First Major Paper Prompt
English 2850 First Paper
Choose a work of literature from the syllabus that you found particularly powerful or interesting. Explain what you see as the central purpose of the text. What idea or truth does it express or communicate? Does it have any insights to offer about its own cultural context? Does it have something to teach us, contemporary readers? What sort of emotional effect is it trying to produce? Does the text allow you to view a particular issue in a new way? How does it do this? What kinds of strategies in terms of its style (its form, its images, its word choice) does it use in order to make an impact on its readers and get its idea across?
4-6 Pages, double-spaced. Due October 10