Order 1082249: How to Write a Literary Analysis Esssy

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Unit One Essay

Choose any short story from Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. The stories are found between 81-499. You can either choose a story we have covered or one we have not. You will then write an essay of between 700-1000 words, using MLA Format, in which you will analyze one element ( character, plot, setting, theme, style, point of view, tone, or symbolism) of your short story and how that element contributes to the overall meaning or effect of the story. For instance, if you analyze characters in "Two Kinds," do not just describe the two main characters, but make an argument about why Tan constructs them the way shoe does. "How to Write A literary Analysis Essay" will help you as you develop and support an analytical argument about the short story in your essay.  You have also learned about analyzing literature in the assigned readings from our textbook that would be helpful to review. Further, in your textbook, each chapter on fiction contains sample essays that can be helpful to review and model. There is also a sample student essay on iCollege in Unit One. Any questions that you have should be posted in the Course Questions and Answers on the discussion boards as soon as they come up. This essay should NOT include outside source material.  The content should be derived from your own analysis. You must use concrete, cited evidence from the story to support your arguments and analyze how it does so.

Your essay needs to be divided into an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. You need to have a clear, focused, argumentative thesis statement, topic sentences for your body paragraphs, in-text citations for your evidence, and a works cited, in which the short story you use should be the only entry. However, the works cited does not contribute toward the word count of 700-1000 words. 

You are strongly encouraged to seek feedback from others on this assignment.  If you are an on-campus student, tutors in any of the Learning and Tutoring Centers (https://success.students.gsu.edu/learning-tutoring-center/) can review the essay at any stage with you and help you revise and edit. You can also schedule online tutoring through the LTC website. You can also submit your essay to Smart Thinking Online Tutoring. A link to it is in the Student Guide. If you submit an essay to it, you will get it back with comments within 24 hours. I encourage you to submit it at least 48 to 72 hours before the essay is due to give you time to use the feedback in revision. Further, I you can email me questions or drafts and I will give you feedback before you turn your essay in for a grade. Reviewing the grading rubric, which is in the student guide, will familiarize you with criteria I am using to evaluate your essay. 

Once you're satisfied with the final draft, submit your essay to iCollege, there is a place to submit it in content in Unit 1: Week Three, by 11:59pm on Sunday June 24.