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Students will describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate features of literary texts in several genres, applying appropriate literary and cultural terms.

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Introduction
This assignment requires that you critically analyze a literary journal article on your chosen literary work for the semester. You may be able to use some of this journal article’s information in the next essay as well.
The assignment will fulfill the following course outcomes:
Students will describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate features of literary texts in several genres, applying appropriate literary and cultural terms.
Students will critically analyze and interpret American literature from 1865 to the present within historical and cultural contexts.
Students will write critical essays about American literature that integrate primary and secondary sources using MLA documentation and standard academic written conventions.
The assignment will fulfill the following General Education Outcomes:
Critical Thinking: Students will demonstrate thinking that is clear, accurate, precise, relevant, logical, deep, broad, and fair while analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating
Writing: Students will demonstrate thinking that is clear, accurate, precise, relevant, logical, deep, broad, and fair while analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating,
Information Literacy: Students will recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information.
The Assignment
You should have already chosen the overall topic of your research (the literary work) and a preliminary focus and created an annotated bibliography containing information on 2 articles relating to the poem, essay, autobiography, or short story you have chosen.
Choose one of those 2 articles as the topic to be analyzed in this essay.
The article that you choose as the topic of the essay must be a literary journal article. A journal is a type of publication, like a magazine or newspaper, that periodically publishes related articles within a category of writings, such as articles on topics relating to literature, history, religion, languages, etc. In MLA formatting, the title of the journal (such as Journal of Early American Literature) should be formatted in italics, while an article within that journal should be enclosed in quote marks as in “What is Behind the Veil?: An Analysis of ‘The Birthmark’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
As a reminder, the journal article you have selected for Essay 1 should discuss one of the literary works listed below and not the author or other works of the author.
List of Potential Topics
Here are the authors and works we will read this semester:
Christopher Columbus: From “The Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage, February 15, 1493” and From “The Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage, July 7, 1503”
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, From the Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
William Bradford, From Plymouth Plantation (Chapters IX, X)
Anne Bradstreet, “The Prologue,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years and Seven Months,” “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”
Mary Rowlandson, from The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson
“Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”
Phillis Wheatley, Selected Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” or “The Tell-tale Heart”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil” or “The Birth-Mark”
Emily Dickinson selected poetry
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Other works by permission only
Steps for Writing the Analysis
Create a specific “preliminary or working” thesis statement that identifies the article’s purpose and the evidence provided to support that purpose and provides an assessment of how well the article fulfills that purpose. (This assessment will have to be well supported within your body paragraphs, so this part of your thesis will likely need to be written after you have completed the body paragraphs.) Depending on the article you select for your essay, this article’s purpose might be a response to some issue or idea identified from the literary work relating to philosophical or religious ideas, national, political, or historical circumstances, interactions or attitudes with various ethnic and cultural groups, and so on. Your thesis may change somewhat as you draft and rewrite the essay. That is fine. The most important aspect is that the body paragraphs must support your thesis, so you should keep the thesis in mind as you compose the essay.
Identify evidence from within the article and the literary work it describes for your thesis statement. This support should include a mixture of passages, quotations, summaries/paraphrases) from the writing itself primarily. Exact quotations should comprise no more than 20% of your paper as determined by SafeAssign, which is embedded as part of the assignment tool.
Remember that acceptable resources that you use in this essay are restricted to academic resources from our library’s databases (not an encyclopedia article or similar type reference, which provides mostly overviews, rather than in-depth analysis), the textbook, and course materials. Of course, the article itself should be a journal article that focuses on the literary work you have chosen.
Use the questions below to generate content for each section of the essay.
Essay Introduction
What is the author’s full name?
What are the author’s most important credentials to write on this topic?
What is the article’s purpose?
Briefly, how does the author support that purpose (what types of information, experts, statistics, etc.)?
How well does the article fulfill its purpose? (This is your thesis statement. End your introduction with this.)
Body Paragraphs
Body paragraph 1. What is one way the author supports his/her ideas? What specific information is used? Provide examples. How persuasive is that support based on the credibility and sufficiency of the evidence?
Body paragraph 2. What is another way the author supports his/her ideas? What specific information is used? Provide examples. How persuasive is that support based on the credibility and sufficiency of the evidence?
Body paragraph 3, etc. What is another way the author supports his/her ideas? What specific information is used? Provide examples. How persuasive is that support based on the credibility and sufficiency of the evidence?
Does the author include opposing views with the article? What are those views? Are they convincing? Why or why not?
Does the author refute any opposing ideas in some way? Explain. (Note: the author may not include opposing views or may include opposing views as part of a section that his/her own ideas/evidence refutes.)
Conclusion
Overall, how effective is the article in supporting its main idea(s)/purpose? Support that with specifics from the evidence in your body paragraphs that the article provides to support its ideas. Your statement here should be based directly on what you’ve covered in the body paragraphs. Any flaws relating to the evidence/support should already have been revealed in the body paragraphs. If the evidence is sufficient, that should have already been specifically supported in the body paragraphs, as well.
What might have made the article more effective/convincing based on the evaluation you’ve provided in the body paragraphs.
Why are the topic and the writer’s stance important? In other words, how does his or her contribution in this article affect or enrich our understanding of the literary work?
Resources (Use of our library resources is required for all essays in this course.)
Sample Analysis of a Literary Journal Article (opens in a new window)
Surry Library Site (opens in a new window) http://library.surry.edu/home
English and Literature Databases (opens in a new window, http://library.surry.edu/c.php?g=163763&p=1075750)
Literary Terms (opens in a new window, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_terms/index.html)
Conducting Research (opens in a new window, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/writing_in_literature_detailed_discussion/conducting_research.html)
Introduction to Literary Theory (opens in a new window, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/index.html)
Formatting Requirements
Use MLA formatting exactly as shown on our library site under Citing Help or the Purdue OWL website.
Put your name, instructor’s name, course, section number, and date of assignment as shown in the sample MLA essay.
Include page numbers in the header area of the document with your last name in front of the number.
Center the title of your essay at the top left of the document as shown in the sample MLA Essay. Use title caps in the title. The title should include the title of the selection, properly formatted, and a hint of the essay’s main topic.
Use one-inch margins.
Use a 12-point Times New Roman font.
Use double line spacing throughout the document, including the Works Cited Page, which should be on a separate page at the end of your paper.
If you have questions about how to format, help is just a YouTube video away. Many YouTube videos are available for Microsoft Word. Also, having correct settings here ensures that everyone is on a level playing field when calculating the page length requirements.
Grading
Writing Rubric
_____ of 4 points Paper is in MLA format as specified (-1/2 point per error).
_____ of 4 points Writing is clear and understandable. Writing is precise with a centralized thesis, topic sentences, and collaborating details and elaboration.
______ of 4 points Writing is organized around the central thesis. There are sufficient body paragraphs that support the thesis and do not deviate from it. There are transitions words and phrases that help the flow of the writing.
_____ of 4 points Writing is incisive. It is thoughtful with an intro and conclusion
and citations/Works Cited if applicable.
_____ of 4 points Writing is correct in regard to formatting and grammar (-1/2 point per error).
______ of 20 points x 5 _____ of 100 final
_____ of Final
To Submit
Using Microsoft Word (or another word processing program allowed by your instructor), save the document with a filename that includes the Firstinitiallastnameassignment title (JSmithArticleAnalysis). Then, submit as a Word attachment through this assignment link.

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