immigrants and the immigrant experiences essay
I WILL INCLUDE ESSAY EXAMPLE PLEASE CHECK IT OUT AND READ COMMENTS..
Do Not Include the story’s title and author in the introduction or mention the other source in the intro at all.
Total length is approximately 2 1/2-3 pages in length. Double space.
#12 font Times New Roman.
Works Cited page –include the story and the scholarly article.
Do not summarize the story ( if you use a story), as I do not need to read summary but only analysis and interpretation.
Pay attention to format and MLA parenthetical citation and documentation.
Review the student’s essay in the reading and pay attention to the errors in the first draft and how they were revised in the 2nd draft.
Pay attention to the format
Do not retell the story.
Give detailed attention to the thesis statement you choose and ensure your discussion revolves around supporting and exemplifying that thesis.
Do not begin paragraphs or sentences with quotes.
Think about Controversy and Problems. Social Class, Gender Roles, Social Economic Oppression, Religion, The Crisis Impaired Individual, Race and Ethnicity.You can explore topics that include CONTROVERSIAL SOCIAL ISSUES – maybe you want to look at IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN TIME or MOMENTS OF CRISIS – public or personal
You will start by considering issues you see in short stories, poems, & plays and consider how writers explore these controversial topics n You’ll read short stories, poems, & plays from Delbanco & Cheuse’s Literature: Craft & Voice n You’ll find compelling quotes that support and INSPIRE (gives an emotional punch) to your analysis of an issue you feel compelled to explore, research, and write about
You might want to look at “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen– Google the story- if you are interested in immigrants and the immigrant experiences at it relates to culture and cultural conflict.
You will need to decide if you want to use a disciplinary perspective to analyze from or at least a perspective that will work with the issue you want to explore:
Consider the following
You do not need to state the perspective in your essay as the perspective becomes apparent from the way the essay is formed and shaped and explores the issue you select.
Consider:
Once you select the issue to write about and then select your disciplinary perspective (if you use this approach) to analyze from and then which issue your want to explore, you then need to carefully follow the materials in Unit two that explain how to research a resource to use in your essay.
You will write your essay on an issue that you see in one of the pieces we read or an issue that you find interesting and worthy of discussion and exploration and that you can support with the sources you find.Do not over emphasize your discussion around the piece you use from the textbook or any other text we read (if you use one piece from the readings).The focus of the essay you compose is the issue and you will not need more than one paragraph that quotes from the piece you use from the class readings).The focus of your essay will be on the issue and use the source you find for the majority of the body paragraphs.You should have at least one quote in each body paragraph.The ratio you are looking for is 1 body paragraph using the piece from the course readings and 2-3 body paragraphs using the source that you find from your research.If you decide that the issue you want to explore is not that easy to actually explore using one of sources from the class readings, you can always research and locate two sources from outside the course readings and use an additional outside source instead of one source from the course readings.
Just don’t forget you need two sources in the essay.
Checklist: Include:
Author(s) and title(s) of any material (story, play or poem) you use from course readings on the works cited
Material you use from the source you find cited in the essay and listed on the Works
Cited.
Any pertinent background information in the introduction before the thesis
Scholarly article for perspective on the story.
Thesis- must state a position and topic
Clear topic sentences
Supporting details
Quotes from the work to support your position once you have clearly established your position- – do not start sentences or paragraphs with quotes-integrate quotes
smoothly into your body paragraphs and quotes from the scholarly article to support your disciplinary perspective.
Avoid using quotes in the introduction or the conclusion
Make sure you use correct parenthetical citation in the places where you use quotes
Do not paraphrase-quoting is more effective
Block quote long quotes
Offer some explanation and discussion after quoting the work and the scholarly article.
Use transitions and conjunctive adverbs so you can create complex sentences and avoid writing short choppy sentences
Remember: effective analysis will clearly illustrate relationships between your ideas
Create transitional sentences between your body paragraphs
Do not use, I, me, you, us- write in 3rd person.
