ARGUMENT REGARDING STREEBY AND CARSON
You are expected to support your argument with sufficient evidence from the text(s). This includes a minimum of two close readings of passages from the novel in which you attend to: language–formal literary devices including metaphor, symbolism, and/or imagery. A close reading is a formal analysis; it is not a summary. Essentially, any argument must have support. Also, any argument must be explicitly stated in the introduction as a formal thesis statement, which informs your reader of the ″what″ and the ″how″: what will you be arguing, and how will you prove your point? Future essays will also ask for the ″why″! Effective essays will include a formal introduction that includes a thesis statement; a separate essay body that contains sufficient evidence; and a formal conclusion in which you summarize the argument of the essay. Essays do not have to be five paragraphs. Indeed, a good essay includes as many paragraphs as it needs in order to effectively communicate its argument and to sufficiently support it. Your essay must be formatted according to MLA guidelines for in-text citations, must be double-spaced, and must be saved as a Microsoft Word document. You are expected to support your argument with sufficient evidence from the text(s). This includes a minimum of two close readings of passages from the novel in which you attend to: language–formal literary devices including metaphor, symbolism, and/or imagery. A close reading is a formal analysis; it is not a summary. Essentially, any argument must have support. Also, any argument must be explicitly stated in the introduction as a formal thesis statement, which informs your reader of the ″what″ and the ″how″: what will you be arguing, and how will you prove your point? Future essays will also ask for the ″why″! Effective essays will include a formal introduction that includes a thesis statement; a separate essay body that contains sufficient evidence; and a formal conclusion in which you summarize the argument of the essay. Essays do not have to be five paragraphs. Indeed, a good essay includes as many paragraphs as it needs in order to effectively communicate its argument and to sufficiently support it. Your essay must be formatted according to MLA guidelines for in-text citations, must be double-spaced, and must be saved as a Microsoft Word document.