Description
In this assignment, you will refine that thesis even further and develop your argument. You are required to incorporate your instructor’s feedback in your Final Paper and to take peer feedback into consideration.
In your paper,
- Create a detailed introduction that contains a thesis that offers a debatable claim based on one of the prompts on the list.
- Apply critical thought by analyzing the primary source you selected from the approved List of Literary Works. Avoid summary and personal reflection.
- Develop body paragraphs that contain clear topic sentences and examples that support the argument.
- Write a conclusion that reaffirms the thesis statement and includes a summary of the key ideas in essay.
- Apply your knowledge of literary elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt. Reference the list of literary elements found in Week Two of the course and discussion forums.
- Incorporate research from the primary and secondary sources.
I will send you my rough draft of the paper, so you could add to it and such.
Requirements for this essay:
The Literary Analysis
- Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student's name
- Course name and number
- Paper prompt #
- Instructor's name
- Date submitted
- Must use one or two primary sources and two secondary scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
- The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Eight Steps to Writing a Literary Analysis provides information regarding how to effectively begin working on this project.
- You may use the sample Literary Analysis as a reference, but do not re-use any information within this sample assignment.
- List of Writing Prompts
- List of Literary Works
- List of Literary Elements
- Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table
Resources for Writing Your Paper
- Format your essay according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center
- Separate Title Page: Must include a separate title page that lists the following: an original title, your name, date of submission, and the professor’s name.
- Double space: Double space the essay with one inch margins on the right and left and top and bottom.
- Separate References Page: At the end of your paper, include a separate references page that lists all sources utilized for and cited within your analysis.
- Proper Citations: All sources must be properly cited according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, both within the text of your paper and on the references page.
Explanation & Answer
Running head: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
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Introduction
It is always challenging bringing up teenagers in the society where people have become
socially immoral. The children are growing faster, knowing a lot of stuff about life that they
should not know at their age. With the daily changing of roles and empowerment from the
society, the children especially teenagers are gaining courage and becoming irresponsibly
immoral; failing to heed their parent’s wise pieces of advice. Perhaps it is the ever-changing
technology or increased laws over-protecting children from being punished or it could be food
that has made the children to develop and grow very fast and become sexually active at very
tender age. While many young girls become sexually active at a very tender age, the
irresponsible sexual behavior at this age is more than an innate behavior; it is influenced by the
environment, culture and family relationships. Connie is a good example since she physically
engaged in sexual behaviors at a young age.
Joyce Carol Oates in her story, "Where are you going, Where have you been?" presents
Connie to the readers; a fifteen-year old girl who has many boyfriends than girlfriends. Most of
the girls she has as friends are referred to as a mere pretense by the author because she loves
men/boys than girls. She is using girls to cover up just to dilute her being seen by men all the
time. However, it is clear that she does not like the company of girls.
Her sexual desire is stronger at a tender age of 15 and she cannot contr...
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