11:50 .5G ||| > evidence ditu dialysis vi uitd evidence to defend your thesis. Requirements The essay should be at least 800 words in length. You must create an original title. You must have a strong, argumentative thesis statement that clearly lays out what you will discuss in your paper. You should support your thesis with textual analysis and evidence from the text (quotes). Include proper MLA citations and Works Cited page. Write in the formal 3rd person. AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu KM 11:51 .5G ||| > KM Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Be sure to double space the entire paper. Include an MLA-style header in the top left corner and running page numbers in the margins. Topics: Option 1: Answer the question of whether a character from one of the stories is round or flat AND static or dynamic, giving proof for each assertion. Also, what is their motivation for action/behavior? Option 2: What is the theme of the story? Use details from the story to prove the theme. Reminder: a theme AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu 11:51 .5G ||| > KM Option 2: What is the theme of the story? Use details from the story to prove the theme. Reminder: a theme must be more than one word (containing a subject and verb). You will not receive credit if you say that the theme was "love" or "family." In the course of your analysis, you should choose specific textual references, analyze their impact, and demonstrate how those references contribute to the central argument you are advancing about the text's principal theme or fundamental message. Option 3: Analyze a a specific literary element used in the story. Fully explore how it is used and the author's purpose. Explain how literary element Literary elements. Forecho AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu 11:51 .5G ||| KM > about the text's principal theme or fundamental message. Option 3: Analyze a a specific literary element used in the story. Fully explore how it is used and the author's purpose. Explain how literary element (Literary elements = Foreshadowing, mood, setting, diction, symbolism, point of view, etc.) is used to create/enhance the effectiveness of the author's message. Tips: Make sure that your central argument is supportable and debatable: pick something that will be interesting to prove. For instance, do not argue that "The Storm" is a story about a woman having an affair. Instead, you might AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu m 11:51 . 5G ||| KM > Tips: C Make sure that your central argument is supportable and debatable: pick something that will be interesting to prove. For instance, do not argue that "The Storm" is a story about a woman having an affair. Instead, you might claim that it should be read as a critique of the institution of marriage; should be read as a critique about patriarchal expectations for women; should be read as a psychological examination of a character incapable of resisting temptation, etc. Use the text. Successful analysis of fiction or any literary work depends on skillful evaluation of how the text creates meaning. Your insight matters, AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu m 11:51 . 5G ||| KM > C critique of the institution of marriage; should be read as a critique about patriarchal expectations for women; should be read as a psychological examination of a character incapable of resisting temptation, etc. Use the text. Successful analysis of fiction or any literary work depends on skillful evaluation of how the text creates meaning. Your insight matters, but it should be insight derived from analysis of textual evidence. Note: this is not a research paper. I am much more interested in your personal analysis of a text and original ideas. Essential Question Examples: 1) In Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," how and why AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu 12:01 ||| Ill 5G KM > AA Grading Expectations A: The "A" essay thoroughly develops a significant and well- considered central idea from a consistent point of view. Organization of sentences and paragraph is effective, and smooth transitions connect ideas. The presentation is unified, clear, coherent, and concise and has varied sentence structure. The paper demonstrates mastery of formal elements of essay writing, and meets all special stipulations of the assignment. The "A" essay is outstanding in its synthesis of these characteristics. B: The "B" essay has a sound and onlcourses.tridenttech.edu 12:01 Ill 5G ||| > KM English 102 Essay 1 Writing Guidelines and Information The Short Story Analysis Essay asks that you engage in a close, critical reading of a single short story, using evidence from the text to support your thesis (arguments) and claims (supporting ideas). Choose from one of the topics below the requirements, locate essential questions you wish to answer within that framework, and create an argument that answers those questions. From there, each paragraph will make use of textual evidence and analysis of that evidence to defend your thesis. AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu 12:01 Ill 5G ||| KM > C evidence from the text to support your thesis (arguments) and claims (supporting ideas). Choose from one of the topics below the requirements, locate essential questions you wish to answer within that framework, and create an argument that answers those questions. From there, each paragraph will make use of textual evidence and analysis of that evidence to defend your thesis. Requirements The essay should be at least 800 AA words in length. You must create an original title. You must have a strong, onlcourses.tridenttech.edu m > ||| 5:26 A Guide to Literary Analysis ADVICE FOR WRITING A SUCCESSFUL ESSAY Partially adapted from the Buck's County Community College Library: https://www.bucks.edu/media/bcccmedialibrary/pdf/HOWTOWRITEALITERARYANALYSISESSAY 10.15.07_0 01.pdf Literary Analysis The goals of literary analysis are similar to those of the rhetorical analysis from 101. You want to examine specific elements of a work with the goal of seeing how it works or serves the overall theme. Rather than rhetorical devices/strategies, you'll be looking at specific literary devices/strategies (setting, point of view, foreshadowing, characterization, imagery, figurative language, etc...). AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu m Ill 5G KM == 5:27 Ill 5G Literary Analysis The goals of literary analysis are similar to those of the rhetorical analysis from 101. You want to examine specific elements of a work with the goal of seeing how it works or serves the overall theme. Rather than rhetorical devices/strategies, you'll be looking at specific literary devices/strategies (setting, point of view, foreshadowing, characterization, imagery, figurative language, etc...). Literary Analysis Your discussion questions have been building toward sustaining this kind of work. The topic prompts from the assignment sheet were also designed to help you narrow down your ideas. Now the only thing to do is to decide on a working thesis, select textual evidence to support it, and organize that work into a coherent essay form. < AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu m KM == > < 5:27 Ill 5G The Intro and Thesis Statement The thesis statement you use should ultimately reflect your topic choice answer your essential question(s). It will come at the end of the introductory paragraph, in which you introduce your subject and hook the reader. Do not simply summarize your story; instead, use the intro as an opportunity to organize the ideas relevant to your essay. The Intro and Thesis Statement O For example: The setting of John Updike's story A & P is crucial to the reader's understanding of Sammy's decision to quit his job. Even though Sammy knows that his quitting will make life more difficult for him, he instinctively insists upon rejecting what the A & P represents in the story. When he rings up a No Sale" and "saunter[s]" out of the store, Sammy leaves behind not only a job but the rigid state of mind associated with the A & P. Although Sammy is the central character in the story, Updike seems to invest as much effort in describing the setting as he does Sammy. The title, after all, is not Youthful Rebellion or Sammy Quits" but "A & P." The setting is the antagonist of the story and plays a role that is as important as Sammy's. Note that the intro focuses on illustrating the key ideas of the essay to follow, relying less on summary and more on a thorough explanation of the argument itself. The thesis statement is underlined. AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu KM == 5:27 Ill 5G naffft TANIIN OF 111AMA1910 OTOAIM ALLT The Body The body paragraphs will then develop this thesis by using textual evidence (summary/ paraphrase/quotations from the story itself) and commentary/analysis of that evidence that ties it to the thesis. . . Each body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that illustrates a single main idea and relates the evidence that follows to the thesis. Then, provide the evidence, followed by commentary/analysis. The Body Topic Sentence Sammy's descriptions of the A & P present a setting that is ugly, monotonous, and rigidly regulated. Textual Evidence The chain store is a common fixture in modern society, so the reader can identify with the uniformity Sammy describes. The fluorescent light is as blandly cool as the "checkerboard green-and- cream rubber tile floor" (486). The traffic in the store moves in one direction (except for the swim suited girls, who move against it), and everything is neatly organized and categorized in tidy aisles. The dehumanizing routine of this environment is suggested by Sammy's offhand references to the typical shoppers as "sheep," "house slaves," and "pigs" (486). These regular customers seem to walk through the store in a stupor; as Sammy indicates, not even dynamite could move them out of their routine (185) AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu KM 5:27 Ill 5G ||| Topic Sentence Textual Evidence The Body & Sammy's descriptions of the A & P present a setting that is ugly, monotonous, and rigidly regulated. The chain store is a common fixture in modern society, so the reader can identify with the uniformity Sammy describes. The fluorescent light is as blandly cool as the "checkerboard green-and- cream rubber tile floor" (486). The traffic in the store moves in one direction (except for the swim suited girls, who move against it), and everything is neatly organized and categorized in tidy aisles. The dehumanizing routine of this environment is suggested by Sammy's offhand references to the typical shoppers as "sheep," "house slaves," and "pigs" (486). These regular customers seem to walk through the store in a stupor; as Sammy indicates, not even dynamite could move them out of their routine (485). The Body Note how the content of the example flows from the main idea proposed in the topic sentence. All evidence corresponds directly to that idea. Note, also, that all direct quotations/ summary/paraphrases are cited using the page number on which the material is found. Since your chosen story is the only source, all in-text citations should be page numbers; you don't even have to use the author's name. < AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu KM 5:27 Ill 5G == The Conclusion KM Conclusions in any essay are always tricky, and the form yours takes should be appropriate to your topic choice. You could simply summarize your argument in different words. If you're analyzing a story in service of an argument regarding a specific theme, however, you may wish to illustrate the story's relevance to the issue the theme addresses. Think in terms of Gilman's story as an early feminist text and how its ideas and importance persist to this day. The conclusion should not, however, include new ideas/argumentation or evidence. Wrap things up and close the door, so to speak. The Works Cited Page The essay should also include a Works Cited page (this will not factor into the total word count).It should begin on its own page and will look something like this: Last Name, First Name. Title of Story. The Norton Introduction to Literature, edited by Kelly J. Mays, Norton, 2022, pp. 499-508. Make sure that each line after the first in indented, not the other way around. < AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu 5:27 Ill 5G ||| KM > The Works Cited Page The essay should also include a Works Cited page (this will not factor into the total word count).It should begin on its own page and will look something like this: Last Name, First Name. Title of Story. The Norton Introduction to Literature, edited by Kelly J. Mays, Norton, 2022, pp. 499-508. Make sure that each line after the first in indented, not the other way around. Some Additional Advice . If you're unsure whether you should cite, then just cite to be safe. You can go over the 800-word minimum, but keep it below 2000 words. Do not wait until the last minute to begin drafting. Give yourself time to organize your ideas and revise. Draw upon your experiences in 101 in terms of structuring, proofreading, and editing the work. Do not plagiarize or utilize AI to write your essay (obviously). Try to get invested and have fun with the process. One of the goals of this course is to build appreciation. Utilize office hours, email me questions, and make use of the writing center. AA onlcourses.tridenttech.edu