For this assignment, I want you to read your selected author (Haggard or Conan Doyle) within the framework of the Victorian Imagination.  Before embarking on this assignment, you should review your notes, the presentations in class, and attend to the comments that surface during discussion.  You should also be familiar with the introduction to the Victorian Period. The essay should offer a critical reading of Rider Haggard's She or of Conan Doyle's short stories. You should present an argument and incorporate criticism; do not merely recount the plot. I would like you to revise your work based on peer review in order to advance a sophisticated argument.
Requirements:
1. Submit a one page abstract of your essay idea on Monday February 7
2. Write a polished, 8 page typed draft and compose the works cited for Monday, February 14
Make three copies for the Peer Critique.
3. Submit 8-10 essay with drafts and peer critiques on Wednesday February 16
Please note: No extensions. No late work will be accepted.
4. 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 ("Haggard presents Leo as Kallikrates's double..")
     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

5. Provide a meaningful title
6. 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:
          Your Name
          The Date
          Dr. Ramirez, California State University
          The Victorian Imagination
          Title of the Essay
It is essential that you make constant back-ups of your work.
Scholastic Responsibility:  Use A Writer's Reference or another guide that tells you how to cite with the Modern Language Style of documentation. You should document your texts with "author's last name  page" citations (Haggard 46).  Be sure to properly quote and paraphrase.