Hey! You recently wrote a paper for me for my English class about the book “In Watermelon Sugar”. I have a follow up paper, and was wondering if you could help me with that.

Assignment Sheet for Paper #3

For Paper #2, you had two tasks. First, you had to make an argument as regards the reliability or
unreliability of the narrator of Richard Brautigan’s novel In Watermelon Sugar. Second, you had
to make an argument for whether iDEATH (the community in which he lives) is more utopian or
dystopian.

For Paper #3, you must enlist critical essays to strengthen the argument that you made in Paper
#2. These critical essays have been provided in this week’s Learning Module. Five have been
given; you must use three. Only these three sources are permitted—any other use of outside
sources will be regarded as plagiarism.

Which three essays should you use? Whichever three contain textual evidence and/or critical
remarks which will help you support, strengthen, and enlarge the points that you already made in
Paper #2.

NOTE: Be sparing in your use of these sources. Do NOT quote excessively. Quote words or
phrases, not whole sentences. Integrate the critical material into sentences of your own devising.

Length: Five paragraphs (each paragraph must be a minimum of 12 sentences).

Grammar and Punctuation: Edit for grammar and punctuation errors before submitting your
paper for a grade.

Style: Make statements that are clear, concise, and direct. Your sentences ought to abide by the
classic Subject-Verb-Object structure. Always avoid repetition. After writing your draft, go
through and eliminate all words that are unnecessarily repeated. Then go back and introduce
more variety of vocabulary, more descriptive detail.

Tone: You are analyzing a literary text and your audience is your college professor. Your tone,
therefore, should be academic and analytical throughout. Avoid self-references.

Format: MLA.

Citation: Be sure to supply in-text citations as well as a Work Cited page, not only for the novel
but for the three critical essays that you used. I have supplied the information you need in a
footnote at the bottom of the first page of each essay.

Paper Title: Make a two-part title, separating the parts with a colon. The first part of your title
should be: Paper 3. The second half of your title should be a short phrase of your own devising,
something which indicates research has been employed.

Submission: Post your paper as a WORD doc attachment in the folder of the menu item titled:
Paper 3.

Deadline: Saturday, Dec. 19 at 11:59 p.m. You may submit your paper earlier, but not later.