Tonight, we'll brush up on some grammar rules, perhaps delving into another page of "The Seven Deadly Sins" of writing. I will hand back Essay #2 and assign Essay #3 (see below). We will talk more about analyzing literature, and I will briefly discuss "Neon Tetra" by Eric Puchner.
Essay #3 will be due Nov. 18 -- in two weeks. Note there will be no class on Nov. 11, which is Veterans Day.
Instructions for Essay #3:
Write a two-to-three-page analysis of "Neon Tetra" by Eric Puchner or "Us and Them" by David Sedaris. (If you're feeling ambitious, you may analyze a different story by Puchner or a different essay by Sedaris.) Your analysis must have a clear thesis that makes a comment on the piece of writing you choose. You must identify and discuss one or more the themes of the piece and discuss the writer's use of language (dialogue, description, etc.)
Furthermore, your essay must acknowledge and discuss another writer's published analysis/opinion of your subject writer. (Hint: Both the Puchner story and the Sedaris essay were published in collections that were critically reviewed, and those reviews can be found online.) You must use in-text citations to document the sources of any summaries, paraphrases or quotations of the other critic's writing. You need not cite references to the subject text, however. A "work cited" or "works cited" entry must be attached to the end of your essay. I will describe how this should look in class tonight.
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