Overview
    This course has introduced a critical and historical approach to literature.  For the final essay, I want you to take one nineteenth and twentieth century idea or concept from The Norton Anthology of English Literature and apply it to your reading of the text. Before embarking on this assignment, you should review your reading responses for analytical and compositional issues that have surfaced in your writing. Review your notes and the presentations in class.  This information will help you to generate ideas. I expect you to revise your work based on peer review in order to advance a sophisticated argument.
Read The Lost World as a transitional text between Victorian period and modernism.  Look at Conan Doyle's use of science as well as his attention to alienation.

Requirements:  Submissions that do not meet all of these requirements will be given a zero.
1. Write a polished, 4 page word processed draft; make two copies for the peer critique on 11/21
2. Make revisions according to Peer Critiques.
3. Submit 4-5 page final with drafts and peer critiques
No extensions. No late work will be accepted. If you want your essay returned, include a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Approach:
1. Focus on one historical idea or concept and apply it to one specific chapter or passage in the text.
(Don't try to do too much; rather, you should analyze fully the topic you do have).
2. Announce the thesis in your introduction, support the thesis in the body, and make sure you have a conclusion.
3. Once you have narrowed your topic, you should then elaborate on your interpretation. (So what.)
Assume that your reader knows the text intimately, especially the plot.  Jump into your analysis, in media res-- in the middle of things.
4. Begin your paper by announcing your thesis: "This essay addresses Conan Doyle's characterization of Challenger as a Columbus of Science in The Lost World."
5. Address the following compositional issues:

• Use active verbs (get rid of the "to be" verbs: is, are, was were, be being, etc.)
• Get rid of expletives (there are, there were, it is, it was, etc.)
• Use literary present tense ("Conan Doyle both questions and affirms the British confidence in its Empire.")
• Use transitions between paragraphs to connect ideas
• Use author, page citations (see MLA below).
• Include a works cited
• Limit quotes to one or two a page and integrate them (introduce them and respond to them)
• Avoid first person
• Find a unique approach

Format of Work: Word process your work with a computer.
Double space all hard copies; Use 12 point font, Times New Roman; 1 inch margins all around
(no padding with wide margins)
Use the Modern Language Association Style to document outside sources, including web pages.
Include the following information (with a title page, stapled on back please):

     Your Name
     The Date
     Dr. Ramirez, California State University
     English Literature III
     Title of the Essay

Scholastic Responsibility:  You should document your texts with "author's last name, page" citations: (Conan Doyle
 185 ).  When you use the Norton, be sure to properly quote and paraphrase, rather than plagiarize.  Use the Writer's Reference as a guide.  Plagiarizing (submitting work that is not your own or failing to document other people's analyses or using their words) or any other form of scholastic dishonesty (cheating) will result in an F in the assignment and possible failure of the course.  Plagiarism happens frequently when students are not prepared, when they are confused or rushed, or when they assume the professor will not know. But this is a poor assumption.

Put title here on first page
Introduction
State the thesis (one or two paragraphs)
This essay addresses the rhetoric of science in The Lost World. I argue that such rhetoric veils a growing feeling of discontent that characterized the modern period while invoking the confidence of the Victorians.
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Body
Three paragraphs on example 1
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Three paragraphs on example 2
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Conclusion
One to two paragraphs: Wrap up your ideas and make sure you have related your thesis to the concerns or the culture of the Victorian and/or Modern period.
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