Literary Analysis Essay: Breaking out Poet Study

Essay for ENG Unit 3: Breaking out Poet Study

Source Material:

Resources in Unit

3 Research

sources

Background:

In Unit 3, you have read, viewed, and discussed resources on authors who have broken out of their traditional styles and formats.

Prompt:

Choose one of the authors from Unit 3 and research how your author “broke away” from his/her previously accepted norms of poetry writing.

You will need to have at least two outside sources (in addition to the poetry sources) that you will incorporate into your response. These sources must be valuable and reliable.

Task:

Choose a poet that is presented in Unit 3 (Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, or Dickenson) Use the resources available and at least two research resources and analyze

how your chosen author’s writing style and poems break away from the norms that were followed prior to his/her break out poetry

You will be writing a 2-3 page essay that analyzes this prompt. Be sure to include information on

o The structures, themes, and writing styles that were the norm prior to your author.

o How your chosen author broke away from this norm. Use both your resources and text examples from the poems to support your response.

Instructions:

Write a 2-3 page essay with a thesis statement that asserts your main answer to the prompt.

Use ideas, paraphrases, and quotes from researched sources and poetry sources to support your own ideas. Be sure to format these citations according to APA formatting guidelines. Remember that these sources need to be valid and reliable.

Your audience for this response will be people who are familiar with the author and his/her poems, but have not researched how the author broke away from the prior norms. This will eliminate the need to summarize or add plot-heavy detail.

Literary Analysis Essay: Breaking out Poet Study

ENG213—Poetry

Requirements:

 Your response should be 2-3 pages.  Your response should have a properly APA formatted title page.  Your response should have properly formatted in-text citations.  Your response should have a properly formatted reference page  It should also be double spaced, written in Times New Roman, in 12 point font

and with 1 inch margins.  Use the third-person, objective voice, avoiding personal pronouns such as

“I,” “you,” “we,” etc.

 Please be cautious about plagiarism. Make sure to use internal citations

for direct quotes, paraphrases, and new information.

Students: Be sure to read before you write, and again after you write.

Rubric for the Literary Analysis Essay: Breaking Out Poet Study

Does Not Meet

Expectation s 0-11

Meet Expectation

s 12-13

Needs Improveme

nt 14-15

Satisfactor y

16-17

Meets Expectation

s 18-20

Approach/Struct ure

The essay

does not have

a clear

approach and

the structure is

varied so that

the essay

information

cannot be

understood.

The essay’s

approach is

confusing/ha

rd and/or

the

structure is

limited.

The essay

has an

adequately

clear

approach

and/or varies

often in

structure,

making the

information difficult to follow.

The essay

has a clear

approach

and/or is

generally well

organized.

Some

variations

might pull the

reader’s attention.

The essay has

a clear

approach and is

effectively

organized.

Thesis Statement

There is no

thesis

statement

present in the

pitch.

The thesis

statement

is

attempted

but unclear

and hard to

follow.

The poetic

thesis

statement is

present with

some areas

that could be

clarified.

The thesis

statement is

present and

generally

easy to

follow.

The thesis

statement is

present, clear,

and easy to

follow.

Textual

Support and

Integration of

Information

Textual support

is not present or

no sources are

indicated.

Very little

textual

support is

given and

integrated

properly.

Textual

support may

not relate to

the thesis

statement.

Very few

sources are

present in

the pitch.

Some textual

support is

given and

integrated

properly.

Sources

are

somewhat

related to

the thesis

statement,

but more

appropriate

sources

could be used.

The required

sources are

present and

generally

relate to the

thesis.

Sources are

directly related

to the thesis.

Sources are

logical and will

serve the

writer’s purpose

well.

APA

Format APA format is

not followed.

Few APA

conventions

are followed,

and may be

incorrectly formatted.

Some APA

conventions

are followed,

although not

always correctly.

APA

conventions

followed with

some errors

evident throughout.

Free of many to

all errors in

APA

conventions.

Grammar and

Mechanics

Grammar and

mechanics’

errors make the

essay

incomprehensibl

e.

Grammar,

spelling,

punctuation,

and

mechanics

errors occur

throughout

document.

Word

choices are

seldom

academic.

Sentence

structure may

Several

errors in

grammar,

punctuation,

spelling and

mechanics

present.

Word choice

reveals some

understandin

g of

academic

language requirements.

Some

spelling,

grammar,

punctuation

and

mechanical

errors are

evident.

Academic

language is

upheld. The

sentence

structure is often logical and

Free of

punctuation,

spelling,

grammar, and

other mechanical

errors.

Consistent use

of academic

word choices.

Sentence

structure is

mostly logical

and clear.

be illogical

or unclear.

Many

sentence

structure

issues exist.

clear so that

relationships

among ideas

are

established.