Assignment Question
Grammar, punctuation, and spelling all count in this +1000-word essay. Your essay needs to cite from the primary text by using MLA documentation and to incorporate a quote from at least one, preferably two of the assigned secondary sources offered under Week Fourteen. (Secondary sources found elsewhere are unacceptable.) The essay should be divided into paragraphs made up of an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Be sure to give your essay an original title—not Martel Essay and not Term Paper—centered above the introduction, and be sure to indent every new ¶ with a “tab.” ¶1) The introduction, roughly 150-250 words, should explain briefly what the book is about, identify its author, and italicizes the title of the book. The introductory paragraph ends by explicitly stating the essay’s thesis.
Choose one thesis statement from the following THREE: This essay explores the relationship between fiction and deception in Martel’s novel. This essay explores the relationship between reason and faith in Martel’s novel. This essay explores the relationship between brutality and civilization in Martel’s novel. Please position this thesis statement, just as it is worded above, at the end of the introduction. Do not alter the thesis statement. ¶2 through 6, 7, or 8) Paragraphs should fall between 150-250 words in length. Not counting the introduction and the conclusion, the essay should contain somewhere between 5 and 7 body paragraphs, each of which is built around a different example that relates to the thesis. Remember to summarize briefly the situation surrounding each example, as if the reader of your essay was not so familiar with the two books. Each body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence (and never a quotation) that indicates the main idea of the paragraph. Each body paragraph supports a single main idea by using material and examples from the text in the form of quotation and/or paraphrase. The speaker should always be indicated before a quotation, and references need to be given by using parenthetical page citation. IMPORTANT: Make sure to cite the page numbers when referring to material from the assigned text of the novels. ¶Last) The conclusion does not introduce new examples. Instead, it recapitulates what has already been said and puts the essay’s thesis in a broader context. It is the best place for making personal comments, if you like. After the conclusion of the essay, bibliographic information about the text should be given as the Work Cited. The two primary sources should appear in alphabetical order, by author, along with the name of the author(s) of the secondary source(s) used. I repeat: use only those sources located under Week Fifteen. Do not quote from Wikipedia, SparksNotes, or Gradesaver. These are not college-level secondary sources. Remember to use Times New Roman font (12pt size) and to double-space between lines. Check that the essay’s length is roughly 1000 words.
The best essays are not those that express the opinions of the professor but those that use reason and insight to persuasively argue an individual viewpoint by drawing on material in the book. In the “Content” of the course can be found MLA-Brush Up and some sample student essays from another semester to give you an idea of what I am looking for.
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