English Assignment: 1302/Bradley
Length: 3-3.5 pages.
Audience: people who are familiar with the stories
Purpose: analyze a literary source, conduct literary research, and draw conclusions
SLOs measured:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative research processes.
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 ofevidence.
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.)
Short Story Essay Assignment
Write an essay arguing whether or not you think the women in Kate Chopin's stories are "respectable." Use textual evidence to support your argument and analysis.
REMEMBER:
• Your thesis statement should answer the question.
• Begin body paragraphs with topic sentences that make the body paragraphs distinct and argumentative.Do not just summarize the story!
• Use textual evidence appropriately in your body paragraphs.
• Include at least 3 scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources to support YOUR argument.
• Concluding paragraph should be meaningful: Your concluding paragraph might discuss what point, exactly, the author may have been trying to make in presenting female characters this way.
• Use parentheticals to cite your textual evidence. Include a works cited page.
Research resources to avoid:
Google
author's biography
reviews and summaries
study guides (Cliff Notes, etc)
newspaper articles
Facts on File
Opposing viewpoints
Try to access literary resources for a literary analysis: Literary Resource Center, Literary Reference Center, Short Story Criticism, TCLC, etc.