Week 4 Response Paper

After reviewing this weeks resource on style and tone, consider one text from either Week 3 or Week 4 to discuss. If you had to name the authors style, what would you call it and why? Give examples from the text in your discussion. Show how the style and/or tone (as well as related terms like point-of-view or word choice) helps to inform the meaning of the story as a whole.

The options for text are “Mother”, “Hands,” or “Adventure” by Sherwood Anderson from week 3. Week 4 texts were “The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allen Poe, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway, and “Why I live at the P.O” by Eudora Welty.

Requirements:

MLA Style and Word Count

• Your analysis should contain at least ONE direct quote and ONE paraphrase from the text (with MLA in-text citations as necessary), and your paper should include an MLA-formatted Works Cited page.
• Remember to observe MLA formatting: double-space your paper, with headings and a centered title on page 1; use 12 Times New Roman font.
• Your finished response paper should be 1000 words or more.

Structure

• The introduction paragraph should include a clear thesis statement. It should also clearly identify the title of the literature you’ve chosen to write about, as well as the author’s name.
• Each body paragraph should have a clear topic sentence that relates back to the thesis. The information in each paragraph should relate to the topic sentence.
• The conclusion paragraph should restate the thesis, summarize the main points of your argument, and offer some closing context or insight regarding your topic.

Mechanics, Grammar, and Punctuation

• All written assignments should be mechanically and grammatically correct, with proper punctuation.

Grading:

• This assignment will be graded using the Response Paper Rubric that can be found in the Rubrics link in class.