You will analyze a literary text chosen from our course reading assignments and construct an argument about a specific aspect of the text
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Please submit a draft of your Textual Analysis Essay so that I may provide you with some feedback. Try to make this draft as complete and developed as you possibly can. The further along and more developed your draft is, the better and more helpful my feedback will be. (If you don’t work very hard on this draft, then the feedback you receive will likely point out issues you already know about.)The Textual Analysis Essay offers you an opportunity to continue building upon the analytic skills you used for the Summary and Analysis Essay. As Acheson explains, any good essay about literature will present an “argument, based upon evidence, about the power, meaning, or structure of the work” (4). This is your goal for the Textual Analysis Essay. In this 4-page essay, you will analyze a literary text chosen from our course reading assignments and construct an argument about a specific aspect of the text. You will use specific textual evidence to support your claims. A thesis statement is needed to explore this device. After you have chosen your reading, choose one of these prompts to guide you toward a specific focus and thesis.
Please note: This is not a research paper. You only need to consult the primary text (the chosen/assigned literary text) to complete this assignment. If you choose, you may also consult and cite one reference source. However, this is not required and analysis of the primary source (the story) should be the focus of the essay. You may not cite more than one secondary source. Do not merely summarize the text. A good essay will include a good explanation of the text, usually in the first or second paragraph, but 90% of the paper should be analysis. The format of this paper is MLA Style (Links to an external site.
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