essay # 1 Assignment
English 106: Essay # 1
You are to treat this assignment with high seriousness. High seriousness makes plenty of room for playfulness, for flights of the imagination, for shock or delight. High seriousness leaves no slack for laziness, sloppiness, or other forms of unprofessionalism. Be bright and clever, but do not stop there: compose your ideas well. Ground all of your writing in close readings of the primary sources. Do not assume you have authority to make glib pronouncements. Earn your authority the hard way. Assume that you are a lawyer in the court of literary opinion. Help the jury look closely at all the textual evidence that supports your case. You may cite biographical and historical evidence as well. Put on the stand experts who support your claims. Write for a highly critical audience: do not assume that they will easily agree with you. Engage my mind; make me wish I had written what you wrote.
The first step: choose the texts you want to use. Think about which texts interested you the most in Poems for the Millenium. You need to pick at least one of the poems . You also need two secondary sources (a critic’s analysis of the poem and a critics review of one of the modernist movement for example).
Essay Assignment: choose one of the following movements and consider how your texts (poems) examine and complicate the tenents of the movement:
1) Russian Futurism
2) Italian Futurism
4) Expressionism
4) Dada
5) Surrealism
6) Objectivism
7) Negritude
8) ecopoetics
It is vital to create a narrow thesis on your chosen topic. Do not dwell on generalities
(i.e. Futurism emphasizes randomness ). You have a lot of room to create your own critical discussion. I am looking for a well-articulated, in-depth argument about one of the movements we discussed this semester. I am also looking for strong evidence of close, critical reading of the poem(s).
Develop a thesis statement to focus and guide your writing and revision decisions (focused topic + informed perspective = standpoint = thesis).
Definition of critical essay: to use analysis to interpret texts. A critical essay should do the following:
• Develop a position or perspective on a specific subject
• Examine the implications of that position or perspective
• Situate that perspective in context of other perspectives
• Communicate that perspective clearly to others in your written texts
Due Friday March 4th
(3-4 pages long, double-spaced, 12 font.)
You are to treat this assignment with high seriousness. High seriousness makes plenty of room for playfulness, for flights of the imagination, for shock or delight. High seriousness leaves no slack for laziness, sloppiness, or other forms of unprofessionalism. Be bright and clever, but do not stop there: compose your ideas well. Ground all of your writing in close readings of the primary sources. Do not assume you have authority to make glib pronouncements. Earn your authority the hard way. Assume that you are a lawyer in the court of literary opinion. Help the jury look closely at all the textual evidence that supports your case. You may cite biographical and historical evidence as well. Put on the stand experts who support your claims. Write for a highly critical audience: do not assume that they will easily agree with you. Engage my mind; make me wish I had written what you wrote.
The first step: choose the texts you want to use. Think about which texts interested you the most in Poems for the Millenium. You need to pick at least one of the poems . You also need two secondary sources (a critic’s analysis of the poem and a critics review of one of the modernist movement for example).
Essay Assignment: choose one of the following movements and consider how your texts (poems) examine and complicate the tenents of the movement:
1) Russian Futurism
2) Italian Futurism
4) Expressionism
4) Dada
5) Surrealism
6) Objectivism
7) Negritude
8) ecopoetics
It is vital to create a narrow thesis on your chosen topic. Do not dwell on generalities
(i.e. Futurism emphasizes randomness ). You have a lot of room to create your own critical discussion. I am looking for a well-articulated, in-depth argument about one of the movements we discussed this semester. I am also looking for strong evidence of close, critical reading of the poem(s).
Develop a thesis statement to focus and guide your writing and revision decisions (focused topic + informed perspective = standpoint = thesis).
Definition of critical essay: to use analysis to interpret texts. A critical essay should do the following:
• Develop a position or perspective on a specific subject
• Examine the implications of that position or perspective
• Situate that perspective in context of other perspectives
• Communicate that perspective clearly to others in your written texts
Due Friday March 4th
(3-4 pages long, double-spaced, 12 font.)
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