Authors not only create memorable characters and plots to tell their stories, but they also carefully guide their readers’ reactions to those characters and their actions. In a well-developed essay analyze and explore how Kafka or Dickens uses diction and imagery to build narrative tone and consequently evokes specific responses from the reader.
Tips to success:
Focus on only one of the novellas. Focusing on both Metamorphosis and A Christmas Carol will immediately result in a REDO grade (no points). If you want to use A Christmas Carol, you must complete reading it in time to proceed through the IWA process.
Do not simply recount the plot or attributes of the characters. You must specify what tone(s) the narrators use and what reaction(s)—mood(s)—they produce in a hypothetical, typical reader. Extensive lack of focus on diction and imagery will result in a REDO grade (no points), not a REWRITE (70 points).
The earlier you turn in a draft that you expect to earn an 85 (only revision is needed) the more likely you are to eventually receive an 85 (your idea of what is revision-only and my idea of what is revision-only may differ) or 100 (because you’ve made the necessary revision, or you refined your essay on your own before you turned it in).
This will be the last time a70-point grade will be given on an IWA. Last year many students who had never bothered to rewrite an essay during the first semester had a very difficult time during the second semester when an 85 was required to avoid P.A. and/or IWA n.1.
This is also the last time IWAs may be turned in handwritten. Please see the note on the bonus in the next paragraph.
Paper should be about two-pages long, handwritten, or one-page long, typed, double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman or Garamond. Five bonus points will be awarded to properly typed essays.
Daily P.A. for non-/unsuccessful-submitters begins Friday, December 9, 2011
Drop-Dead Deadline: Friday, December 16, 2011.
IWA 3.1 will be assigned on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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