Essay on Jesmyn Wards Men We Reaped
For this essay, you will choose one of the prompts below and write a prompt-specific academic essay supporting your claim. Each prompt is going to require you to use supportive evidence from Men We Reaped.
Prompts:
1) Describe two to three dilemmas regarding gender roles in her community that Ward addresses in her memoir, and explain what questions Ward addresses through this discussion of gender roles.
2) Describe two or three the dilemmas, conundrums, or conflicts Ward explores regarding racism in her memoir.
3) Describe how Ward uses two or three of the following literary elements to support a common theme/main idea of her memoir: epiphany, tone, dialect, anecdote, dilemma, conundrum, or irony. All of the examples of literary elements discussed must be used to develop the same theme.
Getting Started:
Review the prompts closely to see which one interest you the most, and review the text and your annotations to determine which prompt you think you would have sufficient discussion to support.
After choosing a prompt, complete the brainstorming activity located in the Writing Project Two folder.
Develop a thesis statement. Thesis Statement information is under Week Six of Coursework.
Develop a formal outline that states your thesis statement at the top and organizes your ideas (body paragraphs) effectively, including cited, textual support from the memoir. There is a document describing outlining and an outline template linked in the Writing Project Two folder.
More Essay Requirements:
Essay must be a minimum of five full pages and no more than seven full pages in length (not including the Works Cited page in the page count)
Essay must meet MLA format requirements:
This means that your essay must be typed in black, size 12, Times New Roman font, double-spaced, and contain 1-inch margins on all sides
Your name, the essay due date, the instructors name, and the courses name and section number should be in the top left-hand corner on the first page only
Your last name and the essay page number should be in the top right-hand corner of each page
Your essay must include a creative yet fitting title that is not in quotation marks, italicized, underlined, or in bold and is typed in black, 12 point, Times New Roman font
Essay must include in-text citations and a Works Cited page in MLA format
(Refer to Purdue OWL linked under Student Help Resources to view MLA guidelines)
Develop an attention grabber in the introduction and contextualize the memoir (authors name, title of the text, year of publication, and a brief summary of the main ideas of the memoir)
Create a prompt-specific thesis statement at the end of the introduction
Organize your essay effectively following the layout of your thesis statement
Develop transition sentences between paragraphs and ideas
Provide topic sentences for all body paragraphs that state the topic (relevant to the thesis) of that paragraph clearly
Provide sound reasoning and ideas
Provide clear and suitable examples from the text for support and explain how those examples support your ideas
Include quotes, paraphrases, and connections cited in MLA from the text (refer to the MLA guidelines noted in Purdue OWL)
Provide a conclusion that restates your thesis statement and the key points of your
essay and leaves your reader with a new idea to consider in regards to your topic
Use correct sentence structure and correct word usage/grammar/spelling/punctuation
Use formal writing that is clear and concise
Do not use first person (I, me, my, we, us, our) or second person (you, your) pronouns outside of quotes or rhetorical questions throughout the essay
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