Submit your final, revised essay in the Turnitin drop box found in this LU. 

For your thesis statement, make sure to identify the work, make a claim about what is being communicated on a deeper level by the author, and include the points of support you’ll be discussing in the paper.

For the claim in your thesis statement, make sure to be specific—have a clear, insightful point. Avoid being vague or making a surface or plot level statement.  If you only refer to the work’s message, without explicitly stating what it is, or say that literary devices are being used to improve the story, you won’t have a clear, insightful claim, only a vague or surface level statement.

For your topic sentences, identify the point of support you’ll be discussing in the paragraph and reference your claim.

Make sure your title is informative or creative, rather than just a label. 

Short story titles should be in quotation marks or italicized.

In a work of fiction, the narrator and the author are not the same person. 

Only use an author’s first and last name or last name, never just his or her first name.

Remember to introduce any quotes with a small introductory phrase or be connecting it to the sentence before with a colon.

Remember to cite any quoted material with an MLA in-text citation.

For an MLA citation, no comma is needed between the author’s name and the page number.

For an MLA citation, make sure to capitalize the author’s name and put a period after the citation.

For a citation at the end of a sentence, only the period after the citation is needed, not one before in the quotation too.

Make sure to indent your paragraphs five spaces or by using the TAB button.

A paragraph should only have one main point. 

A well-developed paragraph should be about a half a page long.

Tone refers to the author’s attitude toward the subject matter, not a character’s perspective.  

When analyzing literature, remember to use present tense when referring to events in the text.

After each individual plot point mentioned, make sure to offer some analysis, tell the reader why this plot point is relevant, before moving on to the next one. If you have multiple plot points in a row without analysis in between, you’ve slipped into summary. 

Hope this helps!

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Fiction Essay Outline

Introduction

The fictional essay will entail a story from America (Hock & Stephen PG 1-5).On August 15th 2020, I was working late at my workplace on that fateful night. It was not a usual night because everything felt quieter than the usual days. It was that one night that left me shivering and this was not because of the cold that was outside because the heater in the office were on and I had my jacket on. The shiver was from the chilling fear that hit me once in a while as I was working. This was a different night and it was evident. The functional story will be about how I was working with a murderer but I did not know for years. My personal secretary was a murderer but I had no idea.

· The following part of the essay will introduce the fictional essay by outlining what will be discussed throughout the essay.

· The background information will be offered in this part of the essay.

· The thesis statement will be stated to explain the information that will be presented in the rest of the essay and the key focus of the essay.

Purpose

The number of murders has increased over the years causing havoc in the world and to be specific in the workplace. As organizations try to embrace diversity as well as inclusion in the workplace, there is the need to understand each employee from a personal point and using their background information to understand their current and future Behaviours.

· A thorough analysis of the entire essay will be described in this essay.

· The purpose of the fictional essay will be to help in discussing the importance of having a background check for all employees.

Conclusion

The world has become a harbor for deaths and evil deeds. People have normalized robbery with violence as well as killing. It has become the part of the people (Hume, PG 100).

· The thesis statement will be restates in this part of the essay.

· The fictional essay aims at illustrating how the world can harbor evils people amidst good people without having any idea that they are.

· The question is what would you do if your personal secretary who over the years has become your best friend was a murderer and you only realized it after 3 years of working together?

Works Cited

Hock, Stephen. Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television. , 2020. Print. Pp 1-5

Hume, Kathryn. Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel. , 2011. Internet resource. Pp 100