Writing Question

instructions

Please note only those students with a Class Attendance and Participation grade of 70% or above may take advantage of this opportunity. This assignment, if completely correctly, will add five points to your current final draft grade (create and upload as two separate Word documents).

Step 1: Revise your Week 9 Essay: Literary Analysis (Poetry), producing the cleanest, best version of the paper that you can produce. Your resubmission must include all of my comments and corrections made on your working and final drafts.

Step 2: Write a two-paragraph reflection, one focusing on the process and final essay and another focusing on your evolution as a writer and critical thinker this semester. Focus on your strengths, areas of improvement, and places where there is still opportunity for growth.

NOTE: Any submissions including AI verbiage will be voided. In addition, you will lose one additional extra credit pass that was previously awarded.

THE week 9 ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS I NEED TO MAKE UP

Week 10 Essay: Literary Analysis Final Draft (Poetry)

Purpose

First, the purpose of this assignment is to put into practice what you have learned about

effectively and critically reading, thinking about, analyzing, and writing about poetry. Second, you

will be expected to write and support a well-written, explicit literary thesis statement. Third, will

be required to find and cite, per MLA, the primary resource (the text itself) and secondary (any

other text) resources obtained from GALILEO. Finally, you will be required to exercise the process

of review and revision.

Tasks

1. Select a poem from the list below on which to write your essay. Off-topic essays will receive

a grade of 0%=F.

Phyllis Wheatleys “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

Elizabeth Alexanders “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe”

Amanda Gormans “The Hill We Climb”

William Shakespeares “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?”

Matsuo Basho’s haiku (444)

Sonia Sanchez’s “14 haiku”

Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son” , “The Weary Blues” (458), OR “Harlem (A Dream

Deferred)”

Clint Smith’s “For Your First Birthday”

W.D. Ehrharts “The Sins of the Father

Gwen Harwoods “In the Park”

Emily Dickinsons “Im Nobody! Who Are You?” (508) OR “Because I Could Not Stop for

Death”

William Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us” OR “I Wandered Lonely as a

Cloud”

William Blake’s “The Tyger”

Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”

Tupac Shakur’s The Rose That Grew from Concrete” OR “Liberty Needs Glasses”

2. Complete an outline of your essay using the Literary Analysis Essay Outline that is provided

under the Readings/Resources content area in D2L.

4. Your introductory paragraph must end with a literary thesis statement (use the Five Step

Process formula). Be sure to cite the resource utilized for your authors biographical

information.

5. Support your thesis in the body of your essay by citing the primary resource (the text itself)

at least once.

6. Support your thesis in the body of your essay by citing at least one scholarly secondary

resource obtained only from GALILEO. Do not cite Wikipedia, literature summary websites

(e.g., SparksNotes, LitCharts), or unreliable resources in your paper.

7. Your essay must cite at least three resources: the primary resource, the authors

biography/literary period resource, and a secondary resource obtained from GALILEO. Your

citations must follow the MLA guidelines.

8. Your essay must be at least three pages in length (approximately 750 words), but it may be

longer.

9. End your essay with an MLA formatted Works Cited page.

10. Complete the Poetry Essay Peer Review Exercise, and update your essay to include the

recommended changes.

11. On a page following your Works Cited page entitled Reflection, list at least three errors that

you made on your Week 5 Writing Exercise: Annotated Bibliography (Fiction) that you focused

on and correctly addressed in your essay.

12. The Turnitin dropbox where you are submitting this assignment is enabled with a plagiarism

and Artificial Intelligence (e.g., ChatGPT, QuillBot, Scribbr, Grammarly) detector.

Assignments with percentages over 25% will be reviewed for potential violations of the

Academic Honesty Policy and may be issued a grade of zero. You can check your Match

Overview after submitting your assignment, but the AI percentage is only visible to your

instructor. Repeated violations of the Academic Honesty Policy may result in grade of

F in the class.

Criteria

In order to receive a 100%= A on this assignment, you should read and follow the directions

carefully, follow the MLA guidelines (formatting and citing), review and edit your assignment,

complete the assignment in its entirety (all parts)

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