ENL 121 Checklist for Major Paper 1
Due: _______________

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

      Write a 500-750 word analysis of one of the stories listed below, preferably from a moral/ethical perspective.In your analysis, use three of the critical concepts we have been studying. (Be sure you examine the grading sheets for this paper.) If you use anything other than the text of the work you are writing about and your own head, document sources using the new MLA format. Include in your envelope print-outs or xeroxes of any sources that you use. Otherwise, you will be flirting with plagiarism and with failing the course.

You may also choose from the following, which are not available on the web: 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.) Brainstorm, on paper.

       When you have found a story that you think you might like to write about, take two or three pieces of paper. At the top of one, write "Conflicts." About a third of the way down the page, write "Setting." Two thirds of the way down, write "Symbols." Do the same on the back of the sheet, but write "Characterization," "Plot," Point-of-View (Narrator)." On another sheet, write "Irony" and "Tone." Based on what you have learned about these concepts in class, go back and make notes about each concept as it relates to your story -- for example, what "conflicts" are in your chosen story? Fill in as much as you can for each of the eight concepts. Then study your notes, and find the three of the concepts that you can best use to support a statement of the theme of the work.
     I would prefer that you NOT use sources other than your own mind, but remember that if you do go to web sites or any critical articles, you need to include a "Works Consulted" list at the end of your paper and correctly cite any material that you use. Failure to do so may result in plagiarism and automatic failure in the course.
_____ 4.) On paper, make a tentative thesis and outline. [If you want better than a C for a grade,
            don't forget that you need subdivisions in one of the major sections of your paper.]
_____ 5.) Write a draft of the paper.
_____ 6.) Revise the draft at least once. (Suggestion: Use the grading sheets, and grade your paper
                for Audience, Theis, Organization, and Details as you revise.)
_____ 7.) Use the MLA format for your paper. (See the "General Directions for Major Papers.")
_____ 8.) Edit the draft (and grade your paper for Style).
_____ 9.)  If you have not already done so, make a paragraph outline.
_____ 10.) If you have not already done so, make an electronic copy to be handed in. Put the
            electronic copy of your outline in the same file as the paper itself, after the paper. Name that
            file by using the first seven letters of your last name, plus your first initial, plus "MP1."
            (VavraEMP1).
_____11.) Put the finished copy, electronic copy, your log, storming, drafts, copies of sources you
            used, grading sheets and everything else you wrote in doing the paper into your
            envelope. (Mark the final copies "Final" 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