1,500 words essay and self review

Requirement

Semester Project

Introduction

For this assignment, you will take the texts you examined in the Close Reading and Contextual Analysis 1 and 2 papers and develop your findings into a compare/contrast paper. A compare/contrast essay looks at the ways ideas or things are the same or different in order to understand their relationship to one another, and also "what is most important about them" (" Comparing and Contrasting (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. " from The Writing Center at UNC). You will compare/contrast the texts using the contextual analysis from both essays. For example, if you examined religion in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Confessions, your compare/contrast essay will examine religion in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Confessions.

For more information on how to write a compare/contrast essay, check  The Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  site from UNC. 

Note: I designed this project so you could reuse portions of the Close Reading an Contextual Analysis papers. I strongly recommend you take my feedback for those papers under consideration as you develop the Compare/Contrast essay. 

Length

· 1,500 words, or six pages double-spaced, with a works cited page. Please note: the works cited page does not count towards the word count. 

Requirements

For this assignment, you will compare a contextual aspect of two primary texts.The primary texts are the ones you selected for the close reading and contextual analysis papers. The contextual aspect for the comparison/contrast essay should be the same topic you explored in the close reading and contextual analysis papers.

Note: if you are experiencing writer's block on this assignment, shoot me a message via Canvas or e-mail! I'm happy to help you brainstorm. 

Additional requirements include:

· A completed  Self-Review Worksheet  (click to download)

· One revised draft, with a minimum of two popular resources and two scholarly resource. You may cite the same sources used in the Close Reading and Contextual Analysis Papers 1 & 2

· Information on popular and scholarly resources:  http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=83917&p=3747680 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· Note: you should check the library resources link in our Canvas site!

· EXTRA CREDIT Opportunity: submit proof of Writing Center visit for an additional 5 points.

Format

· MLA-style formatting. Please reference the Purdue OWL’s MLA-Style guide, located at:  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_general_format.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Submission

· Completed Self-Review Worksheet AND revised draft via the Revised Final Draft of Semester Project assignment link in Canvas