Least One Parenthetically Cited Ucla Use Of Irony

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Least One Parenthetically Cited Ucla Use Of Irony

please see all the instructions before you start to work this essay.

Assignment Overview

In a full 5 pages and/or 1500 words (minimum; not including the works cited list) essay, discuss how a single formal New Critical element (NOT a survey of several of them) you have discovered at work in the text eventually helps to resolve the core meaning you identify from the end of the story.

To do this work, you will need to have researched and read a short story that you like. It should have an ending you understand and that you believe somehow distills the essence of the story.

Your story may be in another language. It may be a short story you’ve written yourself. It may be a story you’ve already written about for another class (though please keep in mind that your essay for this class must be all original work – no writing material may be brought over from previous things you’ve written outside of this class as that would thwart the goals of this assignment as well as constitute an act of academic plagiarism).

Your story may be an iconic work written by an established master of the short story genre or something much more obscure. It can be a short work of “flash fiction” or a longer story of 10 or 20 pages. It can be whatever kind of story you’re most interested in reading and writing about.

The Assignment

Submit a 3 full page (minimum) DRAFT version of your New Criticism Essay as a separate document attachment here. Make sure you’ve read the New Criticism essay assignment description from earlier in the unit to make sure you’re following all of the assignment guidelines before you submit your rough draft work here.

Although I’m looking for strong writing work, remember that this version is only a draft: it will likely change and improve as you continue working and revising the essay between now and the final deadline – that’s fine, and expected as part of the continual revision process any writer goes through as s/he works to refine the work.

My only expectation here is that you are working on something that addresses the needs of the assignment in a credible way at this point – that’s it. Paragraphs may be unformed, ideas may not be fully developed or supported yet, that’s all just fine. As long as you’re working toward the assignment goals now, I’m happy.

Length and Document Requirements

Your draft must be a FULL 3 pages, top to bottom (excluding name/date/assignment information atop the first page) OR 1000 words (12 pt double spaced text with 1″ margins on all four sides) in order to receive any credit as I do not give partial credit for partial work.

This draft assignment is designed to ensure that you complete your essay well ahead of the final due date so as to leave enough time for you to effectively revise and proofread your own work, as I need to see strong, sophisticated, error-free writing from all of you in your final versions.

No works cited list is required for this draft version of the essay.

File Formatting

Incorrectly named files won’t receive credit, so please name them thusly:

(YOUR last name only) + (a shortened version of the assignment name) + (the word DRAFT in all caps), like this: SmithCritThinkDRAFT.docx.

Remember not to type in “doc” or “docx” manually, as your word processing application will automatically append that file type designator to your title when you save the file. Only .doc or .docx files will be accepted – please do not attach any other file types (PDF, RTF, WPS, TXT, Pages, GoogleDocs, etc.), as I will not be able to read or assign credit to them.

Submission Guidelines

  • Write your essay in the present tense, even when speaking of a text that has been written in the past: write “the author says,” NOT “the author said”
  • Write your essay in the 3rd person (use: he, she, it, they, the authors, the reader, etc.). DO NOT use me, I, you, or your anywhere in your essay – submissions that do not follow this rule will be returned ungraded and marked down a full letter grade
  • Use lots of textual evidence to support your discussion – body paragraphs that do not offer direct or paraphrased textual support will not be credited toward your required essay page total
  • Cite your textual references with a page number in parentheses after the quotation. Use the Source Integration sheet from the Resource Center module to help you do that correctly. You MUST have at least ONE parenthetically cited textual reference, either a direct quote or a paraphrase, in every paragraph excluding the introduction and conclusion.
  • Fully introduce and describe the work you’re analyzing before you begin your analysis
  • Be specific in your argumentation: Develop a sound main argument in your first paragraph that revolves around a single point you wish to make about the writing
  • Develop your body paragraphs around argument, NOT summary. Lay out a subjective position about how and how well the writing works at the top of your paragraph, then introduce and insert direct, page cited textual evidence to support and illustrate your position, then explain your position by developing your critique further in the last third of your paragraph before transitioning us to the next phase of your discussion in succeeding paragraphs. Follow that rhetorical model in all of your body paragraph work. Analyze, don’t summarize.

The Bottom Line

These draft submissions will NOT receive automatic feedback comments from me – this may be a change from previous writing classes you’ve taken that you’ll have to adjust to here. I am always happy to offer my feedback on your draft work in whatever stages it’s in, but in order for that to happen you need to remember that feedback takes time for me to produce.

If you’d like comments on your draft work, you need get a separate copy to me via an Inbox message by Tuesday of the week the essay is due to give me time enough to read and respond and then get it back to you before the final essay deadline so that you can integrate my feedback into your work.

Please do not expect comments returned on draft submissions uploaded here, at or near the assignment deadline, and without a separate Inbox message to me earlier in the week with your draft file attached and requesting my feedback.

This draft submission is worth 10 points. You may resubmit your draft work as many times as you like up until the deadline – newer versions automatically overwrite older ones. Late and/or incomplete submissions will not receive credit.

Draft versions are not returned to you with comments (unless you get it to me early enough in the week and notify me separately of the early submission via Inbox message – see explanation above) but will be recorded for credit as long as they meet the minimum requirements for the assignment.