Use transitions and conjunctive adverbs, homework help
• Use transitions and conjunctive adverbs so you can create complex sentences and avoid writing short choppy sentences • Remember: effective analysis will clearly illustrate relationships between your ideas • Create transitional sentences between your body paragraphs • Do not use, I, me, you, us- write in 3rd person.
* You do need to focus on the issue from the thesis you select as you write this essay. You do not need to use any other sources apart from the story as you analyze the issue
Thesis statement choice : Teenage men often view and judge others harshly and are demeaning as they look around them, but in reality they possess a warped perception of everyone around them as being followers and broken when in reality they no more independent and flawless as those they are so quick to judge.
*You should place the thesis at the end of your introduction*
Do not summarize the story, as I do not need to read summary but only analysis and interpretation. You have to use quotes to support your analysis and you have to interpret and explain how the quotes support your analysis. It is not sufficient to just include the quotes. You have to analyze the quotes effectively and tie this analysis back to the thesis. Don’t focus exclusively on the story as you take the thesis you selected and then discuss and explain it. If you go back and look at the three thesis statements right now, you will see that each of them describes a situation that exists outside of the story and exists in the real World. This is an important concept to follow because as you discuss and explore because you don’t want to just explain the issue as it appears in the story, but instead use the story to illustrate how the issue is one that exists in the real World and has validity as in issue to explore. You are not writing literary analysis but rather writing about life analysis and using a piece of literature (also known as a text) to help explore and explain this issue.
FYI: in this class, a text is used to refer to any piece we read. All genres of fiction and non-fiction can be referred to as texts.
(Do not mention the story, author, title, or any characters whatsoever in the introduction or in any topic sentences. In fact, do not mention any reference to the story at all in the first two sentences of any body paragraph)
-Pay attention to format and MLA parenthetical citation and documentation.
-Review the sample essays. (I’ll leave an example below)
-Pay attention to the format instructions in Course Info.
-Include a Work Cited Page. Make sure you are following MLA formatting.
-Do not retell the story.
-Give detailed attention to the thesis statement you choose and ensure your discussion revolves around supporting and exemplifying that thesis.
-Do not begin paragraphs or sentences with quotes.
-Dumped Quotation: A “dumped quotation” occurs when the writer offers no introductory strategy regarding the textual support being used. The quotation is often a sentence by itself.
This is what a dumped quotation looks like:
Chaya sometimes experiences difficulty separating herself from the stories she tells. “Hansel, let out your finger, that I may see if you are fat or lean” (128).
Work the quotation into your sentence. Take the opportunity to control the quotation rather than letting it control you:
Indeed, Chaya sometimes experiences difficulty separating herself from the stories she tells as is indicated when Rivka tells her one morning that “[a]nyone who cannot get out of bed today will be chosen” to die (128). Hannah replies, “Hansel, let out your finger, that I may see if you are fat or lean” (128).
When you have properly integrated your quotation, your words should flow directly into the quotation.
Other considerations when quoting:
Avoid “on page ____.”
Instead of:
Chaya sometimes experiences difficulty separating herself from the stories she tells. On page 128, Rivka says “Anyone who cannot get out of bed today will be chosen.” On page 128 Hannah responds, “Hansel, let out your finger, that I may see if you are fat or lean.
ESSAY EXAMPLE:
Chaya sometimes experiences difficulty separating herself from the stories she tells. At one point Rivka warns Hannah that “Anyone who cannot get out of bed today will be chosen” (128). Drawing from “Hansel and Gretel,” Hannah responds, “Hansel, let out your finger, that I may see if you are fat or lean” (128).
Explain the significance of the quote (but please avoid using “this quote shows/demonstrates/tells”):
Chaya does in a sense become Gretel, the child kept as a prisoner and subjected to another’s will and power. Indeed, Chaya sometimes experiences difficulty separating herself from the stories she tells as is indicated when Rivka tells her one morning that “[a]nyone who cannot get out of bed today will be chosen” to die (128). Hannah replies, “Hansel, let out your finger, that I may see if you are fat or lean” (128). And later, as she and three others walk through the doors of Lilith’s Cave, she tells them a story “about a girl. An ordinary sort of girl named Hannah Stern who lives in New Rochelle” (159). The person she once was is now only one more narrative in her collection.
