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Essay One: Literary Analysis Essay One Assignment

10/20 Wednesday: Consider the Revision Workshop in Module Two to revise your essay one: thesis sentence, topic sentences, integrating quotations, and analyzing each quote, paramedic method and other OWL links for sentence structure. Refer to the sample title page and works cited page in Module Two. After revising, transfer your essay to paragraph form removing all Roman numerals and letters. Review it carefully for correct essay style and correct paragraph form.

10/22 Friday: Final essay due to submission folder by midnight: Submit the final paper to the Essay One Submission folder. Your essay will be automatically submitted to Turnitin, plagiarism detection software. The paper must include eight paragraphs followed by the works cited page (page 4 or 5). See OWL links on page 3-4.

· Marked-up revisions (content changes) on your complete first draft—at least 7 major revisions recommended in different paragraphs. You will also include editing of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Transfer your outline to formal paragraph structure before submitting your final essay. Indent each paragraph and use formal English, literary present tense, and academic third person. Include MLA style title page (first page) and Works Cited page (last page)

· Final Essay with works cited on last page due (10/22 before midnight)

Assignment:

Develop a 1000+ word essay (3-4 typed pages, 8 paragraphs, double spaced) that presents a literary argument related to one of the topics listed below. Follow the formal outline including an introduction with thesis, exposition (author’s or historical background), confirmation (4 subtopic paragraphs fulfilling the main evidence to support the thesis), concession/refutation (1-2 paragraphs) and conclusion. State your thesis at the end of the brief introductory paragraph. Include 5-10 quotes from the short story to support your thesis and demonstrate your close reading. Use MLA style for each in-text citation (parenthetic citation) and a works cited page. You are not required to use additional sources for this paper; however, you should cite the author of the short story from our anthology and the website from Module Two on the author’s background for paragraph two. Your paper should present your argumentative interpretation of the author’s purpose in “Desiree’s Baby” (81-86) or “Sweetness” (n. pag. Par. 1-18).

Topics: Develop an argumentative thesis responding to the topics below. You must

use quotes from the short story throughout your essay: include at least one quotation from the short story in each body paragraph and in the concession/refutation.

I. Discuss your interpretation of the denouement or resolution of the conflict at the end of the story. What does it suggest about the author’s purpose? What evidence in the story suggests the author’s purpose? Select quotes including a character’s dialogue or action, the narrator’s descriptive details, or the connotations of particular word choices. You may also focus on aspects of the elements of fiction to argue about what they may suggest about the author’s intention.

A. In “Desiree’s Baby” what does the final line suggest about the denouement or resolution of the conflict: “I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery” (86). What discrepancy does this conclusion reveal about Armand’s treatment of Desiree and her ultimate fate?

The actual misfortune of Desiree’s marriage reveals the extent Armand will go to deny his true identity so that he can maintain hegemony and dominate all that he encounters from his sudden love of Desiree, to his treatment of the slaves on his plantation, his rejection of Desiree and their child, and his destruction of all remnants of her life.

Refer to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):

MLA style format includes no separate title page; paginate all pages in a header, use complete heading add original title, double-space throughout, and alphabetize each entry on the work cited page by the author’s last name. (You will only have two or three entries)

MLA Style: Heading and title page:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/ml a_general_format.html

MLA Style Sample Paper:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.ht ml

MLA Style: In-text citations:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/ml a_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

MLA Style: Works Cited:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_pag e_basic_format.html

Sample Works Cited page:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/ml a_sample_works_cited_page.html

Sentence Revision: Paramedic Method:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/paramedic_method.html

Eliminate wordiness / Be concise. Use precise words (more concrete and specific)

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/conciseness/index.html

Eliminate excessive detail:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/conciseness/eliminating_words.ht

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