ASSIGNMENT:
You must choose one of the following prompts. 1. Show how a problem or situation currently exists and explain how ONE essay/story/poem helps us to better
understand the problem or situation.
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Show how ONE essay/story/poem proposes a possible solution to a modern-day problem. Show how ONE essay/story/poem can help us to better understand concepts/ideas that you’ve learned in
another class at HGTC (Note: you need to remember that the focus of your paper is the story/poem/play you’re analyzing. Don’t get so
caught up in the issues that you ignore the text.)
REQUIREMENTS:
This paper must contain outside sources. You will need to show that you have a firm understanding of the problem or situation being discussed. Current magazines, journals and books should help you with this. The minimum number of required sources is 4, not including the story/poem/essay being analyzed, though you are free to use more. For this assignment, you are restricted from using web pages, except for no more than 2 reputable news sites (e.g. NPR.org, CBS.com) and government sites. (Note: journals/magazines/newspapers accessed via Tech’s online database do not count as web pages. These are printed materials that have been scanned into the database for your convenience. Google Books also does not count as a website.)
You must use a well-known documentation style (e.g. Chicago, MLA, APA), and all sources must be cited according to the rules of that style. If you have any questions about this, then please come see me.
Each paper must be at least 4 pages long. The page length does not include title, headers, footers and Works Cited page. This means that your text will need to run onto the 5th page. Margins must be set to 1”, and the font should be a double spaced 12pt., Times New Roman. If the paper doesn’t meet these basic requirements, then you will lose MANY points—OR I might not read your paper at all, and consequently, you’ll receive a zero. Any paper that is short of the page requirement (even by a line) will automatically forfeit all points.
You must use ONE of the essays, poems or stories that we read and discussed this semester (except Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart,” which has been analyzed to death, and the movie, Bagger Vance). Feel free to expound on anything that we discussed in class. While you are organizing your paper, try to remember some of the class discussions we’ve had.
You need to offer abundant proof from the story/essay/poem—proof that supports your thesis. Don’t turn in a paper that doesn’t have abundant quotes (with substantial intros and explanations) from the text that support your points.
