Research question: Is Harriet Beetcher Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin a racist text or an anti-racist text? Give reasons for your answer.

Research question: Is Harriet Beetcher Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin a racist text or an anti-racist text? Give reasons for your answer.

Requirements: 

• Introduction (c200 words)

• 3 Body paragraphs (c250 words each)

• Short conclusion (c100 words)

• Include at least 2 academic sources

= 1000 word essay

Introduction:

• Set up the issue in an interesting and engaging way

• DO NOT include general backgrounds, biographies, etc.

• Get to the point quickly

• Write a thesis statement in one coherent, grammatical sentence

Body paragraph:

• INCLUDE TOPIC SENTENCE EXPLANATIONS AND TEXTUAL EVIDENCE 

• Textual evidence should be from PRIMARY and SECONDARY sources

• Secondary sources should be from Library databases, google scholar, or google books, not from ehow, wiki, etc…

• Textual evidence is usually quoted, not paraphrased in literary essays

• Should be developed through the use of quotations, summary, details, and explanation to support the topic sentence. 

• Must relate back to the thesis statement.

Conclusion:

• Keep them brief

• restate the thesis in different words

• summarize the main points you have made, very briefly – do not be repetitive

• Make a relevant comment about the literary work you are analyzing, but from a different perspective. 

• Do not introduce a new topic in your conclusion. 

• Finish with a strong sentence / final reelection