QUESTIONHow is Hemingway (Big Two Headed River)

most representative of the Modernist viewpoint as you understand it? Explain. Some research on Modernism might be required here! Be sure to identify at least 3 ‘reasons’ or points to explore in the body of your paper.  You might examine 3 qualities of Modernism and discuss how those qualities appear in the poetry of ee cummings, for example. 

Checklist for Essays – Please Observe the Following                 
*There will be penalties for each of the items below that is missing or incorporated incorrectly into essays:

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Thesis Statement: Your essay must have a thesis statement. Since the reader is familiar with the story, summary is unnecessary. Rather than tell your reader what happened, tell him or her what specific point you are making about the story. See the attached Powerpoint “How to Write a Thesis Statement” for help with this.

Organization: Your essay must be well-organized, with an intro paragraph that includes a thesis statement, body paragraphs, each organized around a main focus along with examples from the text that relate back to and “prove” the thesis statement, and a conclusion. See the attached handout “How to Write an Essay” for help with this.

Format your essay according to MLA style guidelines.

*There is no cover page in MLA formatting, just the standard 4-line heading on page one, a title centered at the top, and double-spacing consistently throughout. See a sample here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/

*Use Italics for titles of longer works like novels and films and use “quotation marks” for titles of shorter works like poems, short stories and essays.

*Write your essay in third person objective voice. This means avoiding use of first person (I, we, me, us) and second person (you). This is standard practice for academic, college-level writing that lends more credibility to your writing.

After first introducing an author, such as Robert Frost, refer to him or her by last name only (Frost) in all subsequent uses of the name throughout your essay.

*Take great care to avoid plagiarism by citing all information included in your essay that is not considered common knowledge to the general public. It is best to use a signal phrase that names your source up front and then include a direct quote that shows exactly which words and phrasing is borrowed (for example, “According to Jane Jones, “and then add a direct quote”, followed by a citation (Jones 23).

When citing information from one of our course readings in your essay, cite the author of the literary selection and not Perkins, who is the editor of the text book, the one who compiled the stories together into this collection of readings.

*A sample works cited entry:
Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues.” American Literature from the Civil War to the Present. Ed. Perkins. 155-176. McGraw – Hill Learning Solutions, 2014. Vital Book File.

Turnitin.com – The 80/20% Rule
When you submit your essay for grading, it is automatically submitted to Turnitin.com, which generates a similarity report showing all of the borrowed information included in your essay. In addition to needing citations for all borrowed information included, students should also aim for an 80/20% split, with 80% of the words and ideas being their own and 20% coming from direct quotes from the literature or secondary sources writing about the story. Having a similarity report that goes much above 20% is considered more of a cut and paste job rather than a critical essay and will reflect in the grade earned.
 

Consult the Purdue Online Writing Lab for all your MLA formatting questions: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

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