Ghost of King Hamlet tells Prince Hamlet that he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, and tells Hamlet to avenge his death, which Hamlet swears to d

• Topic-Ghost of King Hamlet tells Prince Hamlet that he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, and tells Hamlet to avenge his death, which Hamlet swears to do – however, he has to find proof of the ghost’s story, so he decides to put on an antic disposition.
• Literary Analysis Essay Assignment:-Comprehensively analyze a major theme, character, conflict, or relationship in the play, Hamlet, using at least one critical, secondary source from a literary database accessed through OCC’s library website.
  -Length: The paper must be a minimum of six well-developed paragraphs, with the content, format, and structure shown on the outline provided in the Learning Resources folder. The paper must include a critical secondary source from OCC’s literary databases. Both the primary and the secondary texts must be used in each supporting paragraph. The paper must be in MLA format.

  -Learning Resources folder: Detailed writing, research writing, and MLA format instructions, as well as outlines and other supporting materials, are found in the Learning Resources folder and in the unit and in the Writing About Drama chapter in the textbook.

• Grading rubric criteria for each category:

  Title:1. Your essay must have a title that reflects your main argument/claim/assertion and/or topic.2. Your title should not be the title of a work you’re analyzing.3. Do not underline, quote, or italicize your own title.Introduction and thesis:1. An introduction must be a full-length paragraph, that is coherent, meaning it has at least six sentences that relate to each other logically. The title and author of the literary text must be included.2. The intro needs to be coherent–the idea/subject in each sentence needs to follow logically and smoothly from the sentence preceding it and it needs to lead logically into the sentence following it. All sentences and ideas must be connected. The relationship between sentences must be evident and logical.3. The thesis statement must be integrated coherently. It should not be abrupt and it must lead to the first supporting paragraph.4. Your intro should be engaging, interesting, inventive, attention-getting.5. Your thesis needs to state the main idea or topic of the essay. It must make a claim or assertion about the literary piece that the entire essay works to validate or defend. The thesis includes 3-5 supporting details that will be developed in the essay’s supporting paragraphs. Each support listed in the thesis must become a supporting paragraph in the essay. The thesis can be more than one sentence.6. Your thesis needs a clear, strong claim and more clear, stronger supports listed, and it needs to correspond to the content of the supporting paragraphs.7. Your thesis must not be an announcement of intent such as, In this essay I will…8. When writing a literary analysis, always refer to the name of the literary work(s) and author(s) on which your essay is based. Always refer to authors thereafter by their last name.Supporting Paragraphs / Analysis and interpretation:1. You must analyze the subject and show how you came to your conclusions about it: explain how and why (your analysis occurs in the supporting paragraphs only).2. To develop a comprehensive analysis consider the following questions: What do I think? Why? How can I support my interpretation? The main point of each paragraph must be supported with relevant, meaningful, and thoughtful interpretation, analysis, and reasoning that show engagement with and comprehension of the full literary text. (Do not use I phrasing: I think, I feel, I believe. See Writing Skills below.)3. Be sure to develop your ideas fully and comprehensively. Always explain the importance of your point and how it relates to your thesis.4. You must take a stand or a position on an issue or idea pertaining to literary work. A thesis is never a fact or summary; rather a thesis makes a point or an argument. The supporting paragraphs validate and support your point/argument with interpretation and analysis of the text.5. You must advocate or defend your claim/argument/position, which is stated explicitly.6. You must persuade readers to accept your position as valid, with reasoning, analysis, and supporting evidence from the literary work.Supporting Paragraph Structure and Content:(In the LR folder, there is a sample outline that you can copy-paste into a document to use for supporting paragraphs.)1. Each paragraph must be complex and well developed (10-12 on average), and there must be four supporting paragraphs.2. Each paragraph must be coherent and unified with the topic sentence and the thesis. Coherency is the order and progression of the content (the flow of the work) and unity is the relationship between each part (all points, subjects, etc are unified with the thesis and topic sentence).

  3. Each paragraph must focus on one main idea or point (which should correspond to the thesis’s supports and be stated in a topic sentence)4. Paragraphs should be ordered coherently so that the main idea of each paragraph builds logically toward the conclusion. Your supporting paragraphs should follow the order of the points listed in your thesis.5. Your paragraphs should begin with a topic sentence, followed by one or more supporting quotes, interpretation of the quotes, analysis of the text, and reasoning. End the paragraph with a closing statement and a transition that leads to the next idea in the next supporting paragraph. The paragraph shouldn’t just lose steam or abruptly switch ideas. The paragraph needs to be closed and connected to the thesis and to the next paragraph.6. Each supporting paragraph must include at least one quote from the primary text and one quote from the secondary source (research article). When quoting you must explain how and why the quote is being used. Lead to the quote with a context for its use, then interpret and analyze the quote to show its importance to your analysis and argument, agree with it, disagree with it, expand upon it, etc.

  Conclusion:1. Your conclusion must be at least six sentences that are unified and coherent.2. Your conclusion should not simply summarize the essay or re-state the thesis. It should provide a satisfying conclusion to the arguments or claims that your supporting paragraphs validated and proved, a connection from your paper to the world today or to the human condition.Quality of Writing:1. Always avoid the use of the first and second person tense (I, me, my, we, our, you) when analyzing literature: Sentences beginning with the first person tense I, my, or me unless you’re using your life experience as a supporting example or detail (this is rarely used in literary analysis essays). Do not need to use phrases such as I think, I feel, or I believe. Instead, state your idea directly in order to make a powerful, strong assertion: Instead of writing, I believe Sammy is a young man coming of age, write: Sammy is a young man coming of age.2. Use transitions to promote a “flow” between sentences. Readers should be able to read through paragraphs smoothly. Transitions show the relationship between ideas and act as road signs indicating where the essay is heading.3. Always avoid empty or vague pronouns such as this, thing, something, it, etc. The empty pronoun takes place of a subject or noun that you need to articulate as the writer. Instead of the pronoun this, use a noun phrase to reiterate and clarify your subject or point, which is usually stated a few sentences before the one beginning with this. Empty pronouns also function as “dummy” subjects or empty subjects: this, it, things, that is used in the sentence instead of a well-articulated, specific subject. Avoid referring to the reader with generic you. 4. Consider word choices and phrasing. Are you expressing your ideas well? Present your ideas with the best words and in the smartest way possible.5. Edit out wordiness and excess in sentences. 7. Use grammar and spell checkers.Research and MLA Format:1. All quotes should be cited parenthetically (refer to the Learning Resources folder in the course, which has a section on MLA and sample essays in MLA format for you to use as a guide). Generally, a parenthetical citation includes the author’s last name and the page number, without a comma and without the word or abbreviation for page, followed by the period that ends the sentence: (Smith 22).2. Make sure all quotes are formatted correctly in MLA format, and with correct grammatical content.3. Quotes must be introduced with a lead-in or be fully integrated into the sentence or it must be introduced. Quotes must be grammatically correct when they are used as part of a sentence. Never “sandwich” or “dump” quotes between sentences. See directions and examples in the LR folder.4. Do not over quote. Only quote sentences, words, or phrases that are significant to your analysis. You rarely need to include quotes longer than one to three sentences, maximum. Instead of long quotes, paraphrase. A paraphrase, like a quote, must be cited parenthetically as you’re re-telling someone else’s idea in your own words. The original nexus is not yours, so you must give credit where credit is due. A paraphrase or summary is often used to lead to a quote, to provide the context. For longer quotes, use ellipsis marks to shorten a quote as needed. See the LR folder to learn about ellipsis marks and brackets.5. Do not follow a quote with phrases such as This quote says or In this quote. See Quality of Writing #3 above. Instead, articulate the point or subject of the quote and connect it to your interpretation and analysis. What are you gleaning from the quote? Why is it significant? What does the quote prove?
  6. Appropriate and relevant secondary sources are incorporated into each supporting paragraph to develop analysis and reasoning in support of a thesis. The secondary source must be from OCC’s databases. See the LR folder for directions and resources.
  7. A work cited page is included after the conclusion. Include the primary text and an entry for each secondary source used in a paper.

  A resource to help with essays: https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/david.james/engl…

• Title of your paper (not the title of the literary text)
  Par. 1  
  Introduction:  Begin with a generalized, but a related statement.  Move to the title of the text and the author, followed by a 1-2 sentence summary of the text, then offer a central idea for the paper (the essential aspect of the text related to the thesis) and, finally, a thesis (1-3 sentences stating the main topic and main point/argument of the paper).  Be sure the central idea and thesis have “keywords” that re-appear in some form (exactly or with a synonym) in the topic sentences; the supporting paragraphs should follow the order of topics/points established in the thesis. You will have four supporting paragraphs, so be sure the thesis is complex enough.
  Supporting Pars. 2 -3-4-5 (these paragraphs are each have one main topic and point to support the thesis)
  1. topic sentence (state topic and point of the paragraph- the topic sentence should have a keyword or synonym in common with the thesis for unity and coherency)
  1-2 sentences
  2.  Connect the topic sentence to the literary text – explain something about the text, and make a point.
  1-2 sentences
  3. Write a sentence with a supporting quote from the literary text. Paraphrase the quote and/or provide a context with the literary piece in relation to the topic sentence (usually providing a context and connection to the literary text and then connecting the context to the point of the quote) then add the quote from the literary text followed by a citation.
  1 sentence followed by the quote.
  4. Analyze the quote. Explain what it is about and why it is important (what is revealed or proven by the quote? how does the quote support your claim?). Do not begin the sentence with “This quote shows or This quote says).
  2-3 sentences
  5. Write a sentence or phrase providing a point or context for the research quote. Provide a supporting quote from a research source (OCC’s literary databases) in a sentence (follow with a citation: author’s last name).
  1 sentence followed by the quote.
  6. Interpret and analyze the research quote and connect it to your own analysis. Synthesize your ideas and analysis with the point being made in the quote.
  2-3 sentences
  7. Concluding statement to close the paragraph, bringing the analysis of the paragraph to a close.
  1-2 sentences
  8. Transition sentence to the next topic
  [repeat all or parts of steps 2-5 for a longer paragraph]
  1 sentence
  Par. 6.  Conclusion:   What are the final points about your topic?  What did you prove or validate in the supporting paragraphs?  What thoughts or points do you want to reiterate to the reader? What do you want the reader to think about after the paper is finished?
  Works Cited: Alpha order. Include the primary text (the literary text) and secondary sources (the research articles used in the paper).

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