Complete the Academic Writing Tools Module before completing this assignment. Part of your grade is based on the selection, integration, and citation of paraphrased quotations.
Read all of the information below before posting your response. This is a post-first forum, and you must post your response before gaining access to your classmates’ posts. Submitting a blank post may result in a reduction of your grade.
In your initial post, respond fully to one of the following discussion prompts:
What are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s views of nature? Do you believe these ideas are still represented today in popular film, television, or literature? How might they still apply today?
Interpret a character, scene, line, or image from Poe’s poem or short story. Don’t just summarize the work, but argue a thesis about the work.
Argue a thesis of your own comparing/contrasting Poe with Emerson on a shared point.
Your initial post is worth up to 75 points.
Criteria:
250 words mexcluding quotations and citations)
Include two properly integrated and cited paraphrased quotations (one from each work) to support your claims. See the Literary Analysis Tools Module for information about integrating and citing quotes.
Follow APA style with signal phrases preceding and inline citations following all quotations and a references entry at the end of the post.
what we can write about:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emerson/
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45877/each-and-all
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45868/brahma-56d225936127b
https://www.nps.gov/people/edgarallanpoe.htm
https://www.poetry.com/poem/8472/the-raven
https://www.poetry.com/poem/8431/annabel-lee
https://poestories.com/read/tellt
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