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Assignment List Essay 1 Week 2

Essay 1 Week 2

DUE: Aug 18, 2019 11:55 PM

Grade Details

Open Date Aug 11, 2019 11:59 PM

Graded? Yes

Points Possible 100.0

Resubmissions Allowed? No

Attachments checked for originality? Yes

Assignment Instructions

Write a 500-750 word essay. The word count does not include formatting or the works cited page.

Compare OR contrast two of the works from weeks 1 and 2. Be sure that you have isolated a strong and debatable thesis on which to build the essay. Simply pointing out the differences is not analysis. Toward that end, you may want to focus on a specific element of the stories, such as setting or character development.

Do not attempt to compare (how two objects are the same) AND contrast (how two objects are different) in the essay. This assignment is too short for that much analysis. If you find yourself running out of subject matter, you likely have not considered all angles of the analysis. 

You may not use outside sources. Only primary sources from within the course (the readings under discussion) may be used.

Your essay should be formatted in MLA style, including double spacing throughout. All sources should be properly cited both in the text and on a works cited page. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don’t forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.

Be careful that you don’t create a “cut and paste” paper of information from your various sources. Your ideas are to be new and freshly constructed. Also, take great care not to plagiarize.

Whatever topic you choose you will need a debatable thesis. A thesis is not a fact, a quote, or a question. It is your position on the topic. The reader already knows the story; you are to offer him a new perspective based on your observations. Since the reader is familiar with the story, summary is unnecessary.

Rather than tell him what happened, tell him what specific portions of the story support your thesis. 

Submission Instructions: Please be sure to submit your assignment to the assignment section of the course. I am not permitted to accept work outside of the classroom.

Due Date: Sunday, by 11:59 p.m., ET

Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

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the two weeks to compare for the assignment.

WK1 

Week 1 Forum: Identity

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INSTRUCTIONS: To post, click on the topic title to access the topic and then click the “Post New Thread” button. 

Part I: After reading the lesson this week, compose a paragraph of ‘reader response’ to the Dickinson poem and one of the Whitman poems. One paragraph each! Remember, ‘reader response’ asks that you connect with the poem in some personal way.

Part II: Find another internet resource ( this might be a text-based website or a Youtube video or a journal article)that provides some additional insight or helps you understand any of this week’s poems. Share the link and describe what the resource is and how it helped you.

Part III: What lines from “Song of Myself” describe, in your view, something important or unique about American identity? Copy and paste the lines here and then discuss your reason for selecting them in a paragraph.

WK2

Week 2 Forum: Social Realism

Part I: Describe the qualities of life in America that TWO of our authors this week were criticizing. Do these criticisms seem valid to make of today’s America?

Part II:  Try a gendered/ feminist reading of 2 readings not mentioned in your Part 1 response. Describe what the writers seem to be saying about masculinity and/or femininity. Are these stereotypes/expectations still present in contemporary life?