Write an argumentative
Essay 1 Prompt
MLA Style, 3 page length
Due April 4th, 2016
Write an argumentative essay in which you analyze how the Salvadoran poets, Roque Dalton and
Alfonso Quijada Urias, represent the conflict between the Salvadoran State and the Salvadoran
people during the period of armed struggle (revolution). Feel free to choose the poems that you
analyze, including the ones we did not read in class but which are in the reader. You may, if you
so choose, only focus on one of the poets.
Remember that you must provide a thesis in your introductory paragraph, present and develop
one idea in each body paragraph, and not write more or less than the three pages. Turn in a hard-
copy on the assigned date and on the turn-it-in link on our Moodle page.
Essay 1 Prompt
MLA Style, 3 page length
Due April 4th, 2016
Write an argumentative essay in which you analyze how the Salvadoran poets, Roque Dalton and
Alfonso Quijada Urias, represent the conflict between the Salvadoran State and the Salvadoran
people during the period of armed struggle (revolution). Feel free to choose the poems that you
analyze, including the ones we did not read in class but which are in the reader. You may, if you
so choose, only focus on one of the poets.
Remember that you must provide a thesis in your introductory paragraph, present and develop
one idea in each body paragraph, and not write more or less than the three pages. Turn in a hard-
copy on the assigned date and on the turn-it-in link on our Moodle page.
