ENG 125 Week 1 Assignment Proposal for Final Paper

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ENG 125 Week 1 Assignment Proposal for Final Paper

In Week Five of this course, you will submit a four- to five-page Literary Analysis in response to one of the topics from the approved List of Writing Prompts. This week, you will choose the prompt you would like to explore, offer some information on what interests you about this prompt, and supply a working thesis and key ideas you would like to develop. Though it might seem early to choose your topic, with only five weeks in the course, it is important to start early to best set yourself up for success. 

After reviewing the list of prompts, choose one that you would like to explore. In addition, you should choose the text you will discuss from the List of Literary Works. Be sure to choose a text or texts as directed in your prompt of choice.

Once you have decided on a prompt and text, respond to the directives below using the Proposal for Final Paper Worksheet. Please make sure your document is double spaced.

In your paper:

• ·  Articulate what interests you most about this prompt.

• ·  Identify the specific text(s) you will write about, and explain the connection between the text and the

prompt you chose.

• ·  Develop a working thesis that articulates an argument about the literary text(s). (Keep in mind that

“working thesis” means you can slightly modify your thesis for the draft and/or final essay.) Please refer to the document “Writing a Clear and Sound Thesis for a Literary Analysis” (available in the onlineclassroom) for helpful information on how to write your thesis. For more help on how to write a thesis, please see the Ashford Writing Center.

• ·  Identify three key ideas that you will discuss in support of your thesis. Supporting points should reflect a critical reading of the text.

• ·  Describe any questions, concerns, and plans you have at this point for your project.

The Proposal for Final Paper

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted

In this class, you have three tutoring services available: Paper Review, Live Chat, and Tutor E-mail. Click on the Writing Center (AWC) tab in the left-navigation menu, in your online course, to learn more about these tutoring options and how to get help with your writing. 

ENG 125 Week 2 Assignment Annotated Bibliography

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ENG 125 Week 2 Assignment Annotated Bibliography

For this assignment, you will write an annotated bibliography on three sources. For detailed information on how to create your Annotated Bibliography, please see this Sample Annotated Bibliography.

In your Annotated Bibliography, you will 

• ·  Identify your primary source(s) and two secondary, academic sources. If you chose to discuss two poems in your Week One Assignment, each must have its own entry in the Annotated Bibliography.

• ·  Summarize each source and explain how the source supports your working thesis. These summaries should be 100 to 150 words for each entry.

For the Annotated Bibliography, you will write annotations for three sources. One source should be a primary source. The term primary source refers to

• ·  Original documents: Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records, etc.

• ·  Creative works: Poetry, drama, novels, music, art, etc.

The primary source is the story, poems, or play you choose to write about. Please see the List of Literary Works

to choose a primary source. The source must come from this list.

Examples of primary sources:

• ·  The United States Constitution.

• ·  Letters written by President Harry Truman when he was in office.

• ·  The Diary of Anne Frank, experiences of a Jewish family during World War II.

• ·  The Metamorphosis, a short story by Franz Kafka.

Next, you will choose two secondary sources that are additional to the text. Secondary sources are publications like textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, encyclopedias, etc. Examples of secondary sources include:

• ·  A journal/magazine article that interprets and offers analysis of a literary work.

• ·  The biography of an author that includes references.

• ·  A historical account of the author’s time period and era that includes references.

The two sources you locate must be academic sources and come from peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications. The library staff, being familiar with this course, can help you find these two sources. These sources can offer commentary on your story, or highlight the function of literary elements. 

The Annotated Bibliography

o ·  Must be 100 to 150 words for each entry and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford

Writing Center.

o ·  Must include a separate title page with the following:

o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted

· Must use at least one primary source and two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
o The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on

appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

In this class, you have three tutoring services available: Paper Review, Live Chat, and Tutor E-mail. Click on the Writing Center (AWC) tab in the left-navigation menu, in your online course, to learn more about these tutoring options and how to get help with your writing. 

ENG 125 Week 3 Assignment Literary Analysis Draft

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ENG 125 Week 3 Assignment Literary Analysis Draft

For your Week Three Assignment, you will write a two and a half page draft (excluding the title and references page) of your Week Five Final Paper. The draft should contain a working thesis (which you wrote in the Week One Assignment), an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Be sure to include some paraphrases and quotations of the reference material in your Week Two Annotated Bibliography. You should use your research to help you develop and support the thesis.

• ·  Develop the thesis from Week One based on the feedback you have received. Again, the thesis should offer a debatable claim in response to one of the prompts on the list.

• ·  Analyze the work(s) from the approved List of Literary Works chosen in Week One using the Eight Steps to Writing a Literary Analysis resource and include the three key ideas developed in the Week One Proposal.

• ·  Use one of the approved Writing Prompts to write your analysis.

• ·  Focus on one or two primary text(s).

• ·  Include references from at least two secondary sources identified on your Week Two Annotated Bibliography. More sources are not necessarily better.

• ·  Apply your knowledge of literary elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt. Reference the List of Literary Techniques.

• ·  Avoid any use of the first person.

• ·  Do not summarize the plot.

See the Eight Steps to Writing a Literary Analysis resource which provides information regarding how to effectively begin working on this project. You may use the Sample Literary Analysis as a reference, but do not re- use any information within this sample assignment.

Format your essay according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

• ·  Separate Title Page: Must include a separate title page that lists the following: an original title, your name, date of submission, and the professor’s name.

• ·  Double space: Double space the essay with one inch margins on the right and left and top and bottom. 

o ·  Separate References Page: At the end of your paper, include a separate references page that lists all sources utilized for and cited within your analysis.

o ·  Proper Citations: All sources must be properly cited according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, both within the text of your paper and on the references page.

The Literary Analysis Draft

o ·  Must be two and a half double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

o ·  Must include a separate title page with the following:

o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted

o ·  Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

o ·  Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 

ENG 125 Week 3 Discussion 2 Body Paragraph Workshop

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ENG 125 Week 3 Discussion 2 Body Paragraph Workshop

Prepare: First, read the information on the Ashford Writing Center’s web page, Thesis Statements. Then, read

the ENG125 Sample Literary Analysis. Pay close attention to the body paragraphs and thesis statements.

Reflect: Compare your working thesis statement to the thesis statement in the sample Literary Analysis. Does your thesis address relevant points like the example thesis? Then, look at a body paragraph in the sample Literary Analysis. Compare its construction to a body paragraph in your own paper.

Write: Post your working thesis and your strongest body paragraph into the discussion by Thursday (Day 3) at midnight; do not attach it as a separate document. For the purposes of this discussion only, signify your working thesis by including it in bold type and italicize the topic sentence of your body paragraph. Your body paragraph should include at least three examples of paraphrases and/or quotations (there should be at least one of each) with correct citations in APA format. After the body paragraph, be sure to include reference page citations for the paraphrased and cited sources. Then, answer the following three questions:

• ·  Explain the connection between the topic sentence and your working thesis. Would this connection be clear to someone without your explanation? If so, why? If not, how can you modify your topic sentence and/or thesis statement to make this connection more clear?

• ·  Explain the choice of reference material. How do the references support the topic sentence? Would this connection be clear to someone without your explanation? If so, why? If not, what information should you add to the paragraph to make this connection more clear?

• ·  Does the paragraph contain any unnecessary information? Does everything in it work to support the topic sentence? What information could be added or removed? In essence, you are being asked to evaluate the cohesion of your paragraph.

• ·  Note any other specific challenges faced or successes experienced when writing this paragraph or completing this discussion post. 

Respond to Peers: Be sure to respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Sunday at midnight. In your responses, post at least 100 words and evaluate your colleague’s paragraph and/or self‐evaluation. Do you agree with his/her responses to the questions? What else could he/she do to develop stronger body paragraphs? 

ENG 125 Week 5 Final Paper Literary Analysis (New October 2015)

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ENG 125 Week 5 Final Paper Literary Analysis

Why Write a Literary Analysis?

Literature teaches us about the value of conflict. We experience conflict in our personal relationships and in our interactions with society. A literary analysis helps us recognize the conflict at work in literature; this gives us greater insight into the personal conflicts that we face. In addition, learning how to closely read, analyze, and critique a text is beneficial beyond a literature course in that it improves our writing, reading, and critiquing abilities overall.

How to Write a Literary Analysis

It is important to understand that some conflicts in literature might not always be obvious. Considering how an author addresses conflict via literary techniques can reveal other more complex conflicts or different kinds of conflicts that interact in multiple ways. Analyzing those more complicated elements can help you discover what literature represents about the human experience and condition. With this in mind, consider that your thesis might be a claim how conflict is represented in a work, whether through character, setting, or tone.This is not a personal reflection on conflict in general or a conflict you face but an analysis of how literary elements are used to express a conflict in a given work.

The literary analysis should be organized around your rough draft and thesis statement. Your thesis is the controlling idea of the entire essay. In the Week One Assignment, you submitted a proposal in which you chose a topic based on the List of Writing Prompts. You also identified a story, a drama, or two poems to analyze from the List of Literary Works. In Week Two, you compiled an annotated bibliography in which you identified your primary and secondary sources. In Week Three, you created a rough draft, revised your working thesis, and provided analysis using the Eight Steps to Writing a Literary Analysis resource. You also incorporated research into this draft.

In this assignment, you will refine your thesis even further and develop your argument. You are required toincorporate your instructor’s feedback into your Final Paper and to take peer feedback into consideration.

In your paper, 

• ·  Create a detailed introduction that contains a thesis that offers a debatable claim based on one of the prompts on the list.

• ·  Apply critical thought by analyzing the primary source you selected from the approved List of Literary Works. Avoid summary and personal reflection.

• ·  Develop body paragraphs that contain clear topic sentences and examples that support the argument.

• ·  Write a conclusion that reaffirms the thesis statement and includes a summary of the key ideas in essay.

• ·  Apply your knowledge of literary elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt. Reference

the List of Literary Techniques.

• ·  Incorporate research from the primary and secondary sources.

See the Eight Steps to Writing a Literary Analysis resource that provides information regarding how to effectively begin working on this project. You may use the Sample Literary Analysis as a reference, but do not re-use any information within this sample assignment.

The Final Paper:

• ·  Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages), and formatted

according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

• ·  Must include a title page with the following:

o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted

· Must use one or two primary sources and two secondary scholarly sources in addition to the course text. oThe Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on

appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

• ·  Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

• ·  Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford

Writing Center. 

ENG 125 Week 1 Assignment Journal One Identifying Conflicts From Other Sources

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About Journals

What is a journal?

A journal is traditionally considered a personal reflective writing that is informal in nature. However, an academic journal for your college course is more than that. It is a way to practice formal academic writing, which pays close attention to spelling, grammar, and stylistics. It has a controlling thought that is explored and supported with appropriate sources. While the purpose of this journal is to have you thoughtfully respond to specific prompts and connect your learning to the assigned readings, it is not meant to be a demonstration of perfect APA style. However, you should follow general APA formatting and style guidelines (include your name, double space your paper, and reference your sources). 

How do I write a journal entry in ENG125?

In Weeks One, Two, and Four of this course, you are required to write a journal entry. Each journal prompt will provide specific information regarding what you need to respond to such as assigned readings, how conflict is intertwined into literature, and how certain literary techniques enhance and draw out certain conflicts. The instructions for each journal assignment are formatted using bulleted lists to help you organize your responses. The minimum word count for this assignment is 250 words, and you are expected to use APA style in setting up the document. 

Why will I write journal entries in ENG125?

The purpose of a journal entry in this class is to help you explore the relationship between conflict and how it is developed in different literary genres. Also, the goal is to develop your ideas about conflict, genre, and literary techniques through the next five weeks and build these ideas into your Week Five Literary Analysis. This activity will help you write a more effective and detailed literary analysis since you will have reflected on conflict and its representation in literature early and often in the course. 

How will my journal entry be assessed?

The instructor will review your journal entry to ensure that you have answered each bulleted point and incorporated the appropriate materials into your assignment. APA format and citations will play a minor role in the evaluation of this journal entry, as will grammar and stylistics. For more details on how your journal entry will be assessed, please review the rubric for this assignment located below. 

Journal One: Identifying Conflicts From Other Sources

For your first journal entry, you are required to explore the different types of conflict that are found not only in literature, but in everyday life. Be sure to read each type of conflict thoroughly to get a firm understanding of them since you will be analyzing these conflicts throughout the next five weeks. 

In your journal 

• Describe where you see each of the five conflicts in everyday life (e.g., in social media, music, literature, or online learning). How does conflict appear in two or three of the various venues mentioned above? 
• Identify what types of conflict you saw in one of this week’s reading assignments. 
• Give specific examples as support for each conflict you identified. 
• Explain why these conflicts are important and how they create meaning. What meaning(s) do they create? 

ENG 125 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Read Literature?

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Why Read Literature? 1st Post Due by Day 3. Chapter 1 of our text provides a number of reasons why people choose to explore literature. Clugston (2014) writes that there is “a powerful curiosity about human relationships and how to cope in the world in which we find ourselves” (section 1.1, “Connecting: Entering Into a Literary Experience,” para. 2). The text gives a number of general motivations for reading, but it is helpful to put those motivations into context. Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length, not including references.

In your post, answer the following questions:

What does literature offer an individual? 


• How has the importance of reading changed from earlier eras (pre-digital/audio/visual media) to our
  present day? Do you think we read differently now than we did in prior generations? 
• Do you think Clugston’s quote is valid? How have perceptions regarding the value of literature changed, if at all? 
• What causes people’s perceptions regarding the value of literature to change?
• As you consider these questions and begin writing, incorporate readings found in Chapters 1-3 to help illustrate the points you make.  Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial posts. Each response should be at least 75 words in length and address two or more of the following points: 
• Challenge your classmates’ interpretation of literature and/or point of view.
• Do a small amount of research and share what you learn with your peers about the topic discussed in this post.