YOUR FINAL PAPER REQUIRES THAT YOU
- Read three short stories written by Flannery O’Connor: they include “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” and “Revelation.”
- Identify a common theme that O’Connor includes in her stories based on your reading of these three stories.
- Include research and use a minimum of two sources to help you develop your discussion of this theme. This research must come from credible, authoritative sources found by using books and articles you can locate in data bases at the Finch Library. Do not use web sites, wikis, or blog posts, or any sources you can get from a Google or Yahoo search for this paper. Academic essays require sources that come from academic data bases.
- Have a minimum of five (5) sources for this paper—three of them will be the short stories.
- Cite all sources both in the body of the text and on a Works Cited page, using the MLA documentation style.
- Write a coherent, well-developed 4-5 page (minimum of 1000 words) paper that identifies, examines, discusses , and offers ample examples to support the theme you find in the three assigned stories (This page count does not include your Works Cited page.)
- Format your paper as follows:
- double space
- 11-12 point font
- 1-inch margins on all sides
For help with this essay, you should refer to the following resources:
- Academic Essay and Structure: http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/academicessaystructures.pdf
- Thesis Sentence: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/thesis-statements/
- Writing Good Paragraphs: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Paragraphing.html
- Integrating Quotations from a Literary Text into a Literary Analysis Paper: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Integrating_Quotes.pdf
- MLA Citations (in text): http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocMLACitation_Format.html
- MLA Citations (Works Cited ): edu/Handbook/DocMLAWorksCited.html”>http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocMLAWorksCited.html
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