simple “moral of the story,” ask yourself how the literary work challenges simple morals or clichés.

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