English Lit

Help with essay. See attached pdf.

Examineautobiographical data on the author and discuss, in detail, the relevance of that

information to the literary work(s) you are studying. You might look at two or three pieces of
the author’s work and apply this autobiographical focus to it. Understand, you should not write
a biography or a book report on the author; instead, you are to discuss the relevance of the
autobiographical information to a new understanding of the literary text or texts.

Choose one author listed below

Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, “Good Country People”.

John Updike: “Summer”, “A & P”.

William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”, “Barn Burning”.

 Essay should be based on literature. It should be an explication/analysis, critical argument

paper. The essay should have a point or points to make about the focus/topic you’ve

chosen, and it should follow the format of an argument (main proposition, claims,

evidence and reasoning).

 Must be written as a critical argument paper, not a “report.”

 It should not be a biography of an author, or a fact-based report; instead, the crucial thing is to

apply all the information you discover to analyzing the literature itself.

 Length should be 6-8 full, typed pages minimum.

 Double-spaced; 1 inch margins all around. Calibri (12) or Times New Roman (12) font.

 The research paper should have five sources listed in a Works Cited page using MLA

format.

 Sources can be print sources (books, articles, magazines, newspapers, poems, reports,

etc.).

 Due 11/27/13 – midnight EST