{"id":319,"date":"2012-07-13T03:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T03:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2015-04-19T01:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T01:34:04","slug":"points-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/?page_id=319","title":{"rendered":"5. Essay Style and Format"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. Use present tense verbs to discuss the poem, including the speaker’s thoughts and actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the poem, Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” (l. 1)<\/p>\n

Miniver Cheevey loves the things of the past.<\/p>\n

2. Use past tense verbs to discuss history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muriel Rukeyser’s “Poem” was published in 1968.<\/p>\n

3. Use quotation “marks” for titles of poems and italics<\/em> for titles of books:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carl Sandburg’s “Killers” was published in his book Chicago Poems<\/em> (1916).<\/p>\n

4. Try different forms for your title:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Theme of Interracial Love in Claude McKay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Barrier\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Sylvia Plath\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revision of the Cinderella Story<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Claude McKay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Message of Courage in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If We Must Die\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Pound\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Use of Imagist Techniques in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The River-Merchant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wife\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

5. Quoting from Sources:<\/strong> You can quote briefly from critical sources online or from books and essays that you find in your research. Put “quotation marks” around copied words. Introduce the quotation with a special phrase:<\/p>\n

According to Helen Vender, Stevens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 poems usually contain \u00e2\u20ac\u0153harsh and unpalatable experiences [that are] revealed only gradually through his intense stylization\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Vendler)<\/p>\n

You can add words in [square brackets] to help make your quotation fit smoothly into your sentence. Make sure to include your citation at the end in (brackets). Full details should be included in your Works Cited page.<\/p>\n

6. When to Quote from Sources:<\/strong> You should quote critical sources to support your views. For example, a point made in an online essay about the poem can be used to support your argument. You can also use a critical sources for purpose of disagreeing. Such quotations can be written in the introduction briefly or in the body of the essay.<\/p>\n

Your thesis statement should never be a quotation from a source.<\/p>\n

Avoid many long quotations in your essay.<\/p>\n

7. Plagiarism<\/strong> is using ideas or copying words directly from sources without citation. Essays with plagiarized material will receive 0 (and a failing grade in the course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See this page with Japanese pop-up notes (\u00e7\u00bf\u00bb\u00e8\u00a8\u00b3) 1. Use present tense verbs to discuss the poem, including the speaker’s thoughts and actions. In the poem, Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” (l. 1) Miniver Cheevey loves the things of the past. 2. Use past tense verbs to discuss history. Muriel Rukeyser’s “Poem”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chukyoeibei.org\/uslh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}