The Assignment
You are asked to write a literary argumentative paper by taking one or two of the stories/ poems we have covered in class and proving through a use of text (quotes and paraphrases of significant passages of the story/ poem) and several research sources that the authors and/ or poets intend a clearly stated theme. Analyze the way the author uses two or three literary devices to lead the reader to an understanding of that theme. Your paper will be at least three and a half full pages long, but should not be longer than seven full pages. Include a separate alphabetized works cited page. Use MLA format.
Story: “Everyday Use -alice walker
-this is a really short story
** Introduction, including thesis; also, alphabetized works cited
– Due as a single submission Monday, November 2
**Two body sections of the rough draft of your analysis, including at least two citations from the text and two citations from one or more secondary sources (MLA format);
Also, peer response to at least two classmates (I will do)
Due the week of November 9-13.
**Final paper and works cited, including at least three academic sources
Due by Monday, November 23 at 11:59 pm in the final submission site posted
1. Make a statement about your favorite of these topics. The statement should reflect the author’s views. In other words, what is the author trying to say about the topic of love, death, freedom, childhood, social equality, identity, etc. in this text?
5. What is the other side? What would those who do not particularly agree with your author say in a contradictory statement?
6. Join those two statements together to form an ‘Although’ thesis statement. This is your thesis statement. Go ahead and write the introduction, including this thesis and turn it in as instructed.
II. Gathering Research and Creating a Works Cited
https://campbell.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?facet=&vid=01CAMPBELL_INST:01CAMPBELL&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&offset=0&query=any,contains,everyday%20use%20alice%20walker
things to keep in mind:
(a) The articles, books, other sources created by scholars analyzing the same specific texts you are researching
(b) The research of scholars analyzing the body of work provided by your author
(c) The articles, etc. of scholars researching the works of your author’s peers and times. What school of writers includes your writer? Ex: Harlem Renaissance
(d) Other research you can imagine including to help clarify and support your analysis of these texts.
7. Create the alphabetized works cited featuring at least three academic sources.
III. Planning the Paper
8. Start planning the paper by identifying three literary elements that you feel your author uses to get the theme (identified in the thesis) across to readers. EX: conflict, setting, irony, symbolism, figurative language (includes metaphor), line and stanza breaks, repetition, characterization, point of view (1st or 3rd), exaggeration (hyperbole), meter, allegory, allusion, etc.
9. Plan your organization around these elements. Find specific evidence of the writer’s use of these elements in the text that point readers toward the theme you have already identified in the thesis. Plan how to use your research within that discussion.
10. Pay attention to MLA format. Look up how to cite your author’s text and secondary research. Look over the sample research papers.
IV. Writing and Revising the Paper
11. Once you are ready to start forming paragraphs, think of the paper in terms of sections. Rough draft it. Get it down.
SAMPLE PAPER IS ATTACHED
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