Basic Requirements: This essay must be between five and eight FULL pages, not including the Works Cited page.This essay must quote from its primary sources, and it must quote from at least three secon

Basic Requirements:

• This essay must be between five and eight FULL pages, not including the Works Cited page.
• This essay must quote from its primary sources, and it must quote from at least three secondary sources, using proper MLA citation.
• This essay must focus on works of literature that appear in our textbook; the works do not have to be ones that were assigned. None of the works can be ones you used in the Midterm Essay.
• The paper should follow the formatting guidelines listed below.
• The essay must be turned in here (see link below) by midnight Friday of Unit Eight

A note about sources:

Unlike the Midterm Essay, this one will require you to use secondary sources. Please carefully read the “Secondary Sources” page on this unit’s home page to get a full sense of what this means.

For this essay, you will be expected to quote sufficiently from the primary sources, i.e. the works of literature you’ve chosen to discuss (in our example, the primary sources would be “Story of an Hour” and “Trifles). You will also be expected to follow the MLA guidelines on acceptable ways of quoting and citing sources. If you don’t know what this means, you MUST go to whatever resources are available to you, include the links on the “Further Resources” page of our course, to learn about citation. Failure to understand the mechanisms of citation can lead to plagiarism, which can lead to a zero for the course.

Formatting Guidelines

• Double-space the text of your paper, use 12 point Times New Roman or 11 point Calibri
• Leave only one space after periods or other punctuation marks.
• Use standard 1-inch margins.
• Indent the first line of paragraphs one tab space. Put page numbers at the top right of each page except for the first one.
• Use italics throughout your essay for the titles of longer works like plays, novels, and epic poems. The titles of short works like lyric poems and short stories should be surrounded by quotation marks.
• In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, provide a proper heading by listing your name, then your instructor’s name, then the course number, then the date (in other words, the heading should contain four separate lines).
• Center the title over the first paragraph of your essay. Do not underline or italicize or boldface your title.

Final note:

As you write your paper, please refer frequently to the sections in your book that deal with critical essay writing.  You also will want to make use of the writing resources mentioned elsewhere in the course shell, and you will want to familiarize yourself with the grading rubric.

These assignments will be turned in via the Turnitin submission tool at the end of the module. You will receive a similarity score report, indicating how much of your paper reflects work taken from other sources. Look at the report - if the only highlighted sections are quotations you have inserted correctly (with quotation marks and citations), then you don't need to worry. If there are other parts of your paper that have been highlighted, then you may want to double check that you have given credit to any sources you used. You may make revisions and resubmit your essay as long as it is before the deadline. 

Turn in your Writing Assignment by Sunday 11:59PM CST.