Explain how the evidence relates to the claims.
ENGL 1102 Essay One: First Analysis Essay (Diagnostic)
Purpose
Like the messy and variable human experience that literature represents, most of what we’ll read this semester is open to interpretation. In writing this essays, you’ll practice and improve your ability to closely examine a work of literature, develop a reasonable interpretation of its main point, and make an argument supporting your interpretation, using evidence from the literature. This practice, which we’ll be working on all semester, will prepare you for a variety of college level writing assignments, in which you’ll be researching complicated or conflicting information and need to form and support your own conclusions about what the information means, as well as explain your points to an audience of college-level readers.
In addition, this essay serves the purpose of diagnosing what areas of composition learned in ENGL 1101, such as stating a clearly thesis, developing that thesis with organized paragraphs, and writing clear and grammatical sentences, still need your attention. You’ll learn what kind of grades your written work earns, with plenty of time and graded material left in the semester to make necessary changes and adjustments. If this essay doesn’t earn the kind of grade you want in this course and you’ve carefully reviewed my written feedback but don’t understand how to improve, I encourage you to discuss this with me in office hours.
Task
1. After reading the entire essay assignment and all three of this week’s literary works, choose one of “The Breakup Museum,” “Jericho,” or “Loitering is Delightful” for your essay.
2. Consider the main idea that the piece communicates to its audience. What do to effectively reach their audience? Do they fail to communicate their point in any way?
3. Compose an essay that states and develops your thesis about the main idea that the literature communicates to its audience, and how it communicates that point effectively or not. As you write and revise your essay, make sure to include the following elements:
introduction: this paragraph should introduce the reader to your source, as well as your thesis about the main point of that work of literature
analytical paragraphs: your essay’s body should present claims that support your thesis, with each claim analyzed and developed in its own paragraphs. Effective analytical paragraphs a) make relevant claims b)present detailed evidence of those claims and c) explain how the evidence relates to the claims. Each paragraph should be clearly connected to your thesis.
textual evidence: your ideas should be supported by quoted material from your source, and MLA style should be used in support of that material.
Criteria
Your essays will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
Does the essay present a clear, focused, and compelling thesis that states your analysis of the literature’s main point?
Does the essay consider how and why the literature is effective (or not) in communicating its point to its audience?
Does the essay support and develop that thesis using cited evidence from the texts, including quotes, and analysis of that evidence?
Does the essay organize its claims in focused paragraphs, and present those paragraphs in a connected and logical order?
Does the essay clearly communicate its ideas using grammatical sentences?
Does the essay use MLA style to format and cite the literature?
Format
This essay should:
Be approximately 600-700 words long
Use MLA format for the heading and in-text citations. No works cited is necessary. 1.5 spacing is allowed. Because so many of our sources are electronic, and these essays may only cite one author, in-text citations may not be necessary. BUT LANGUAGE WRITTEN BY PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN QUOTES. Use present tense to describe and interpret the literature. Lovers may come and go, but literature is forever.
While there is no required number of quotes, excellent (“A”-level papers) usually have at least one quoted example in each body paragraph, as well as analysis that shows how that quote develops the writer’s ideas and thesis. Remember that for each quote in a body paragraph, there should be twice as much discussion and analysis, so for a paper of this length, shorter quotes and more focused analysis will be most effective.
No sources should be consulted in the writing this essay. Informal googling to “get ideas” without citation of those websites is plagiarism, and will be treated as such. Your essay should be 100% original work.
*MUST HAVE ONE CITATION PER PARAGRAPH TO RECEIVE 100%*
LINKS:
“The Breakup Museum” by Leslie Jamison (nonfiction) https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/02/…
“Loitering is Delightful” by Ross Gay (nonfiction) *shortest reading*
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/11/loi…
“Jericho” by Silas House (fiction)
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