Drama Paper
English 1102 

DIRECTIONS

 

  • Select one of the plays from the syllabus.

  • Having read and annotated it, focus on a specific theme in the play and explore it in 500-600 words (5 ¶s in a mature font).

  • To support your thesis, choose a concept directly discussed or mentioned in the story.

  • Make sure that your thesis adheres to one of the three options from the thesis handout (link). The first part of the thesis will be specific to the play (something explicitly mentioned in the play) and the second part will go beyond the play itself to show something more about life, humanity, etc., while broadening our understanding of the play itself. Therefore, this paper is to analyze the play while relating it to life. MANDATORY ESSAY ORGANIZATION (link).

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  • Italicize, bold or underline the thesis statement.

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  • The first part of each of the argument paragraphs will analyze the text, and the second part will relate that analysis to life nowadays (link).

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  • The introductory ¶ should have only two sentences, one of which will be the thesis statement.

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  • The paper cannot earn more than 60% without the required organization and thesis.

  • No title page is necessary, but title your essay in an original manner and put your name on the paper as well in the upper left corner.

  • This is to be your own, original work, without referring to any outside sources or commentaries, but this is not an "I" paper.

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  • Use present tense.

  • Do not use "you."

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  • Please do not organize your paper based on the original organization of the play.

  • Do not focus on the literary devices used by the author (e.g., diction, tone, irony, symbolism, metaphor) but rather on the actual content.

  • Include a brief heading with your name, assignment, date and course.

  • Include the word count at the top of the paper.

  • Submit your final draft through the D2L Brightspace assignments dropbox under Drama by the due date.

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  • Detailed feedback about the submitted paper will be provided in D2L.

  • The content of the paper will be graded based on its organization, thesis, paragraph structure, quality of arguments, analysis strength and lack of summary. Each type (not each occurrence) of major grammatical errors (e.g., run-on, pronoun-antecedent agreement, fragment, misplaced modifier, parallelism, verb form, subject-verb agreement, 3 x spelling errors) will equal a deduction of 10 points.

  • As always, if you have any questions, please email me at cperkowski@gordonstate.edu. 

    Texts from our textbook posted in D2L to choose from:
     Oedipus at Colonus
    The Outside
    Pillars of SOciety