question archive Length: Approximately 2-3 typed, double-spaced pages Format Specifications: Heading Example (the upper left corner of page 1): No cover sheets or inserting of heading in the header Student Name EGL 2130 Date Essay 1 -No larger than 12-inch font and one-inch margins all around -Create a title that describes the unique focus of your essay (centered at the top of page 1)
Length: Approximately 2-3 typed, double-spaced pages Format Specifications: Heading Example (the upper left corner of page 1): No cover sheets or inserting of heading in the header Student Name EGL 2130 Date Essay 1 -No larger than 12-inch font and one-inch margins all around -Create a title that describes the unique focus of your essay (centered at the top of page 1)
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Length:
Approximately 2-3 typed, double-spaced pages
Format Specifications:
Heading Example (the upper left corner of page 1): No cover sheets or inserting of heading in the header
Student Name
EGL 2130
Date
Essay 1
-No larger than 12-inch font and one-inch margins all around
-Create a title that describes the unique focus of your essay (centered at the top of page 1).
-1st or 3rd person (NOT BOTH)
-Use MLA format for in-text parenthetical citation and proper Works Cited page.
Prompt:
Narratives written by enslaved Africans and African Americans have served many purposes including alerting modern-day readers to the history and the daily lives of those that were once considered property under the laws of this country. Using one of the assigned narratives (Equiano, Jacobs, or Douglass), write an essay that offers an analysis using the following parameters:
-Analyze two major themes that appear in the narrative;
-Reflect how the style and tone of the narrative is reflective of the audience;
-Rate the overall effectiveness of the work.
As the writer, you must decide what your thesis will be, but it must incorporate the parameters listed above. Your thesis must be arguable to be effective, consider the 'why or how' aspect of what you are proposing. DO NOT simply retell or summarize what you have read.
Structural Suggestions
Introduction- Use the introduction to grab your reader’s attention; create a sense of expectation that makes readers want to continue on to discover the insights of your analysis. In the opening paragraph, you should identify the work that you are analyzing by title and author. Consider a short summary (no more than two sentences) and the historical issues surrounding the writer. The essay should clarify these issues so that readers who are have not read the literary text would still find your essay to be intelligible. The introduction should end with a thesis statement that identifies the main purpose of your essay.
Body- The body of the literary analysis should develop the thesis in detail by exploring 2-4 subtopics. Quotes from the literary text should be used to support your claims in the body. However, be sure to avoid writing an essay that strings together too many quotations without establishing a context for what the quoted passages are designed to illustrate.
Conclusion- The conclusion should sum up the essay without being repetitious. In the final paragraph of the essay, you should also draw some conclusions on the overall impact of the literary work on you as a reader.
