Checklist for Major Paper 1 Due: _______________

Audience: Your classmates (Assume that they have read the story.)

Write a 500-750 word analysis on one of the stories listed below. In your analysis, use at least three of the critical concepts we have been studying. (Be sure you examine the grading sheets for this paper.)

Note: It is my intention to put EVERYONE's paper on the net, identified by a random number, just as I have for the set of papers on foils in Hamlet. (The only difference will be that, if you have given me permission to publish and you earn an A or B on the essay, your name will also be used.)

Zora Hurston, "Sweat" (760-768); Alice Munro, "How I Met My Husband" (769-781); Virginia Woolf, "Lappin and Lapinova" (753-759); Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" (12-13); Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (579-585) You may, if you include a xerox of the story, also choose from the following, which are not in our textbook:

J.D. Salinger, "For Esme--With Love and Squalor"; John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums"; E.B. White, "The Door"; Anton Chekhov, "The Darling"; Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever" In preparing your paper, do the following : (Suggestion: Read all the instructions before starting.)

_____ 1.) Log all the time you spend, indicating the appropriate codes, on a Major Paper log.
_____ 2.) Read all the stories.
_____ 3.) On paper, make a tentative thesis and outline. (Suggestion: make outlines for two possible papers.)
_____ 4.) Write a draft of the paper.
_____ 5.) Revise the draft at least once.
_____ 6.) Give your essay a title. Do not underline or put quotation marks around your own title.
_____ 7.) Edit the draft.
_____ 8.) (Optional) Using the grading sheets, grade your paper as you revise it.
_____ 9.) Prepare two (2) typed, double-spaced, final copies to be handed in.
_____ 10.) Number the paragraphs in your essay. Next to each item in your outline, indicate
the number of the paragraph that corresponds to it.
_____11.) If you have not already done so, make a DOS compatible DISK version of your paper, preferably saved as either a Word or as an HTML document.
_____12.) Put the finished copies, your disk, your log, grading sheet and everything else you wrote
in doing the paper into your envelope. (Mark the final copies so that they are identifiable.)

Failure to follow these instructions will result in ten points being deducted from your final grade for the paper for each instruction not followed.
Estimated Average Time Required (including reading of stories) = 12 hours