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Open Quick Links Quick Links Logout Global Menu Michelle Williams Activity Updates 12 Top Frame Tabs My Institution Tab 1 of 4 Courses Tab 2 of 4 (active tab) Support Tab 3 of 4 Resources Tab 4 of 4 Current Location 2018_Fall_ENGL_1302_49F_1 – Composition II_OL_AUG_27 All Course Content Part 2 Menu Management Options Course Menu: 2018_Fall_ENGL_1302_49F_1 – Composition II_OL_AUG_27 All Course Content Textbooks Required Syllabus Assignment Schedule Supplemental Online Readings in Full-text Course Mail My Grades Learning Modules Content Web Links Grammar and Style Web Links Student Sample Essay Rubric for Scoring Essays Syllabi and Vitae Part 2 Content Assignment Part Two: 9/19 – 10/9: In the literature book, read the following pages: 117 – 119; 124 – 133; 165 – 167; 172 – 183; 204 – 222. Read also “The Swimmer” by John Cheever found in a link in the Part Two folder in Blackboard. Review the following sections in The Little, Brown Handbook: 6 – 9; 12, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, and 47. Primary sources covered in this unit: “To Build a Fire” “Barn Burning” “The Open Boat” “The Swimmer” Submit your final draft of Essay 2 by 11:59PM on Tuesday, 10/9. “The Swimmer” by John Cheever Full-text of “The Swimmer” William Faulkner “Barn Burning” Jack London “To Build a Fire” Stephen Crane.doc Student Sample Essay on Young Goodman Brown.doc Essay 2 Preliminary Instructions Format: The final draft of this essay is to be a minimum of nine-hundred well-developed and substantive words, double-spaced in MLA Style. For more information on MLA, see section 46 of the Little, Brown Handbook (LBH). On page 715, section 46c, you will see an example of how to set-up the first page of a document in MLA format. Emulate that example. A cover page is not required. Make sure that your paper conforms to the margin settings for the text of the paper as well as the header. Use Times New Roman, size 12 font. Do NOT use justified margin. Do NOT skip any extra lines. All pages should have a header that includes your last name and the relevant page number. All direct quotes and paraphrases must have MLA style in-text citations. Your essay must include a Works Cited page that references the work(s) which is/are cited in your essay. For citing the primary source (the short story about which you are writing), use as a model example 25 on page 687 in the LBH: “A selection from an anthology (print).” Write only in third person; no first or second person point of view is allowed (do not have “I” or “you” anywhere in your essay). Write about literature in present tense. Title: Make sure your paper has an informative academic title. Don’t try to be too creative here. The title is your first opportunity to get into your reader’s head about what he should expect to read about in your paper. Here is where you begin to make promises to your reader that you deliver upon in the supporting paragraphs of the essay. Don’t worry about the length of your title; in fact, in academic writing, longer titles tend to be better. Here is an example of what I am looking for: Childish Dependency: An Analysis of the Male-Female Relationship in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Notice that all important words are capitalized; nothing is put in italics or underlined; the only thing found between the quotation marks is Gilman’s published title. Notice that the title of the work as well as the author are both mentioned. Notice that it sets up a promise of what is to come in the paper: analysis from a feminist perspective. The Introduction: For this essay, write an introduction that appropriately introduces the author and the title of the short story about which you are writing. Start your introduction with a brief, targeted synopsis of the story that leads logically into your thesis statement and plan of development, which concludes your introduction. Supporting Paragraphs: Make sure that each supporting paragraph begins with a topic sentence that states the main idea of that particular paragraph. Make sure that all information within each paragraph is related to the main idea of that paragraph and that no irrelevant or unconnected information is contained in the paragraph. Make sure that the main idea of each supporting paragraph is fully developed, leaving nothing for your reader to infer about what it is you are trying to say. Don’t try to say it; say it! Textual Support: USE IT! Incorporate text (dialogue, narration) from the story and the articles to illustrate and support the points you’re making in your essay; this lends credibility to your analysis when you back it up with evidence from the text of the story and with what other scholars have said about the story. Make sure that all textual evidence is effectively introduced, smoothly incorporated with your own writing, and fully elaborated upon as to how it illustrates the reason you chose to use it to begin with. You might need to go as far as describing: 1) who is saying the quote? 2) to whom is it being said? 3) in what context is it being delivered? and 4) what does it mean? Explain it. Elaborate upon it. Explain how it helps you make your point and supports your analysis. The Objective: Use grammatically correct and articulate language to demonstrate in formal academic prose your in-depth thought in critically analyzing one of the following topics which will appear below these preliminiary instructions according to the date published in the Reading and Assignment Schedule. Essay 2 Make sure you adhere to ALL of the instructions presented in the link above titled, “Essay 2 Preliminary Instructions.” You are to write your essay about one of the topics below related to one story which you were assigned to read during this essay cycle. Choose only one of the following topics, NOT one about each story (900 words minimum essay length): “To Build a Fire” Write an essay which explains and supports with evidence from the text of the story the following thesis statement: The namelessness of the human character in “To Build a Fire” seems simultaneously to make him a representative of all humanity in his fight against nature’s relentless assault and to emphasize his—and consequently our—insignificance in the face of such overwhelming odds. In essence, the story clearly dramatizes that its primary theme is that our struggle against nature is a vastly unequal one that leaves little or no margin for error. “Barn Burning” Write an essay which explains and supports with evidence from the text of the story the following thesis statement: The main psychological story of “Barn Burning” is Sarty’s growing awareness of his father’s depravity and the boy’s internal struggle between blood loyalty to his father and a vague but noble ideal of honor suggested by the aristocratic Major de Spain. Sarty sees himself as an individual different from his father and kinfolk. By the end of the story he has achieved a difficult and tortured moral independence from his father. OR “The Open Boat” Write an essay which makes a cogent argument, using textual evidence from “The Open Boat,” that “A secondary theme of comradeship among the characters in the Crane’s short story informs readers that all four men qualify for the title of hero.” Be sure to also address Nature as the antagonist in this story, and contrast Nature with the “collective” of the men in the boat. Do they represent a microcosm of society? What point is Crane making? OR “The Swimmer” Write an essay in which you explain how setting is used symbolically in the story? Focus on such details as the change in weather and specific locales such as the highway and the public pool. Is the entire story a symbol of, or metaphor for, “life/existence”? If so, then what can we deduce about the life of the protagonist in the story? What can readers deduce about his character (a study in characterization)?
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