Final English Paper : ENG 125

——READ BOTTOM 1^st!—– We already did this last week, now we just have to wrap it all up in the Final Paper 😉

Final Paper
Write an eight- to ten-page paper, in which you compare and contrast two literary works from this course that share the same theme
(using the “Themes & Corresponding Works” list, below, as a guide).  

The paper should be organized around your thesis (argument), which is the main
point of the entire essay. When developing a thesis for a comparative paper,
consider how a comparison of the works provides deeper insight into the topic
of your paper (i.e., think about why you have chosen to look at these
particular works in relation to one another). In your analysis, consider the
relationships among the following elements:

• Content
• Form (e.g., short story vs. poem)
• Style

Assignment
Requirements

• Topic: Must address one of the topics in the guidelines
• Length: Your draft should be eight to ten double-spaced pages
  in length (excluding title and reference page)
• Sources: Utilize at least six scholarly sources to support
  your thesis (including the course text and at least two sources from the
  Ashford Online Library).
• APA: Your draft must be formatted to APA (6th edition)
  style.
  • Separate Title Page: Must include an original title
  • Separate Reference Page
  • Proper Citations: All sources must be properly cited, both within the
    text and in a separate reference page.
• Elements of Academic Writing:  All academic papers should include these
  elements.
  • Introduction with a thesis statement
  • Supporting paragraphs
  • Conclusion

Themes
& Corresponding WorksChoose
only two of the works within your selected theme.

• Race / Ethnicity
  • Country Lovers (Gordimer)
  • The Welcome Table (Walker)
  • What It’s Like to Be a Black
    Girl (Smith)
  • Child of the Americas (Morales)
• Gender Roles / Marriage
  • The Story of an Hour (Chopin)
  • The Necklace (de Mauppassant)
  • Country Lovers (Gordimer)
  • Gift of the Magi (Henry)
  • How I Met My Husband (Munro)
  • My Last Duchess (Browning)
  • Hills Like White Elephants (Hemingway)
  • Morning Song (Plath)
• Creativity / The Creative Process
  • Poetry (Neruda)
  • Constantly Risking Absurdity (Ferlinghetti)
  • You, Reader (Collins)
• Death and Impermanence
  • A Father’s Story (Dubus)
  • Do Not Go Gentle into that
    Good Night (Thomas)
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost)
  • In Memoriam (Tennyson)
  • Because I Could Not Stop for
    Death (Dickinson)
  • The Things They Carried (O’Brien)
  • The Hunger Artist (Kafka)
  • Ozymandias (Shelley)
  • Futility (Owen)
• Nature
  • Wild Geese (Oliver)
  • Dover Beach (Arnold)
  • The Oak (Tennyson)
  • Hope is a Thing With Feathers (Dickenson)
  • Home to Roost (Ryan)
  • Fog (Sandberg)
• Symbolism of the Journey
  • A Worn Path (Welty)
  • Good Country People (O’Conner)
  • Hay for the Horses (Snyder)

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READ HERE FIRST—>

This the Critique the Instructor gave on “Rough
Draft” submitted 2 weeks ago…

“Good start here!  So you’ve done a
wonderful job of comparing the plots of these two pieces.  My concern is
that right now, this essay almost exclusively deals with plot.  What you
also need to talk about is form and style.  Form refers to elements such
as setting, point of view, story vs. poem, etc.  Style refers to elements
such as figurative language, symbolism, irony, etc.  What I recommend is
that you break this essay into three sections between the intro and conclusion:
Content, Form, and Style.  Then, identify the similarities and differences
between the two works.  Be sure that you expand your ideas to develop Form
and Style.  Explain what makes these works similar in terms of setting and
point of view, as well as how they are different.  Explain which elements
they are both using and which are different.  This will help to bring your
paper in line with exploring all these elements.  Also, be sure to find plenty
of resources to meet the expectations, but remember that finding the same story
or poem in another book does not count toward this expectation.”

I will send you the original “rough
draft” next…Once you place you bid please