Krantz

English 2200

Essay Assignment

Dates:

July 26 Draft Workshop. Bring one or two copies of your paper for fellow students to mark. This is required and no excuse will be accepted for being absent or not having a draft. The paper grade will be lowered for both.

July 31 Final draft due with draft workshop sheet and the draft brought to the workshop. Staple each paper and then paper-clip the three pieces together with the final draft on top.

Choose one of the following, and construct an organized, focused, well-reasoned essay of 5-6 pages (at least 1250 words). The questions below are to get you started. Your answer(s) to one or more will supply a thesis for your paper, and you must find support for that thesis. The thesis must be stated as a claim (not a question) although it will answer a question about the piece or pieces you are discussing. Note that number 5 is a personal essay, but it requires understandings gained in reading the texts that we've discussed in class.

1-7. You may select any of the questions in your text on p. 1478. If you choose the question on LOTR, you will have to choose one of the films. If you compare its heroes to those of The Matrix, you'll have to focus on one of the Matrix films also.

If you want to focus on O'Connor, you may use one of the following from 1477:

#1, 3, 5, 7, 8, or12.

Paper Format: Papers must be wordprocessed on clean, white, letter-sized paper. You may submit a clean photocopy if you wish, but a draft must always accompany an essay. Please keep an extra copy either on a save device or in hardcopy of each paper that you submit. Use 1 inch margins, double space, indent paragraph beginnings, and do not leave an extra space between paragraphs. Don't forget to put a title (yours, not the author's) centered above the essay. Also, in your introduction identify the texts and the authors you are working on. Put my name, the class, and the date at the top of the first page. Put your name on the reverse side of the last page. Please staple the pages of the final copy together and attach these on top of the draft and the draft workshop sheet with a paper clip. Also, put your name on the back of the last page of the draft. For questions about how to use quotations and other mechanics, please see the examples in your book.