specific aspect of the novel

specific aspect of the novel

Purpose:

Use your third essay to develop an interpretive claim about the novel. Use critical analysis to enlighten readers about some aspect of the novel’s function, meaning or significance.

 

This means you need to examine some specific aspect of the novel and demonstrate through reference to text how readers can better understand the impacts, effects, or meanings of the novel. To focus this analysis, you may examine:

 

-formal elements such as we have used in prior essays: symbols, imagery, plot structure, character development, and so on.

-themes as viewed through critical lenses: Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, historical/biographical, or reader response. (See “Critical Theory”)

 

Above all, your essay should contribute to a deeper understanding, should demonstrate a complex view by citing text and explaining its significance. Once you have arrived at thesis, your task is to communicate your understanding to an interested, general college audience unaware of your class or assignments. This audience should be assumed to be somewhat familiar with the novel, so summary of plot, if present at all, would be quite minimal.

 

State thesis at the outset, in your introduction, then develop the body of your essay by showing your readers the text and reasoning that leads you to your conclusion, thereby showing them the validity of your ideas. The evidence for your claim must be derived from quotations from the novel, along with explanatory commentary to demonstrate the analysis you derive from that text.

 

Sources:

Use at least two outside sources to support or connect with your discussion. This source may be specifically about the text, about the theme(s) you examine, or about the author generally. Sources must be drawn from the field of literature and written by experts. Few sources address this novel specifically, so you’ll need a broader search to examine things like: dystopian fiction, female protagonists, politics in literature, science fiction generally, and Heinlein’s themes. Your topic and approach will help lead you to how best to broaden search terms and locate sources that can be linked to your discussion of the novel.

 

 

HOW TO FIND SOURCES:

 

Sources must be scholarly: web-pages, study guides, “spark notes,” etc. are not acceptable. If not peer reviewed journals, then sources should be carefully evaluated to determine the expertise and credentials of the author. MLA documentation, including a Works Cited page, must be used to document sources.

 

Please don’t google. Academic research is best conducted through academic paths. The LCCC library databases are the best place to locate valid, credible sources, and I strongly recommend that you limit your research to EBSCO, ProQuest, and the specifically Literature databases. Even sources not available by full text can be requested via inter-library loan and often received very swiftly.

 

 

Format and Submission Guidelines: (essays failing to meet the requirements will be returned ungraded)

– Every essay should have a title. Only one line should separate the title from the beginning of the text.

– Every essay should have a heading at the top of the first page only, double-spaced, including the student’s name, the class and section, the essay’s number or name (i.e. “Essay 1”) and the date of submission.

– Every essay should be double-spaced.

– Every essay should use a standard font size of twelve, using Times New Roman.

– Every essay should prevent Word from automatically adding spaces after paragraphs. See Submission Instructions for details.

– Every essay should use standard one inch margins on all four sides.

– Every essay should include page numbers at the top right of every page after the first. Use the page numbering feature in Word for easy page numbering. Do not type these into regular text.

– Every essay file must include the essay outline.

– Essays will be submitted by email, in a single Word file containing a draft version placed after the revised version, which should appear on page one of the file when opened.

-Works Cited pages must begin their own page, immediately following the last page of the essay, following a hard page break.

– Filenames for the submitted essay file must consist of student’s last name and essay number (Ex: “Smith_essay3.doc”)

– Essays must be received in the Angel online dropbox by or on the announced due date. Late essays will not be accepted for grading, will receive zeros, and must nonetheless be submitted in order to continue the class.

– Essay submission must include preliminary and final drafts, prewriting, and peer review documents. The revised draft to be graded must appear on page one.
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