This essay is a 3 part assignment. 

1. The rough draft. Due April 5th at midnight Central time.

2. The peer review. You have to review a peers paper and provide feedback. Due April 8th.

3. The last step is make corrections to the paper and submit/turn in on April 11.

Essay #1
Literary Analysis of Fiction

Due Dates

Feb 5 at NOON

Rough Draft

Feb 8

Peer Review

Feb 11 at MIDNIGHT

Draft #2 for feedback

Topic
Not plot summary
Thesis

Body
Proving
Use STAR Criteria
Quoting
Use Quoting Fiction Lecture

Unit 1: Fiction Module

Grammar and Punctuation
You are required to use spell-check and grammar-check and Grammarly at a bare minimum. Visit the Writing Center for more help.

More Assistance

This is how to use peer reviews and how to view your scores and my feedback.

You have all these resources – use them!

Plagiarism
You should then have a look at the Honesty and Plagiarism portion of the syllabus which reads:
Plagiarism is defined as submitting anything for credit in one course that has already been submitted for credit in another course, or copying any part of someone else’s intellectual work – their ideas and/or words – published or unpublished, including that of other students, and portraying it as one’s own. Proper quoting, using strict MLA formatting, is required, as described by the instructor. All students are required to read the material presented at: http://Troy.Troy.edu/writingcenter/research.html
Students must properly cite any quoted material. No term paper, business plan, term project, case analysis, or assignment may have more than 20% of its content quoted from another source. Students who need assistance in learning to paraphrase should ask the instructor for guidance and consult the links at the Troy Writing Center. This university employs plagiarism-detection software, through which all written student assignments are processed for comparison with material published in traditional sources (books, journals, magazines), on the internet (to include essays for sale), and papers turned in by students in the same and other classes in this and all previous terms. The penalty for plagiarism may range from zero credit on the assignment, to zero in the course, to expulsion from the university with appropriate notation in the student’s permanent file.
After that, you should also have a look at the Troy Handbook/Oracle (https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/student-resources/oracle.html) where this information is repeated beginning on page 49.

Another Location for “How To” Viewing
Originality Report
Grades

Use This!
MLA Format

Grading
Peer Review
Handing in the next draft
Portfolio grading

Policies and Procedures Module
Each Essay Has a Rubric

Last 2

First Last

ENGL ####

Date or Semester

Farmer

Title

This is where you will start your essay. In order to fill space and show you more paragraphs, I will include the text of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. The novel begins in a really rudimentary, almost amusing, way, “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born.” Do you see how I had some context to my quote? I didn’t just “drop” the quote on the page. Before giving you the quote, I let you know that I found the text rudimentary and amusing.

What’s more, do you see that there is a comma before the quote? Do you see that the period goes inside of the quotation marks at the end of the quote? Now, if you had a citation, that would be different. I’ll show you that in a minute. Now, I will point out the spacing and indenting. Do you see how all of the spaces between all of the lines and paragraphs, including my header and title, are entirely uniform?

Here, let me show you how to do a longer quote from the same novel. This will show you that even with a “block quote” all of the spaces are uniform. Note that here I do not need quotation marks, the fact that the quote is indented signals it as quoted material But be aware. A block quote is only and always used for quotes that take up three or more lines of text. It will look like this:

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

When I go back to my original writing, I go back to the left margin, even if it is just for one line.

You will not see this, because I have fixed it. However, when I originally typed this example, the block quote that begins, “In consideration,” jumped to the top of page two (rather than appearing at the bottom of page one) because of a feature called “widow/orphan control.” This feature keeps single lines from appearing at the beginning or end of your pages. Unfortunately, it also messes up your margins. You will go to the Home tab and pull down the paragraph dialogue box and click the Line and Page Breaks tab. Here you will untick the widow/orphan control box.

Here’s an example of punctuating a quote with a citation, “I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result” (Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. New York :Modern Library, 2000). Now the period goes outside the citation rather than inside the quotation marks. This is because the citation is part of the sentence.

Finally, do you see how my page number appears? It has been typed (and formatted) in the header feature. I did not, however, type the header with my name and course information in the header field. Just my name and page number. The page number has been generated by using the page number feature on the Insert tab.

Feel free to download this document and use it as a template for writing your essays so that your papers are always formatted correctly.