Major Paper English 2111
DIRECTIONS
Italicize, bold or underline the thesis statement. The first part of each of the argument paragraphs will analyze the text, and the second part will relate that analysis to precise examples from life nowadays (link). The introductory ¶ should have only two sentences, one of which will be the thesis statement. The concluding paragraph will have one or two sentences. This is to be your own, original work, without referring to any outside sources or resources, but this is not an "I" paper. Consulting any outside sources or resources might result in forfeiting credit for this assignment. Use present tense. Do not use "you." 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, course and word count in the upper left corner. To be eligible for credit, the completed assignment MUST meet all of the above conditions. If any requirement from the prompt is not met, the assignment will be ineligible for credit. Here are some examples of concepts for this paper:
No title page is necessary, but title your essay in an original manner (not the title of the text). 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 utilize the D2L forum.
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