For this writing assignment, you will develop an argument about Andrea Levys Every Light in the House Burnin, and you will put your argument in conversation with ideas from a scholarly secondary source.
Your job is to develop an argument about how the novels message can be understood in relation to distinct ideas from the secondary source. Try to focus your thesis on one of these topics:
How the novel shares new perspectives about the black British experience
How the novel re-writes the concept of British identity for people living in the diaspora
How Levys story helps make literary culture more inclusive
Next, decide on the scholarly secondary source youll use: this can be Michael Perfects article Existing in More than One Plane of Time: Memory and Narrative Form in Every Light in the House Burnin (our reading for February 17), or another source you find through your own research.
Start your assignment with a clear argumentative statement explaining your view of the novels message about your topic. From there, develop your argument by introducing and analyzing textual evidence from the novel (your primary source) and your secondary source. Your assignment is required to have:
at least 3 paragraphs
at least 5 quotations: 3 from your primary source and 2 from your secondary source
Think of your task as putting your argument about the primary source in conversation with ideas from your secondary source. In other words, your secondary source will provide a perspective to help enrich your reading of the novel.
Guidelines:
Your reading response is required to be 850 words.
You are not required or encouraged to write an introduction paragraph. Start your assignment with your argumentative perspective, and directly follow this in the same paragraph with your analysis and discussion of textual details.
To build your perspective, you are free to analyze more quotations than are required.
Try to edit for conciseness. Try to remove any unnecessary words, repetition and vagueness from your writing.
Grammar, spelling, formatting, MLA citation style and clarity all make up a significant portion of your mark.
For information about formatting your assignment in MLA style, see MLA Assignment Format in the Writing Resources section of our Brightspace page
You must have in-text citations for direct quotations, paraphrasing, summarizing, and any ideas you borrow from another source. Direct quotations must have quotation marks around them. You also need to have a Works Cited.
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