Literary Analysis on Kindred by Octavia Butler Assignment | Get Paper Help

ENG 200 Literary Analysis Prompt
4+ pages; 15% of final grade
Due Sunday, 5/10 by 11:59 via Blackboard Submission
For this literary analysis essay, you will focus on a close reading analysis of any of the short stories, or an aspect of one of the novels Kindred or Oryx & Crake.
Consider the length of this essay assignment when choosing a topic, and what parts of the text you are going to explore. For example, you could easily write five pages one significant sub-chapter of Oryx & Crake. Think, specific and narrow when crafting your thesis, make sure each paragraph has one main point to make, and that that point supports your thesis. This is your mantra: Write a lot about a little.
Notes about writing:
• Consider your audience. Write in a style and tone that is both academic and accessible. Your purpose is to make yourself understood by an audience of educated and interested peers familiar with the text you are writing about.
• Do not write long sections of summary. Use summary in a similar way as quotes or paraphrasing—meaning be brief, highlighting significant passages in order to point to a specific area of the text for the purpose of focusing your analysis and making your argument.
• Also, while I value your response to the text, as this informs your interpretation—do not use this in place of close reading analysis. Only after you have done so are you invited to offer you own response to the work. Any commentary or questions you wish to raise may appear as part of your conclusion, for example, suggesting avenues for further thought and study.
• Pay attention to the quality of your writing and proofread your work. Be detailed but concise. Edit out unnecessary words and redundancies. Revise repetitive language.
• Follow MLA style (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point font).
• When quoting, include the author’s name and page number in parentheses at the end of the quotation unless you mention the author in the sentence.
• The first time you mention the author, use their full name (In Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt”…), after that use their last name (Bradbury uses the nursery to show…).
• A Work Cited entry should appear at the end of your paper. As we have used pdf files, I have provided the bibliographic information you need for the short stories. You will find it on Blackboard, in the short story section. It is not in MLA format—you will need to do that, and you can find out how on the website Purdue OWL MLA.
• Read your essay! Each time you sit down to work on this, start by reading what you have already written. This will help you revise with fresh eyes—catching confusing wording, grammar issues, over long summary, typos, etc. It may also help you to turn average writing into thoughtful pieces of prose that border on works of art and philosophical ruminations. Then just before you turn it in, read it aloud! This can help you catch typos, small grammar errors, and hear awkward sentence construction.
Successful Essays Will:
• Have an appropriately narrow, fully developed, and thoughtful thesis.
• Be well-organized with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Paragraphs are well developed. Each paragraph explains one main point that illuminates the thesis.
• Avoid vague language and obvious generalizations.
• Meet, or slightly exceed, the minimum page requirement.
• Be free of major mechanical errors, such as comma splices, run on sentences, sentence fragments, agreement errors, capitalization errors, etc. Visit the Writing Center if grammar is a challenge for you.
• Use direct quotations and examples. The writer supports their claims with frequent specific textual references.