Washington Irving, ″The Legend of Sleepy Hollow″
Be sure to review the MLA notes to avoid deductions due to documentation and formatting errors. All essays will be checked for plagiarism. Proofread carefully to correct grammatical errors and avoid point deductions due to these errors. You must focus your paper and research on one of the following works: Washington Irving, ″The Legend of Sleepy Hollow″ (short story) Edgar Allan Poe, ″The Fall of the House of Usher″ (short story) Herman Melville, ″Bartleby, the Scrivener″ (short story) Use MLA formatting and documentation. Length: 3-5 pages, including works cited page. Source requirement: Primary source plus 3-4 peer-reviewed literary criticism secondary sources from scholarly journals found in the JSCC online library. May also use a reference source such as a biography. 1. Place the primary text within its specific historical context and explore the cultural and philosophical concepts or themes characterized by its era. What period or movement is this work and/or author associated with? You should set this up in the introduction. End your intro with a thesis that presents an argument about the work in its historical context or literary period. In what ways is it exemplary of that period, genre, or movement? 2. Analyze the work. Consider such elements as setting, plot, characterization, theme, point of view, symbol, tone, style, language, though not all of these are equally important, and you should concentrate on only those aspects that are relevant and revealing. How does the work use these to achieve its effects and theme? Go beyond simple plot summary or overview of the story here, and include analysis and explanation supported by outside sources. [unique_solution][unique_solution]Here you should demonstrate your skill in correct use of MLA documentation and formatting as well as your ability to select and integrate valid secondary sources. Quotations should be carefully selected and integrated into your own sentences for maximum effectiveness. Organize your body paragraphs around your main points for this analysis. 3. Finally, discuss your story and its effect on contemporary culture. What impact has the work and/or author had on literature, culture, or society? What other works or writers has this author or work influenced? What traces of this work do we see in modern culture? This works well as part of your conclusion, after you have summarized your main points. See attached rubric and MLA notes. You must attach your essay as a Word doc (.doc) or PDF document here. Submitting a blank document or different file format will cause your essay to be considered late. You may submit a draft to Smarthinking for review and/or see a tutor on campus prior to the due date. 1.Possess cognitive skills to read, interpret, and evaluate prose, poetry, and drama. 2.Be able to discuss cultural, historical, and philosophical forces in the primary work, using the literary terms correctly 3.Ability to place primary work in thematic and aesthetic context of historical/literary period and compare/contrast it to contemporary society 4.Ability to locate relevant and effective secondary sources 5.Ability to effectively integrate material from both primary and secondary sources and to correctly document, using MLA style 1.Excellent Thorough ability to interpret and discuss facts and details from the work. Ability to analyze events/ideas written about. 2.Identity found within all three aspects of historical, cultural, and philosophical purpose. 3.Excellent contextualization of both primary and secondary sources in illustrating historical significance and comparison/contrast to contemporary society. 4.Demonstration of ability to locate excellent sources: appropriate credible, authoritative, relevant to the topic, effective in presenting argument 5.Source material is -effective in providing good evidence to support key points within the overall argument. -smoothly integrated into the paper with an excellent balance of primary and secondary source material and discussion -correctly documented within the paper through parenthetical citations and at the end through the works cited page. MLA and Other Writing Notes Formatting: Type in 12-point Times New Roman (regular type) font. Note that Times New Roman is not the default font in Word 2007, so you will need to change the font style and size. Double-space the entire paper, including the heading, any block quotations, and the works cited page. Your page numbers should be at the top right margin (in a header) with your last name in front of each page number. All pages, including the Works Cited will be numbered. Use a heading at the top of the first page instead of a title page unless your instructor requires a title page. The heading of your paper will begin at the left margin on the first page. Do not place the heading in a header. An example of an MLA heading for a formal writing assignment is as follows: John Wayne Professor Miller English 299, Section 4 14 September 2000 The date will be the date you turn in the paper (the due date). Use the above format for the date. The title of your paper will be centered on the line directly under the heading (still double spacing). It should be typed in regular font (NOT placed in quotation marks, all-caps, bolded, underlined, larger…). You should give your paper a creative, catchy title that gives your reader a clue of its content. Each paragraph will be indented about a 1/2 inch or 5 spaces (you may hit tab once). Quotations should be blocked if you are quoting 4 or more lines from the original text. Each line of the blocked quotation is indented 10 spaces (tab twice, 1 inch). Documentation: Working with Quotations & Support When analyzing the text itself, you will quote short phrases, possibly even longer passages to show examples of the things you are explaining and/or to support your main points when completing literary analysis. Anytime you use actual words from the work, you must use quotation marks. If you are quoting three or fewer words, and it is clear that the words are from the text, you do not have to include an in-text citation, but you still place the words in quotation marks. In-text Citations: Cite secondary sources when quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Include in-text citations for all quotations from your primary source (the work you are analyzing). Introduce all quotations. Quotations cannot stand alone as sentences. Begin sentences with your own words, working quotations into your sentences smoothly. Examples: 1. Frost shows how “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1) symbolize choices made in life. 2. Goodman Brown fights with “Faith at his side” (213) against evil. 3. According to O’Connor, “a good man is hard to find” (103). 4. Stuckey writes, “it was all over when he swung the bat” (52). 5. People once believed that the earth “could not be spherical” (Brown 13). (Note where commas have been used and where they have been left out with these quotations—these are correct.) Cite page numbers for sources with numbered pages. Cite paragraph numbers for sources with numbered paragraphs instead of numbered pages. Cite the paragraph number using the abbreviation par. for electronic sources that include paragraph numbers rather than page numbers: (par. 15). Cite line numbers instead of page numbers for poetry: (4-5). Cite act, scene, and line for drama: (3.1.23-25). If a play does not use traditional act, scene, and line numbering, you may cite the page number instead. When a web source has no page or paragraph numbers, try to include the titles and/or author in your sentence rather than using parenthetical documentation. Cite the author, using his or her last name, in the signal phrase or in parentheses (but not both). Cite the page number in parentheses. Example: According to Smith, “xxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx” (23). Vintage collectables “xxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxx xxxx” (Smith 24). The period will come before the parenthetical citation in a block quotation: xxx. (52) Do not use quotation marks with a block quotation. The period follows parenthetical citation with a regular quotation: Xxx” (52). The end quotation marks are placed before the parenthetical citation: xxx” (52). It is recommended that you include source information in your signal phrase when using electronic (web) resources that do not include page or paragraph numbers instead of using parenthetical citations. In this case, the period will be within the quotation marks at the end of a sentence: xxx.” The first time you mention an author in the body of your paper use his or her first and last name. After that, use only the last name. Use only the last name in parenthetical citation. If you use the same author twice in a row in a paragraph you do not have to cite the author’s name the second time; it will be understood. Once you have cited an author or editor in a paragraph, if the next citation is from the same author or editor, you do not need to use his or her name again. Start over with each new paragraph and with each new author. You do not need to include the author’s name, only the page number, if it is clear who the author is. If you use the author’s name in the signal phrase you do not have to place it in parentheses too. Use an ellipsis…if the middle part is left out of a quotation. An ellipsis is not necessary at the beginning or end of a quotation. Include the ellipsis in brackets […] to show that it is not part of the original quotation. If a mistake is made in material you are quoting, note it by typing [sic] immediately following the error. It is not necessary to type [sic] every time if you are quoting extensive dialect. If more explanation of part of a quotation is needed, such as a definition (or the inclusion of a synonym), or if a word must be included or changed slightly in order to make more sense (such as he instead of I), or if you must change the verb tense in a quotation to match the rest of your essay, enclose the word(s) in brackets [ ] to indicate the change. You are not allowed to change the overall meaning of a quotation; changes are only intended to make the quotation more readable. Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. Works Cited: The list of works cited is always the last page of your essay. It should have the title “Works Cited” centered at the top (NOT in quotation marks, underlined, or bolded). Your textbook is considered an anthology (a collection of works by various authors) when preparing your works cited page. Use the following format for a work in an anthology: Last Name, First Name. “Poem Title.” Title of Book. Edition. Volume. Editors. City of Publication: Publishing Company, date. Page numbers. Print. (Indent the second line and include the publication medium at the end—Print, Web, etc.) For web sources, use the following abbreviations when these situations apply: N.p. for no publisher given; n.d. for no date given; n. pag. for no pagination if the page numbers are not given You may use a citation service such as KnightSite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php). The works cited page must be alphabetized. All sources used must be cited. Avoid plagiarism. On your works cited page, use three hyphens (instead of the author’s name) to indicate the same author as the preceding entry.