Critical Response Paper Assignment
ENG 110 Critical Response Paper Assignment SheetThis paper is worth 100 points. For this assignment, you must first read E.M. Forster’s science fiction short story “The Machine Stops,” which is posted to our Canvas course page, and one of the assigned critical academic articles about “The Machine Stops.” The links to those articles are posted to our Canvas course page, and you will have to log in as a KVCC student when you click on those links to access the articles. In your critical response paper, you must summarize the critical article and argue why you agree or disagree with it. Your summary must be properly paraphrased in your own words and sentence structure. Your response to the critical argument should show your support for or your refutation of the critical argument. In other words, using evidence including direct quotations from the primary work (“The Machine Stops”), show why you agree with or disagree with the critical article.You also may choose your own critical article, critical essay, or a chapter from a published book (print or online) about E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” instead of using one of the articles posted to our Canvas course page. But the article must be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, and the essay or book chapter must have been published in an academic book. Additionally, acceptable articles, essays, or chapters will have authors named. You may not use an article, essay, or chapter that has an anonymous source or was not peer-reviewed. If you choose an article other than one of the articles posted to our Canvas course page, you should get the article approved by me well in advance of the peer response deadline if you have any doubts about whether it is acceptable. If the article you evaluate is not acceptable, your paper may earn a 0 grade.The reason I have posted the approved critical articles to our Canvas course page is to ensure that you have acceptable options. Because of the difficulties posed by COVID-19 restrictions, we cannot visit the library for a research orientation, so I am trying to be helpful to you by supplying acceptable critical articles.
2Important Information about Summarizing:To write an accurate summary of another’s words is beneficial to your development as a student and thinker in many ways. Before you can respond productively to another’s argument, you must be able to understand that argument. Additionally, taking the time to comprehend and to synthesize what you have read will improve your reading and critical thinking skills.A summary is a restatement of what you have read in your own words and sentence structure. You must retain the author’s meaning in your own words and sentence style. You may quote the outside source (the critical article) only twice in your summary. All other references to the critical article must be paraphrases. You may quote the primary text (“The Machine Stops”) as much as you need to as long as all direct quotations do not equal more than twenty percent of your paper. To support your argument, you must directly quote the primary text at least three times in your paper.A summary should be significantly shorter than the original text, so this assignment also is an exercise in editing. You are limited to four double-spaced pages (about 1000 words), so you need to determine and to preserve the critic’s purpose and major supporting details. The minimum page length is two double-spaced pages (about 500 words).Also, by this point in the semester, you already should have studied the MLA citation resources posted on our Canvas course page and watched the MLA citation coaching video in its entirety. Again, all of the papers assigned in this course are research papers, so you must write acceptable paraphrases and cite both those paraphrases and your direct quotations in proper MLA format both in the body of the paper and in a works cited page(s). A few recommendations:1. A thesis statement is, among other things, your contract with the reader. In it, you tell the reader what you want to be held responsible for demonstrating. Be clear and precise and make sure that the paper you write actually matches (and fulfills) the claims you make in the thesis. Avoid announcements in your thesis. Rather than blandly state, “In my paper, I am going to . . .”
3or “This paper will prove that . . .” state a specific and powerful thesis that draws your reader into your paper. 2. Should you ask rhetorical questions? No. Do not ask rhetorical questions because they put the burden on the reader. This assignment is too short for you to take up space by asking and answering rhetorical questions.3. Use powerful present-tense verbs in your paper because while the primary texts and the critical arguments about them were written in the past, as written documents, they live on. Vary the powerful active verbs you use in your paper. For instance: “Kuno argues,” “Vashti chides,” and “Forster presents.”4. You need to mention both the short story and its author and the title and author of the critical article in your introduction and conclusion. In the body paragraphs, you must fulfill the other requirements of the assignment including supplying sufficient examples from both the critical article and the short story to support your argument. ImportantInformationabout MLA Format:All outside sources—including the primary source—must be properly cited in MLA format. Remember, you must cite your sources’ words, whether you quote them directly or not. You also must cite your sources’ idea, whether you use it the same way or take the idea in a different direction. Remember: you must cite each sentence that contains your sources’ words or ideas. You also must include a works cited page as the last page of your paper. For information on proper MLA format, please refer to the MLA Handbook, all of the helpful links and tools on our Canvas course page including the MLA citation coaching video, the KVCC Writing Center, or the KVCC Library’s guide to MLA format. Also, by this point in the semester you should have watched the MLA citation coaching video, which is posted to our Canvas course page.
4Papers that do not meet MLA formatting requirements will lose points and may earn a failing grade.Technical Requirements:* Your paper must be uploaded to our Canvas course page by the deadline indicated under the upload link and posted under the “To Do” list on the right side of the Canvas course page. * This paper must include at least five fully developed paragraphs. You need introductory and concluding paragraphs. The introduction must include a proper thesis statement that argues your analysis of the critical article. Your (minimum) three body paragraphs should include a combination of summary and response paragraphs.* You must directly quote the primary work (“The Machine Stops”) at least three times in your response.* You may directly quote the critical article only twice in your response. You should directly quote outside sources only when the idea is worded so well and so powerfully that you could not express the idea better yourself. Otherwise, you should paraphrase the critical source.* You may write this paper in third person (he, she, they, him, her, them) point of view or first-person (I, me, my, we, our) point of view. You may not use second-person (you or your). * Your paper must follow the requirements for proper manuscript format as detailed in the course syllabus and exemplified by the Purdue OWL sample MLA research paper, which is posted to our Canvas course page within each module where a paper assignment sheet is posted.* You must properly cite all outside sources in MLA format in both the body of the paper and in a works cited page. * The paper must be double spaced and properly uploaded as a Word.docx document.* There should be margins of no more than one inch on each side.* Font size should be no larger than 12 point. I recommend Times New Roman font.
5Works ConsultedClouse, Barbara Fine. Progressions with Readings: Paragraph to Essay. 7th ed. Longman, 2007. Miazga, Ron and Bob Post. “Summary.” Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeWriting Center, 2007.
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