Your assignment is to pick any passage from any text we have read or will read in this class, and that is in our textbook (or is one of the online texts that you can download with the code from your textbook), and write an informed commentary on it.
Your passage should be at least 30 lines of text but no more than 50 lines in length. Obviously, it should not start and stop arbitrarily -- e.g., not in mid-sentence. Do not use whole works. The purpose is to get you to study a relatively short passage in detail, and analyze it in detail.
Your commentary should draw upon at least five articles and/or books. These should all be scholarly, academic articles or books. These are known as "secondary sources".
You should find them using the MLA Bibliography, on line. If Sprague Library does not have the article (or book) you wish to use, you should request it through Inter-Library Loan.
Non-scholarly materials are not acceptable. The Bible, and the textbook we are using, may be put into your bibliography but they are not scholarly, secondary sources.
We will discuss in class the materials available to you.
The central part of your assignment is to know your passage very well. So you should start by choosing your passage, from among the Tales in our textbook.
Format: For in-text references and bibliography, follow the MLA format on the Purdue Online Writing Lab page. The links on the left-hand column will give you all the information you need. See the specific pages linked on the left-hand column: In-Text Citations; Formatting Quotations; Works Cited Page;
Do NOT use "Footnotes" or "Endnotes." Use the "in-text citations." Do NOT double-space.
On other formatting issues, just use the same format you have used all semester: Plain Text Only, blank line between paragraphs, no paragraph longer than 4 sentences (and usually only 3 sentences) long.
Due date: Friday, December 13, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
Last Day of our Class: Thursday, December 12, 2024.