In this assignment, you should turn your outline into a full draft. It should be a traditional five paragraph essay. It should have an intro, conclusion, and three body paragraphs. There should be at least two quotes from your story in each body paragraph. You should use MLA format completely, which means you should have a heading and header as well as in-text citations and a works cited page with a “story from an anthology” style citation.
You should think about this draft in relation to the discussion boards we have been doing in this way:
The first sentence, your thesis, should be expanded to having an intro before it that introduces your thesis, not the story. You should think of your audience as someone who is familiar with the story already. Basically, for academic essays like these, you should write for an audience that is knowledgeable and skeptical. Don’t feel like you need to explain the story itself. In other words, there is no need for summary. You should speak in the terms of your analysis at all times. You are trying to convince your audience that your claim about the elements in the story are presented by the author as you suggest they are. The next part of your discussion board in which you analyze a quote and connect it to your thesis should be thought of as half of one of your body paragraphs. This means that you should basically provide six pieces of evidence and explanation and introduction instead of one. Finally, you will provide a concluding paragrah.
