POV: Third Person
Format: MLA format
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Assignment Type: Argumentative (Avoid unnecessary summary. Avoid unnecessary paraphrasing)
Essay Form: Argumentative
Primary Source: “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston
Secondary Source: 2 – Student’s choice.
Topic: The topic of your essay is completely up to you. HOWEVER, in order to complete this essay you must do the following:
Read the primary source assigned.
Discuss the primary source assigned through the Discussion Forum in our module.
Take notes while you read the primary source, noting what you think about the elements presented, how the work is written, what stands out to you, what do you agree with, what do you disagree with, what do you question, what is your central argument, what is your supporting evidence, what SOC is your argument grounded in? Think of these things as you put in the preliminary work towards the structure and development of your wssay.
The goal of this assignment is to argue an important, odd, significant, profound, interesting, etc. idea directly from the literature. In order to figure out what you will argue, you must take notes during your reading. There is no way around that. You must annotate. You must read critically. You must connect your argument, in its most basic form, to a literary theory.
If you are struggling to “begin” take a look at this brief
PRIMARY SOURCE: “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston