Outline

# nclude a Works Cited page. Your primary source (story) is a work from an anthology. Use that form.

# Use MLA format and type in Microsoft Word.

# Submit it by the due date specified on your calendar. Simply follow the instructions in WebCt for uploading. Go through the Essay module. DO NOT attach it to an email. If you miss the deadline, you must contact me for permission to submit late. I will require a very good reason.

# Include an appropriate, original title.

# Textual Support required: Be sure to use quotations from the work(s) themselves to support your analysis / interpretation of the subjects(s).

# Outside sources ARE NOT to be used in this essay. A “close reading” essay means that you are to form your own interpretation of the material.

# See your Writing about Literature booklet if you need help. The new 6th edition of A Writer’s Reference by Diana Hacker has a section about writing about literature in the back of it.

# Remember that you must use MLA conventions for the in-text citations and the Works Cited page. Short stories use page numbers and signal phrases for the author’s name. Online sources for stories will not have page numbers and so are not required. See MLA rules.

# Remember to use third person and present tense when appropriate, do not use second person unless it is a part of directly quoted material, etc.

# Also, please do not quote from