Formal Persuasive Literary Evaluation & Analysis
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PROMPT #2: Another English adjunct professor is looking for your opinion, as a college student, regarding the required 1010 fiction readings and how relatable they are in the classroom--or how relatable they are to young people in 2018.  Pick 1 -2 of the stories we read and write a formal 1000+ word argumentative evaluation essay.

You may choose to compare and contrast between two stories--or 2 characters in a single story--or two choices in a single story, evaluating which you think is the “better” of the two [stories/ plots/ protagonists/ settings/ themes/ conflicts] from our literary analysis unit. You will need to ground your reasoning using textual examples from both in order to explain why.
You may instead argue which story is “best,” in other words,  most relatable or most important for young people to read in a classroom and offer real life personal, social, or political lessons you think it could be helpful for.  You must use textual examples from the literary works as your primary evidence, and only offer common knowledge or personal observation that require no research.
Do not use any sources not listed on the course bibliography; no external research allowed.



For this assignment, the skills you will master for your teacher are:

1: Picking descriptive, arguable, evaluative vocabulary (not words like good, better, best, bad, worse, worst,  amazing, awesome, awful, boring, unlikeable, et al.)

2: Illustrating a clear understanding of the difference between summary, evaluation, and analysis. Avoid plot summary in favor of bulshitting symbolism.

3: Making tone adjustments and selective omissions when writing to an audience with an in depth knowledge of all of the provided sources

4: Selecting quotations that best supplement your argument as appropriate supporting details and maintain a persuasive purpose above an informative purpose.

5: Using appropriate introductory tags (signal phrases) before every quotation

6: Producing detailed MLA parenthetical in-text citations, on both quotations and plot paraphrasing & summary

7: Paraphrasing, reflecting, and analyzing each selected quotation and plot point with connections to the topics and claim

8: Formatting a perfect MLA Works Cited page based solely on classroom bibliography

9: Beginning with a phenomenal heading, title, pathos hook, and thesis statement in the introduction

10: Ending with a phenomenal transition, claim restatement, and ethos gesture in the conclusion



Genre: Formal Essay

Purpose: Persuasive Claim

Audience: Faculty member

Argument: Evaluative/Compare & Contrast

Length: 1000+ words (roughly 4.0 pages)


Stories:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-DN8WdTrPibeGNncEN0YzRoNFU/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-DN8WdTrPibVG52UEU1dEh1YjA/view