This week you read “Young Goodman Brown”. I’ve provided an article by Paul Hurley that does a really good job of laying out his argument.
This is how a scholarly article is often formatted**when you are reading, you want to pat attention to the opening pages. This is where the author’s argument is going to be and how they set up that argument is important. They will lay the foundation by presenting the ongoing conversation about the text. The issue being presented and who is saying what and why.
Read the article and do an “active reading”. This is the act of underlining or highlighting important concepts, marking the thesis and topic sentences, circling any unfamiliar words and defining them in the margin, etc., that you think are interesting, or that make good points. It’s okay if you don’t understand everything in the entire article – literary criticism can be challenging to read! Focus on the points that you do understand.
Find the author’s point, or thesis, in the article. What are they saying about the topic? How are they contributing to the overall discussion? To get full credit for this assignment, upload a document that contains an MLA formatted works cited page citation. Below the works cited page citation, write a paragraph of about 150-200 words that explains Hurley’s argument and the main points of the essay. This constitutes an entry for annotated bibliography.
