Prepare for the next version of the Fail-Proof Essay. Be sure to carefully read the feedback you receive from your peers and from me. Make decisions about what changes are necessary to make the essay easily understandable for any reader.
After working through the film several times and revising the writing you've done about it, it's time to submit your Fail-Safe Essay including research. This is a new version, inclusive of selected research via our Library Guide. Choose an issue in the film, a variety of techniques, or analysis of characters -- all are good examples of what to write. You do not have to maintain the approach previously taken, but it does simplify your effort --
MINIMUM 500 words, must meet ALL MLA manuscript concerns as best you can -- Be sure that the manuscript matches the sample essay (manuscript design). You need a heading (NOT IN THE HEADER), a title (one that makes your reader enthusiastic about reading your essay) and citations as exemplified in the MLA documents. I've highly recommended between 3 and 4 research sources, including the script.
note: DOUBLE CHECK ALL MLA TECHNIQUES BY ACCESSING THE GUIDES.
Technical Lesson MLA manuscript
REMINDERS: How to Write Critically About Film
See the emailed 'handouts' [which contain simple coaching on thesis statements, and several examples] as well as the last six items in the Getting Started! module. The following are provided as a courtesy:
titles.pdf commas.pdf Conclusions.pdf
SAC Library Lone Star LibGuide
Important scholarly journals delivered as high quality page images and articles downloads are in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to current year depending on each journal's publisher. Subjects include: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics.
Historical (primary source) documents, reference articles, and journals covering periods in U.S. history from precolonial times to the present. Includes citations for history journals from the Arts and Humanities.
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