help with final due in 72 hours

Hi guys, 

The end of the semester is fast approaching! You final exam is a essay on a short novel: 

You choose Anne of Green Gables, The Princess Bride or My Antonia.

Click on the instructions and read them carefully. Remember that this is not a research paper. You use quotes from the novel to expand/support the thesis.

Final EXAM Essay 

Please attach the final draft of your midterm essay here.  Before turning in, please ensure that you have:

1) Proofread thoroughly for grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.

2) Formatted all of your quotations in MLA Style.

3) Observed all of the Academic Writing Pet Peeves in the Week 1 Module ( very important)

4) Included a Works Cited page

You are responsible for reading and following these instructions, which are essential to a successful outcome in any essay. You must not submit work done for another course anyone other than yourself.

 This assignment will help you:

1. analyze and discuss works of fiction;

2. use appropriate literary terms to discuss a selection;

3. write critical essays using patterns of development introduced and practiced in English 101;

The  Short Novel assignment is to do a critical analysis of the terms list we examined at  the beginning of the semester using these terms:

You choose  Anne of Green Gables, The Princess Bride or My Antonia.

This is NOT a research paper....only use quotes from the novel to support your thesis.

Terminology.pptx Download Terminology.pptx

Pick one or two terms only and craft a thesis around them to apply to your reading of the novel.

 Composition textbook as the source, which you will cite parenthetically in the body paragraphs, and with the “Works Cited” page as the last page, according to MLA. Must be at least 800 words 

 You must have at least one direct quote in every body paragraph

For the essay, your only direct quotes will be from the novel itself.

 

This assignment has two goals:

1. You will support your thesis with quotes (only from the story itself) to produce an essay that is a commentary of how the story represents something beyond “the events of the story”.

Lecture - Quotes

 

Formatting:  

· Font: Times New Roman 12 pt.

· 4 full pages  (not including the works cited page)     

· Margins and Spacing: 1” and double-spaced (no exceptions).

· Page numbers in the header on the top right (at ½”) as shown on this document. If they are not in the header, the formatting of the entire paper will be off.

· Heading: Put your first and last name, class and section number, the date, and the assignment in the top left corner at the 1”margin.       Put my name as “Instructor Jones .”

 Grading:

Any work that does not meet the word count requirement, is submitted late or is about a story or poem that was no assigned will receive a zero

A paper that does not have the required number of no quotations/citations will receive a minimum grade of 70%(this is where I start grading).

 

A paper that has quotes that are not introduced, or uses 1ST or 2nd person , or have repeated past tense verbs minimum grade of 80% (this is where I start grading)

 

1. Remember that all your verbs need to be in present tense (including in your direct quotes   You must have at least 2 direct quotes per body paragraph.

2. Make sure you have a direct quote that is both introduced and cited correctly in every body paragraph (which means NO quotes in the introduction and conclusion

3. Watch out for pot summary

4. Make sure to spell both the author's name in any names of the characters correctly

5. Do not end a body paragraph with a citation

6. Make sure to include topic sentences, which connects your thesis, in the first sentence of each body paragraph

7. Do not forget that your thesis statement should be the last sentence of your introductory paragraph

8. All of your direct quotes must be introduced and cited