Comparative essay guidelines (final paper)

Here is a link that I think overall is helpful for your final essay:
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/ataormina/eng256/support/litcompare.htm

Aditions:
1) you can either compare two short stories or one short story and an artistic object pertaining to other media (visual, musical). If you have repeated in your literary review the story you chose for your oral presentation, you cannot work on that short story again.

2) focus on grounds of comparison/contrast: don't forget this is a literature class.  As such try to substantiate at least one of your grounds for comparison with a "reading" of a short excerpt or image detail. Close, careful and critical reading is essential in order for you to develop nuanced readings and interpretations, to bring out similarities and differences between the texts (even if visual or musical texts) you are comparing, and to demonstrate your awareness of the forms, patterns, textures, resonances and ideological purposes of language. This might not be easy to do at length in a short essay as this, and you will have higher-order elements to analyse (e. g. plot, character, context) but try just once: for example: does a movie add or omit lines to a crucial dialogue? in which way does this change tone, register, rhetoric strategies?
 
3) this is a short essay (6-8 pages) 

4) your essay should be presented double-spaced, size-12 letter, and your name should be clearly identified, along with title of essay, class and teacher, 

5) comply to more detailed style / formal instructions (preference for MLA);  it is very important to play heed on how to reference bibliography. This is one of the reasons why you are required to present a plan of your work and an annotated bibliography beforehand (due November 21)

 6) Final paper due December 8

 

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