GOOD COPY REQUIREMENTS – 1ST MAJOR ESSAY Bleich



GOOD COPY REQUIREMENTS: 2nd MAJOR ESSAY Bleich

1) Please remember, you are proving one thing, and only one thing: that the author truly is implying a particular theme, the one single theme you mention in your assertion. It may help you to think of an analogy. In science, after a hypothesis is developed, there is an experiment – and then a write-up – both seeking to prove the truth of one single claim. When writing a thesis-based paper in English, you are similarly proving just one thing, whatever you have claimed in your thesis statement.

2) Remember, before each quote from the literature, you need an introduction, explaining exactly what’s happening in the story during that scene, who’s speaking, who’s listening, and how each of those characters is feeling.

3) Also remember, after each quote from the literature, you need to explain FOUR THINGS:

A) In simple, plain English, exactly what the quoted words mean(unless their meaning is very simple and clear),

B) Exactly how those words are truly an instance of internal conflict (or whatever literary element is your focus for this paper),

C) An explanation of the implied theme (repeating the theme you stated in your thesis, but with completely different wording), and

D) How you can tell, for real, that the author, by using the particular words you just quoted, truly is implying that theme.

4) Please keep in mind, as you start your anticipatory rebuttal paragraph, that it needs to deal with the author’s thematic ideas and it must include the author’s name. The point of that paragraph is to prove that anyone – who disagrees with your interpretation of the author’s theme – is wrong. The goal of anticipatory rebuttal – by disproving an expected disagreement – is to help prove that your assertion really is correct. To see a good example of how to start this paragraph, please refer to the file on the Poly web site entitled, “Good and Bad Anticipatory Rebuttal.”

5) The 6 required quotes from Macbeth should be from different parts of the play, but there are no exact requirements. Parenthetical references for Shakespeare must look like this: (3.5.147-48).

6) Two quotes are required from the literary critic. Each of these quotes can be used in any paragraph where the quote will help to prove your point (but no quotes go in the introductory or concluding paragraphs).

7) On your good copy, there will be no labels, no highlighting, and no red underlining.

8) The good, typed copy of your major essay counts as 30% of your quarter grade. For it to be accepted, you must also submit a complete critique – properly done – and a fully-revised rough copy.

9) For each day of lateness, 10 points will be deducted. Neither technical problems nor absence is acceptable as an excuse for lateness. If absent, you may avoid the lateness penalty by sending it to school (on time) with a family member or another student, or by mailing the paper to Mr. Bleich here at Poly – 1400 W. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21209 – and it will count as if submitted on the date after the postmark (since you can send it, any time up until midnight, on the night before it’s due, from the main post office).

9) On the rough copy, All revisions must be done by hand, in red ink – using our 4 revision tools – directly on the rough copy. Mr. Bleich will not compare your rough copy and your good copy to figure out what revisions you have made. There’s no time for him to do that.

10) When making revisions, do not re-write any of the original words, if they are staying the same. Only write words that are new or changed (above a caret, or next to an asterisk). (See the model of how to revise a sentence.)

11) If you know you don’t have real revisions to every sentence of the rough copy, or if your critique is not complete, or if your critique is not done properly, Mr. Bleich recommends that you do not try to turn in your good copy. If you try, but it gets rejected, you will make more work for yourself, because your “good” copy will become another rough copy. You will be required to revise it (with red ink, by hand, directly on that copy) and to then print a new, improved good copy, meanwhile losing 10 points a day until it is all re-submitted properly!

12) SUMMARY OF Requirements for Acceptance of Good Copy:

• Rough copy with real revisions made to every sentence

• All revisions – but not corrections – highlighted with a highlighter

• Complete and acceptable critique (12 comments; each at least 2 sentences long, each mentioning a specific weakness in a specific sentence of the essay; each suggesting specific wording – in quotes – that can be used to solve the weakness; each pertaining to one of the 11 appropriate high-level issues; no comments about low-level issues like spelling, handwriting, verb tense, grammar, punctuation, or parenthetical documentation; no comments about a paragraph as a whole or about the essay as a whole)

• Typed good copy, double-spaced, Courier New font size 14 (same for headings), no italics

• 2 double spaces between paragraphs

[Good Copy Requirements – 2nd Major Essay 12-13]

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