Description
Essay for ENG 130: Research Essay
Source Material:
List of Literary Genres by the California Department of Education
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/rl/litrlgenres.asp
Background:
At this point, you have chosen a particular literary genre to discuss from this List of Literary Genres and have completed most of the research to support your essay focus.
In the previous unit, you wrote a prewrite outline. In this unit’s Research Essay, you will transition your prewrite into a 4-5 page essay that defends your thesis/focus.
The history of society, the spoken word, and the written word are all intertwined. So how did literature evolve into the multitude of various genres which are available to reading audiences today? For example, many of you have witnessed firsthand, the breakout of Anime cinematic writing/artistry as a genre of literature. But did you know, that it was conceived in Japan in the 1960’s as a response to the animated films of Walt Disney?
Prompt:
Choose a literary genre from the List of Literary Genres and create a 4-5 page essay on the inception, the evolution, and the current traits of your chosen genre.
You must include at least three researched sources that are valid and reliable to include in your essay.
Hint to success: You should add into your essay how society contributed to the creation of this genre, the various levels and offshoots of the genre as well as current examples.
Instructions:
Read through all of the instructions of this assignment.
Read all of the units’ resources that pertain to your genre.
Select one of the literary genres to write about.
Your audience for this essay are people who are familiar with this genre, but not its history.
You need to use the Library resources or other search engines to select and use at least threescholarly sources that will defend your focus/thesis. Your essay will have the following components:
An Introduction: see unit resources
A thesis at the end of the introduction that clearly states your focus on how your chosen genre has evolved.
Three supporting sections of the body that support your focus
Each section should research support. Each quote, paraphrase, or new information requires an in text citation.
A concluding paragraph: see unit resources.
Requirements:
Length and format: 4-5 pages.
The title page and reference page are also required, but they should not be factored into the 4-5 page length of the essay.
It should also be double spaced, written in Times New Roman, in 12 point font and with 1 inch margins. Essay should conform to APA formatting and citation style.
Use the third-person, objective voice, avoiding personal pronouns such as “I,” “you,” “we,” etc.
Please use the above sources and any outside sources you need to create a properly-formatted APA reference page.
Use APA format for in-text citations and references when using outside sources and textual evidence.
Please be cautious about plagiarism. Make sure to use internal citations for:
Direct quotes
Paraphrases
New information.
Not citing materials could lead to a zero on the assignment.
Be sure to read the rubric criteria by which your paper/project will be evaluated before you write, and again after you write.
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Running head: FABLE LITERARY GENRE
Fable Literary Genre
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FABLE LITERARY GENRE
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Introduction
Fables are short fictitious stories that usually have two to three animal characters who
possess human abilities. They usually can talk, think and have emotions. They usually also
have a moral lesson at the end. They, therefore, teach various lessons. When it comes to
literary genres, fables started being written around 550 BCE, they grew into an extremely
loved and evolved genre, and the biggest advantage for fables today is technology.
Background of Fables
The historically documented fables were written around 550 BCE by Aesop who was
a Greek slave. It is however believed that these fables existed even before the Greeks did.
They were in form of the Sumerian proverbs that were written 1500 BC. These proverbs had
the same characteristics as Aesop's fables. They were not wordy, had animal characters and
were clear and precise. They also began with a situation than a moral lesson at the end. So it
is therefore believed that Aesop's contribution was to pass these fables to a different audience
in Greece where he lived. There were 725 fables in the book entitled Aesop's Fables and
these fables were fictional stories intended to teach a lesson. They involved animals and
insects "in human-like situations (a belief known as animism)" (Horgan, 2014). These
animals are like foxes, elephants, monkeys, and insects like the grasshoppers.
To be able to use these animals repeatedly, he avoided giving them permanent
characteristics like the greedy hyena. In this way, the animals could play any role in the
fables. These animals also acted like human beings, they thought and acted on these thoughts.
Fables’ mode of transmission was by word of mouth. Through this process, as time went by
the words and at times meanings were changed. Story-tellers did this so that their stories
could suit their circumstances or so that they could pass their intended message. There were
also different levels of understanding fables. The first one was getting the literal meaning.
FABLE LITERARY GENRE
This basically understands what happens in the story. The seco...