please follow the thesis tips, no outside sources. I will include the pdf. Please no plagiarism. you will write a
short analytical essay about the reading. I know this can be harder than synthesizing conversations and
refining your thoughts after a discussion, but these serve a different purpose (remember: the focus is on
PROCESS, not the "right answer" or whether you've learned the "content"; the point is to develop literary
theses (see Thesis Tips below). • Papers should be 400 to 600 words in length. • For weeks with multiple
works on the syllabus, write about just one. Indeed, write about just one small aspect of one small part of one
of the texts. You can't cover a whole book in a short paper. Start as small as you can: a mark of punctuation, a
single word, a mood tense. It's always easier to build up. • See the "Thesis Tips" document under FILES for
guidelines. Developing the kind of literary thesis outlined in those tips is the single main objective of this
course. Hints: Essays should NOT be personal responses or reading diaries (e.g. did you like the book, was it
difficult, do you think it's good, is one character just like your uncle, etc); instead, they should be logical
arguments built from an analysis of textual details. Focus on the specific language of a given passage (or set of
passages) you can quote. Focus on how the text works, rather than what it is about. Keep in mind that
COMPREHENSION is not the same as ANALYSIS (this is why re-reading is key to advanced literary study).
Your paper is not a demonstration that you've read the assigned text, or can give a synopsis. Your thesis
should not be something that anyone could have come up with on a first reading. 5 Use textual evidence to
shift your claims about a text from possible to probable.
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