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Essay 2: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (5 – 6 pages)
This second critical essa
Essay 2: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (5 – 6 pages)
This second critical essay will allow you to address the transformative
power and relevance of Louise Erdrich’s novel in the canons of both
Native American and American literatures. While your analysis may
explore different aspects of the text, be sure to have a specific and
unifying claim about the novel’s particular merits and connections to
ethnic studies. (You will receive a list of essay prompts to help you in
this process.) As you bring in evidence from the novel, please include
at least eight substantial quoted passages. Also include quoted
support from course materials and quotes from at least four outside
critical sources from your own research.
Essay Format Guidelines
• Include a cover page (see example in the MLA sample below)
with your name, essay title, and thesis statement. The cover
page does not contribute to the minimum essay page count.
• Double-space every line in your essay and use 12-point font in
Times New Roman. Frame the text (including your last name
and page number) with a 1-inch margin.
• Indent new paragraphs about half an inch, without adding extra
space between paragraphs.
• Your essay’s content is always previewed by the title, so make it
engaging—not “Essay 1” or “Native American Lit Essay.”
• Italicize titles of books, films, and journals. Use quotation marks
for titles of short stories, poems, songs, videos, and articles in
journals.
• Avoid plagiarism by identifying the source of a quote or your
paraphrase of its wording. Contact me at any point (and
definitely before the due date) if you have any questions!
• When quoting, preserve the distinction between singles (‘x’)
and doubles (“x”). Quotes within quotes receive singles.
• When quoting from a poem, copy lines exactly as they appear
on the page. If you are using a block quote, type out the line as
far as spacing will permit and if there are still words to include,
go to the next line, indent, and finish the line. In an in-text
quote, use one virgule (/) to show line breaks, two (//) for
stanza.
• When quoting, preserve the distinction between brackets [ ]
and parentheses ( ). You can make changes to quoted material
by placing your change [in brackets], even ellipses […] to show
an omission. (When you make asides in your own writing, you
use parentheses.)
• Periods and commas go inside quotation marks, except after
page citations.
• Dashes—like this—are wide. Hyphens are the short split-or-
compound-term marks.
• All citations should follow MLA format, and you will need an
accompanying Works Cited page. This page does not
contribute to the minimum page count.
• Discuss literature, nonfiction, and films in the present tense.
• Refer to an author, critic, or filmmaker by full name or last
name.
• Revise first and edit later, and then proofread as a final step.
Take pride in your work!
Your essay’s argument will depend heavily on your detailed analysis
of the material. When we analyze something, we look at its different
parts and decide how those parts illustrate and contribute to a unifying
idea. By analyzing, we focus on certain details, a process that helps us
from simply retelling the plot, or storyline. It is important to use the
present tense when discussing material from the texts—that way, the
essay is about ideas that the texts support, texts that exist in real time
for readers. Analysis of a text goes beyond summarizing its content
(the what) to consider the dynamics or significance of it (the how or
why), in part by examining rhetorical choices: those elements in the
text that emphasize certain ideas or attempt to persuade you in
certain directions.
Take the time to craft your thesis statement. It is the anchor of your
discussion. It should be phrased in the present tense and not tell the
reader what you are planning to say; instead, it should convey a clear
and compelling idea. Your thesis statement should also mention the
main featured works, should offer a unified idea rather than a list of
items, and should clearly connect to the topic sentences.
Notice how a block quote looks:
There are no outside quotation marks,
just the words, verbatim, from whatever
source you’re using. (Author 23-24)
And this is an “in-text quote” (21)
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