2 – Develop ideas and synthesize primary and secondary sources within focused academic arguments, including one or more research-based essays.
3 – Analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of texts for the ethical and logical uses of evidence.
4 – Write in a style that clearly communicates meaning, builds credibility, and inspires belief or action.
5 – Apply the conventions of style manuals for specific academic disciplines (e. g., APA, CMS, MLA, etc.
A motif is a recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work. Write an essay in which you identify and analyze ONE recurring motif in TWO of the works
FOUR pages, minimum 1,200 words and maximum 1,500 words, typed, and double-spaced.
• Use the MLA essay format described on the course syllabus.
• Provide 1-2 short (1-2) line quotes from the works in each body paragraph as evidence.
• Do not quote more than three lines of the original text at a time. Four lines of text, or more, require block quotes. Please do not use block quotes on Essay 2.
• When you “quote” the author’s words directly, use “quote marks,” provide his, or her, LAST name, and give a page number where your quote can be found.
For example:
The author writes, “That’s how I felt. I couldn’t understand why we stayed” (Last name 131).
Author’s last name notes, “That’s how I felt. I couldn’t understand why we stayed” (131).
- This essay requires scholarly research cited in MLA Style: four sources total (the two short stories and TWO scholarly sources)
- Students will create a separate “Works Cited” page in which they cite their sources in MLA style. FOUR sources will be listed on the Works Cited page: the two short stories and TWO additional, scholarly sources.
- Students will also cite sources correctly in the body of the essay (in-text citations).