Category: English and Literature : English

When and why have these definitions changed and varied?  What impact do these definitions have on how historians have approached and written about the nation’s past?  

following these requirement:
Outline
In the first paragraph, write an introduction to your essay. Introduce the authors and the stories you have chosen. Explain why you chose these pieces. Include your thesis (the central theme or main idea) about the connections you see between the two stories and why that connection is meaningful.
In the second paragraph, summarize the first story. Identify the main characters. Describe the setting (time and place). Explain what happens in the plot and what the theme of the story is. Note important aspects of the author’s writing style, such as voice, point of view, vocabulary, etc.
In the third paragraph, summarize the second story. Identify the main characters. Describe the setting (time and place). Explain what happens in the plot and what the theme of the story is. Note important aspects of the author’s writing style, such as voice, point of view, vocabulary, etc. 
In the fourth paragraph, identify connections between the two stories. How does one story explain, inform, or support the other story? Present your ideas thoroughly. Use details from each story as evidence. 
In the fifth paragraph, write a conclusion. Restate your thesis and offer some point of evaluation. Were these authors successful in communicating a message? Why or why not? Why should we care about what they have to say? It doesn’t matter if you offer a positive or negative view; the important thing is that you support your opinion with information from the stories. 

Please upload a draft of your team’s proposal to DRAFT–Collaborative Proposal in USF Writes . Remember that this is only a draft, which means that it is unfinished and imperfect. Try to write as much of the proposal as your team can and address any obvious issues you notice, but assume that you’ll have plenty of time to fix major problems or write additional sections before the final draft.
Your team’s proposal should run approximately1,000 to 1,250 words (approx. 4-5 pages) and include:
a detailed description of a problem affecting the USF campus or local area
a well-supported potential solution that provides evidence for its claims
at least three visual elements (charts, graphs, or other images) that emphasize important points in the proposal
You may borrow formatting from any of the example proposals we’ve looked at this semester, or your team can determine what format works best for the information you want to present. 
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Instructions attached. To summarize approximately 1-2 pages in the third person, present tense then respond 1-2 pages in the first person of “Me Talk Pretty One Day”. disregard the questions and talking points at the end of the attached reading.

if you chose Psychological Criticism, you might include (1) theoretical source about the merits and uses of psychological criticism as a whole and (2) a psychological study on intergenerational trauma that you can then apply to the characters in There, There. This paper will test your ability to critically analyze a text, as well as your capacity for thoughtful research.
Completion (30 points): Paper is turned in on time, responds appropriately to the assignment, and is a minimum of 2,000 words and no longer than 3,000 words.
Theoretical Research (25 points): Paper includes at least (1) outside source that is relevant to the field of study; the source is a peer reviewed, scholarly article; quotes chosen from outside source are relevant to the paper’s main argument and help support the analysis.
Contextual Research (25 points): Paper includes at least (1) outside source that sets the contextual scene of the paper’s argument. This might mean a historical document to give background for the novel (for example, history of the U.S. government and Native American relations, an overview of the creation of Native American History month, the history of Thanksgiving, etc.); an interview with the author that includes their goals or perspective; a psychological study (for example, if you want to talk about alcoholism in the novel, you should include a text that discusses the psychological history, treatment, or causes of alcoholism); etc.
Analysis (55 points): No matter what literary theory chosen, the paper goes beyond the surface level, focusing not only on what happened in the story, but diving deeper into the how and why, highlighting in particular the consequences and effects of the story’s elements and author’s choices.
MLA Format (10 points): Paper is written in MLA format, including a header on the first page, last name and page number on the top right corner of each page, and Times New Roman 12 pt font used throughout.
Works Cited Page (10 points): Paper includes a Work Cited page in MLA format, with alphabetically ordered citations. Note: Papers without any works cited page will receive a 0 on the essay as a whole. These points refer to the MLA style and format of the citations.
Quotes (15 points): Paper utilizes direct quotes and/or summaries from the novel, utilizing appropriate moments from the text to support the paper’s argument.
In-Text citations (15 points): Whether a quote or paraphrase, moments from the novel are cited with in-text citations that include the author’s name when necessary and the page number. It is always clear whether the novel or the outside scholarly source is being quoted.
Grammar and Syntax (15 points): Paper is generally free from grammatical errors, uses complete sentences, and is generally easy for the reader to understand.

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Unit VII Final Research Paper
Assignment objective: In this assignment, you will produce your final paper with the addition of the counterargument and conclusion paragraph, your revised introduction paragraph and developed body paragraphs, and a references page with at least three sources.
Length: The overall paper should be 1,300 to 1,500 words, not counting the references page.
References: At least three sources are required, and at least one must come from the CSU Online Library. All sources should be academically credible (academic journals, eBooks, periodicals, organizational websites, etc.) and no more than 5 years old. Use APA Style 7th edition standards to format the reference citations for each source.
Details: In this assignment, you will transition the outline you created in Unit IV into at least three body paragraphs; be sure to implement your professor’s suggestions and feedback from the Unit IV assignment. You will also write the paper’s counterargument and conclusion.
The paper should include all the following components (in order):
Title page
Introduction
Body paragraphs
Counterargument
Conclusion
References page
Introductory Paragraph:
Include approximately six sentences.
The introduction paragraph serves to introduce the topic and the paper’s thesis statement.
Make the suggested revisions based on the feedback you received in Unit IV.
Body Paragraphs:
Include at least three paragraphs.
Transition the outline of the body you produced in Unit IV to full paragraph form to support the paper’s thesis (revisit Unit VI lessons on transitions and cohesion).
Each body paragraph should address one of the justifications of the thesis statement’s position.
Counterargument:
Include approximately six to seven sentences.
Introduce an argument that opposes the argument made in the thesis statement and then refute it (revisit Unit VI lessons on introducing a counterargument).
Conclusion:
Include approximately six sentences.
Bring the paper to a close by emphasizing the importance of the issue and the controversy and answer the “so what?” question.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.
Feed back from unit VI: 1. Remember the required elements of this introduction paragraph.
Remember to close your introduction with a clear, focused thesis statement. The thesis statement should state what your claim is and why. If your reader were to read only your thesis statement, they should have a clear understanding of what your essay is about. Your thesis statement is the roadmap for your paper and should introduce what information you will cover in your essay.
2. I realize an outline is only helpful for some, but when you are writing an essay with lots of information, sometimes it can help to have a tool that will help you put things in order. It’s much easier to move information around in an outline than when you have written several pages. Overall, I wanted to see a bit more detai

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