ROUGH DRAFT REQUIREMENTS



ROUGH DRAFT REQUIREMENTS (FORMAT)

Your rough draft must:

← Be typed, 12 font, times new roman, double-spaced

← Follow the correct heading format: Your Name, Mrs. Morgan, British Literature, Date, and Title centered on the fifth line

← Have a header (your last name & pg #) in the upper right hand corner that is in Times New Roman, font size 12, right justified, and a ½ inch from the top of the page. See example

ROUGH DRAFT REQUIREMENTS (CONTENT)

Your draft should be the six-eight (6-8 bottom of the page) pages of your paper with:

← An Introduction that does not mention the author/title in the first two lines, but leads up to and ends with your thesis statement.

← A thesis statement that has the following information in the following order:

o Author’s name & Title of Work, which style(s) have been utilized, which theme(s) will be discussed, a well-developed argument about the connection between the style and the theme

← 7-8 body paragraphs about the style elements and theme from the thesis. Body paragraphs should be organized to follow the order of style elements and theme from the thesis.

← All body paragraphs should be documented at least 3 times a paragraph from at least 2 different sources. If you do not document your rough draft, I will not accept it because it is plagiarized. The book should be used in EVERY paragraph. Nine sources that have been used in the paper should be on the Works Cited and every source on the Works Cited should have been used in the paper.

← Each paragraph should be set up like a CSET in which you:

o Transition/make a claim (argument) in your own words that follows the organization of your thesis statement and uses style and theme language; for example characterization. Set-up and provide evidence ( ). Tie-in/explain this evidence in your own words. Set-up and provide more evidence ( ). Tie-in/explain this evidence in your own words. Set-up and provide last evidence ( ). Tie-in/explain this evidence in your own words. Tie-in and explain how all evidence/documents/tie-ins from paragraph are connected/related.

← Revised works cited – if you do not turn in a freshly printed works cited with the correct page numbering for your rough draft and your final – YOU ARE GUILTY OF PLAGIARISM! I will not read/grade your paper without a works cited and you have a zero until you turn in your rough draft/final with a revised works cited with nine (9) sources that have been used in your paper.

← Writing Conventions:

o No I, we, us, our, or you

o No contractions: can’t, didn’t, won’t, couldn’t, etc.

o Use good word choice and domain specific language (literary terms)

o Have good sentence structure and variety

An example first page of the paper is found on the back of this sheet.

John Smith (Your Name)

Mrs. Morgan (My Name)

British Literature (Class Title)

February 24, 2010 (Due Date of Paper)

The Political Message of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

A novel, like a movie, is a form of entertainment. However, some novels do a great deal more than entertain. Some pack a powerful political message. For example, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, created controversy from the moment it was published. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is another example of a novel with a powerful political message. It warned that exploitation of migrant workers would cause them to rise up as a group against their oppressors, the state and the wealthy landowners and that such an oppressive situation can result in a profound philosophical change in the people who experience it.

The Grapes of Wrath is an historical novel, “a summation of national experience at a given time” (Levant 93), so to understand the novel, one must understand the historical events on which it was based. The historical and economic experience that Steinbeck was reacting to was that of the migrants who left the Oklahoma Dust Bowl in the late 1930’s (“Dust Bowl” 3). In Oklahoma, storms blew away topsoil (Frazier 204), covered pastures, and suffocated livestock (Tannehil 7). At the time, the country was in the grip of a severe economic downturn called the Great Depression (“Great Depression” 2). Crop failure, added to already low crop prices “led to the foreclosure of many small farms and the subsequent homelessness of many farm families” (Frazier 204). Therefore, understanding the economic devastation of the Great Depression will help the reader understand the character’s adversities in the novel.

NOTICE THAT THERE ARE SIX (6) DIFFERENT DOCUMENTATIONS FROM FIVE (5) DIFFERENT SOURCES USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH!

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