Successful essays will

Successful essays will

1. Introduce and identify the story and the focus of the essay in the introduction.
2. Employ a clear thesis statement that states your claim about the story and forecasts the organization of the essay.
3. Address an audience of reader that are familiar with the story and author’s work but unfamiliar with your interpretation of it (in other words, you need not summarize the stories but you do need to be specific about which parts of the story you find important for supporting your claim).
4. Follows the conventions for writing about narrative.
5. Organize the paper and each paragraph effectively, given the purpose and audience. See the lesson on The Essential Moves of Literary Analysis in Topic 3 for more information on organizing your paragraphs.
6. Show your critical thinking about the story by supporting your ideas and paragraphs with
   1. Textual evidence in the form of quotations and details from the story to support interpretations, and
   2. Explication (explanation of your reasoning—how you understand and interpret the evidence).
7. Use Standard Edited American English.
8. Follow MLA formatting conventions.Literature MLA paper narrative.

 

Book pages will be provided and needed to read

Successful essays will

1. Introduce and identify the story and the focus of the essay in the introduction.
2. Employ a clear thesis statement that states your claim about the story and forecasts the organization of the essay.
3. Address an audience of reader that are familiar with the story and author’s work but unfamiliar with your interpretation of it (in other words, you need not summarize the stories but you do need to be specific about which parts of the story you find important for supporting your claim).
4. Follows the conventions for writing about narrative.
5. Organize the paper and each paragraph effectively, given the purpose and audience. See the lesson on The Essential Moves of Literary Analysis in Topic 3 for more information on organizing your paragraphs.
6. Show your critical thinking about the story by supporting your ideas and paragraphs with
   1. Textual evidence in the form of quotations and details from the story to support interpretations, and
   2. Explication (explanation of your reasoning—how you understand and interpret the evidence).
7. Use Standard Edited American English.
8. Follow MLA formatting conventions.Literature MLA paper narrative.

 

Book pages will be provided and needed to read