22 Nov 2005
Ex 3-1: Paper 3 Presubmission Report
This short exercise is designed to get you started on Paper 3.
As with the previous papers, your goal for Paper 3 is to defend a non-obvious claim about one or several literary works on our syllabus, demonstrating your ability to incorporate direct quotations from the primary (literary) and secondary (scholarly or historical) sources. Your thesis should be worth arguing -- that is, you should present and account for credible evidence that opposes the claim you want to make.
Supply the following information.
1) Your thesis statement (including the precise opinion and blueprint -- that is, a short list of your supporting points, in the order in which you plan to discuss them in the full paper).
2) Several direct quotations from the literary source(s) you plan to study.
2A) Include quotations that support your thesis...
2B) ...as well as quotations that refute your thesis.
3) Direct quotations from outside sources
3A) Include quotations that support your thesis..
3B) ...as well as quotations that refute your thesis.
4) Your preliminary conclusion.
5) An example of the efficient integration of a brief quotation from an outside source, into one of your own sentences that makes the point that you want to make. Use an MLA parenthetical citation to cite your source properly.
6) A full Works Cited page
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3768
short list of your supporting points, in the order in which you plan to discuss them in the full paper. Do you mean, for example, if my paper was about Huck Finn..my list would be:
-Hucks interaction with Pap
-Hucks interaction with the Duke and the Dauphin
-Hucks interaction with Tom
-Hucks interaction with Jim
-Hucks interaction with the general public.
Just curious, since im starting this tonight.
That's a good outline, but "Huck's interaction with Pap" isn't a complete point -- it's a subtopic.
A *point* would be "Huck learns survival skills from Pap, including the ability to live off the land, and to live off of lies. A civilized boy, like Tom, would not have the real-world skills that were necessary for Huck to complete his journey."
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at November 18, 2005 06:43 PMgotchya
Posted by: Lou Gagliardi at November 18, 2005 06:52 PMCan we e-mail this to you or does it need to be dropped off at your office?
While I do want the revision of Paper 2 (due Monday) in printed form, I'll accept the presubmission as an e-mail.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at November 19, 2005 10:37 PM
