state your analytical thesis in the introduction

Format Instructions: MLA format, 6-8 pages (double spaced), with a Works Cited section at the end.

Assignment: For the final paper, you will choose at least two primary texts total we have studied and place them into a an analytical context with each other. Identify a specific theme that links your works and relate this theme to some element(s) of literature we have studied (setting, character, point of view, use of figurative language, imagery, etc.), then craft an analytical thesis to describe this connective logic. Support your thesis by performing close readings of the texts as well as conducting outside research (2 sources), and address the differences in the way your thesis works in these texts.

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Be sure to

• state your analytical thesis in the introduction
• introduce the titles and authors for your texts in the introduction
• present a well-organized argument that develops your central thesis
• use quotations from the texts to support your claims
• cite paraphrases and quotations properly
• analyze the similarities and differences in the functioning of your theme across all of the primary texts you discuss
• include a Works Cited section.
• Use texts from our class ONLY.

• Guidelines for writing the paper 
  All essays in general require a topic and a thesis. In this assignment (and most English paper assignments) you are essentially writing an argumentative essay. In other words you are making some specific claim (your thesis) about a subject and then proving that claim with evidence from the text and from your research. Topics and theses are related but NOT the same thing: topics are much more general than theses. 

  Example:

  Topic	Thesis
  Kindness and the condition of the poor in “The Old Cumberland Beggar”	Wordsworth’s theme of “treat the poor kindly and the community will benefit” represents a sell-out of his earlier, more radical support of the political aims of the French Revolution.

   

  Helpful hints in writing the paper

  Read the poem(s) or passage(s) you intend to use very carefully before you begin to write your paper.

  If you choose a longer work, you will probably need to focus your answer on part(s) of the text. If you choose a very short poem, you might possibly write on more than one. But be careful that you treat each poem thoroughly.

  State your thesis right in the introduction of your paper. Support your thesis with specific details of the poem (or whatever) you are using.  It’s best to be as specific as you can about your work’s actual phrasing, imagery, word choice, plot details, characterization, etc.

   Make sure that you document all quotations and references to other people’s work. Short quotations can be included in the body of your text in double-quotation marks with a citation in parentheses: “Five years have past; five summers, with the length/Of five long winters! and again I hear/These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs . . .” (Wordsworth 1-3).

  Long quotations of three lines or more of writing should be a) indented  b) written out as verse (if poetry) c) double-spaced d) not in quotation marks e) with ending punctuation before documentation: 
   

  “He raised it, however, a little, Signor, but it fell from his hands, and with such a heavy weight upon the floor, that he was sure it held no common booty. Just then, he says, he thought he heard Spalatro coming, and the sound of the sack was enough to have frightened him, and so Marco quitted it; but he was mistaken, and he went to it again. But you don’t seem to hear me, Signor, for you look as you do when you are in those quandaries, so busy a-thinking, and I — ” “Proceed,” said Schedoni, sternly, and renewed his steps, “I hear you.”“Went to it again,” — resumed the peasant, cautiously taking up the story at the last words he had dropped. “He untied the string, Signor, that held the sack, and opened the cloth a little way, but think, Signor, what he must have thought, when he felt — cold flesh! O, Signor! and when he saw by the light of the fire, the face of a corpse within! O, Signor!” — (Radcliffe 328)

  You are required to do outside research on this paper. It might be best, though, first to reflect and brainstorm on the topics and works that might interest you before embarking on your research at the library. Use the sources you need to support the claim and to compete a literature review. 

  When you do refer to an outside source in your paper, give its full title, author, and publication details in a Works Cited list at the end of your paper (use MLA style guidelines). 

  Avoid plagiarism (stealing the words or ideas of another). In this class acts of plagiarism incur a zero and could also result in course failure or expulsion from the university.

  Lastly, please give your paper a title, and please proofread your paper carefully before turning it in.

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