Exercise 2: The Analysis of
the Short Story
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Due Date: Week 5
Instructions
Compose an essay on one of the following three
topics.
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Development
1) Write a paper that compares the use of
irony in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and William Faulkner's
"A Rose for Emily."
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2) From the readings in Week 3, write a paper
that discusses how at least two authors depict the functions of the mind and/or
human imagination.
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3) Analyze the use of regional folklore in the
writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Joel Chandler Harris. |
The essay should be three to four pages long,
making use of short quotations from the literature in support of your
observations. Key-in the essay into the computer and save it to your
floppy disks. Each line should be double- spaced with only a single double space
between each paragraph. Block only those quotations longer than four lines of
your text.
Criteria for Grading
Your paper will be graded according to
the following standards:
1) Development - Does the essay satisfactorily
develop the thesis and meet the minimum page requirement?
2) Organization - Does the essay reflect
the thesis-support format?
3) Use of Source - Does the essay make
use of important supporting passages in the short story? Are all references
to the store correctly documented?
4) Style - Does the essay reflect diction
and syntax appropriate to a literary analysis?
5) Correctness - Does the essay reflect
mastery of basic writing conventions (spelling, punctuation, grammar, usage)?
Sample Essay
You will find in this site a sample essay
to give you a better idea about how to organize and develop your paper.
Click
here to go to the sample essay.
Submission Assignments
In addition to regular mail delivery,
distance-learning students may e-mail
papers as Word or WordPerfect attached files to Dr. Sink at
mds6420@dcccd.edu.
Submission Assignments through Regular
Mail
Mail papers to:
Dr. Mike Sink
Department of English
Mountain View College
4849 West Illinois Avenue
Dallas, TX 75211
Please include a stamped, self-addressed
envelope for returning your graded work.
Submitting Essays as E-Mail Attachments
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of your work that you follow exactly these guidelines:
1) Heading on Assignments
Place a heading on the first page of your
essay in the upper left-hand corner. The heading must include the
following information:
First Name-Middle Initial-Last Name
DCCCD Student ID Number
Course-Course Number-Section Number
Month-Date-Year
Name of Assignment
Example:
John R. Pointer
ID 5555555
English 2326: 9543
February 20, 2001
Exercise 3
2) File Name
Save your file exactly according to this
model:
JPointer-Ex3
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In the subject line, include your name
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This page was last modified
on January 16, 2006,
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