ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE TENTH EDITION VOLUME 1 GEROGE MCMICHAEL AND JAMES S . LEONARD

for this essay you can pick any author work just pick one the page numbers are with them. you need to source my book for one of the sources and need a annotated works cited page. I will leave a example on the bottom of page.

My book is : ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE TENTH EDITION VOLUME 1 GEROGE MCMICHAEL AND JAMES S . LEONARD

Romanticism Unit Writing Project

Format: Double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font.

Purpose and Guidelines: The purpose of this writing project involves research and investigation into one of the author and his or her pieces we will aim to cover during the final unit of this course.

Your choices of authors or works include the following:

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” pgs. 887 – 889

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” pgs. 891 – 903

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” pgs. 994 – 1010

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown pgs. 1069 – 1079

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin pgs. 1883 – 1901

bear in mind that we may not cover every one of these works in class to the depth you wish. Also bear in mind that some of these choices are both broad and abbreviated versions of an entire piece (particularly Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin). Regarding the Whitman and Dickinson options, please see me about any particular poems you wish to cover.

The purpose of this paper is to immerse yourself into both an interpretation and a conversation about the author and the respective piece(s). You will need to do some research and find some commentary about your topic. The MVCC Library EBSCO database is the best place to start. You will need to include a Works Cited page and include one – two secondary sources (the primary source being the work itself) to go along with your insights. Please do not use more than two secondary sources; by going over that limit you risk limiting time for your own insights.

With this being a major project, you will be expected to follow MLA guidelines with regards to citation, Works Cited page, and form. The rubric is as follows:

Form (Grammar, Syntax, Citations): 50 points

Content (Your insights, commentary, and

responses to criticism): 150 points

Consulting the “writing criteria” found in pgs. 7 – 8 of your syllabus would also be a good idea.

In terms of “how” you should approach this assignment, please read the “Entering the Conversations about Literature” chapter from They Say I Say (supplemental handout). That provides some sound insights on how you can “enter” a conversation about your selected work(s) and proceed.

Writing Project Penalties

You will be penalized on the following by failing to adhere to these guidelines as part of the assignment:

3. If the second person (“you”) is used in this paper you will be penalized.

4. Late papers will not be accepted.

5. bold the thesis statement in your essay. Your thesis statement should be 1 or 2 sentences but no more. You will be penalized ten points if your thesis statement is not in bold.

Romanticist Writing Project Amendment (Summer 2015)

Whether you implement one or more sources for this project, one of these entries must be accompanied by a descriptive evaluation (i.e. be “annotated”). An annotation is an analytic summary of the claims of the author. Your annotated source should convey with accuracy as much of the voice and agenda of the author as possible. Also, be conscious of the other two components to annotations—an evaluation of the source and its usefulness to your project. There may be brief quotations: short excerpts that convey the author’s most important concepts and claims.

Format: MLA (All entries should be alphabetized). The annotation should contain three paragraphs with the following breakdown: summary, evaluation, the source’s use towards your research paper. Please consult the model in Blackboard for a reference.

I will upload a sample of annotations within a writing project on Blackboard.

Here is a example how the work cited page should look like

Ben Sandholm

Prof. Almanza

English 102 – 015

May 2nd 2011

Works Cited

Heberle, Mark A. A Trauma Artist: Tim O’Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam. Iowa City:

University of Iowa, 2001. Print.

Karon, Tony. “Vietnam: Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost – TIME.” Breaking News,

Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews – TIME.com. TIME

Magazine, 26 Apr. 2000. Web. 13 Apr. 2011.

The article “Vietnam: Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost” was an article in the form of an interview with a former TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. He was a former infantryman in the United States Army at the time of the Vietnam War. He speaks from his expert standpoint about the United States’ role in the Vietnam War and if it was necessary that we were to get involved. Dowell states that the Vietnam War was unwinnable from the beginning because of many circumstances including an extremely difficult terrain to cover and the die-hard attitudes of the North Vietnamese soldiers that made it impossible to win. Dowell asserts that it was also a no-win situation because if we’d won it militarily we’d have lost it politically. He continues on about how the war did not strategically set back the United States and that it did not hinder us as a world super power.

The article was originally published in the year 2000 in Time magazine. The person being interviewed was a former United States Infantryman in the Army during the Vietnam War and was also a radio journalist for four and a half years during the war when he was not serving in the Army. William Dowell also has served as a correspondent for Vietnam with TIME magazine for over 20 years. These facts attest to the credibility of the article and can allow it to be taken seriously. He does not offer any sort of political bias towards the Vietnam War or any sort of radical thinking that could tarnish the credibility. He knows his information, politics, and history of the time.

After reading the article, I believe that there is some information that I could utilize for my research project. Dowell offers many unbiased historical facts and opinions that could be used to help my paper. Although the article was published 11 years ago, almost all of the points Dowell makes are still applicable today and could be used to help my research paper.

Kovic, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Print.

May, Ernest R. “How Will History View the War?” St. Petersburg Times [St. Petersburg,

FL] 26 Jan. 1973, 89th ed., sec. 186: 21. Print.

Mouer, Dan. “What Is a Vietnam Veteran?” VIETNAM VETERANS HOME PAGE. 1996.

Web. 8 Apr. 2011.

O’ Brien, Tim. “The Things They Carried.” Literature : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry,

Drama and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia. New York: Longman, 2010.

595 – 607. Print.

Price M.D., Dr. Jennifer L. “Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment

Study – National Center for PTSD.” National Center for PTSD Home. U.S.

Department of Veteran Affairs, 1 Jan. 2007. Web. 8 Apr. 2011.

PTSD : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dir. Paul Young. Films for the Humanities and

Sciences, Princeton, NJ, 2006. Harper Online Library. Harper College Library

Web. 8 Apr. 2011.

The video entitled PTSD is a 25-minute informational video about the psychological disorder known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The video includes insights from medical professionals and people who are afflicted with the disorder and how it has affected them throughout their lives. It is stated by the narrator, Dr. Kevin Soden, that PTSD has been around since there has been wars and other traumatic experiences but has been known by other names. After World War 1 it was referred to as “Shell Shock.” After World War II it was known as “Combat Fatigue” and after the Civil War it was called “Soldier’s Heart.” The individual with the disorder who is interviewed for the video is former United States Marine David Powell who served during the Vietnam War in 1967 to 1970. He provides numerous first hand accounts of how PTSD has negatively affected his life and how it took him many years of struggling before he obtained professional help.

The video appears to be an extremely credible source of information. The contributors for the video all come from either medical professionals such as doctors and psychologists such as Dr. Glenn Schiraldi of the University of Maryland and Terry Luper of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the information comes from first hand accounts of PTSD such as David Powell who has been diagnosed with the disorder. Dr. Kevin Soden provides expert narration throughout the video, which also helps to establish the credibility of the video. In all, the video runs roughly 25 minutes.

The video was extremely informative and provided details that are pertinent to the part of my research project that focuses on the aspects of what soldiers emotionally carried with them before and after the Vietnam War. Not only will I be using the information presented in the video for my paper, I will also use a short clip of the video for my presentation.

Schroeder, Eric James. Vietnam, We’ve All Been There: Interviews with American Writers.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.125-143. Print.

Sitikoff, Harvard. “The Postwar Impact of Vietnam.” Welcome to English « Department of

English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. University of Illinois, 1999. Web. 14

Apr. 2011.

The article written by Harvard Sitikoff discusses the postwar impact that Vietnam had on America. Sitikoff states that by the 1980s, Vietnam had become a staple in popular culture and that scholars, journalists, and Vietnam veterans themselves started to produce writings and literature about their experiences while serving. He says that most of the literature is negative of the War and that it has deeper lessons about foreign policies and American attitudes within the texts. He says that the US paid a high political cost and that the mishandling of the Vietnam War weakened public faith in the government. Sitikoff goes on to explain that something else was happening that had never happened before during other wars. That thing was the shunning and terrible treatment of the 2 million returning Vietnam veterans. He goes on to say that more veterans committed suicide after the war than the amount of soldiers who actually died while fighting in the war. Sitikoff goes on to explain that nearly 750,000 veterans have become what is known as “the lost army of the homeless” which is a term used to describe homeless and jobless Vietnam veterans throughout the United States.

The article is a very well written essay that was published by the English Department of the University of Illinois. The article is one of many that is on a website that is dedicated to different Vietnam War era essays and articles. The article and author are credible because they were put on a major university’s website as part of an online Vietnam War essay collection. The author’s credibility is good because he uses facts and figures that are all true. He does assert his opinion in a somewhat biased fashion but if you can look past it, it provides some good information.

This article will provide me with a fair amount of information about the social and political ramifications that the Vietnam War had on the American public, which is another key point in my research project. Some of the essay is opinionated but when I look past the opinions and look at the facts I can find some good resources to include in my project.

Smith, Lorrie N. “The Things Men Do : The Gendered Subtext in Tim O’ Brien’s Esquire

Stories.” 1994. Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers.

Vol. 74. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005. 236-48. Print.

The article “The Things Men Do: The Gendered Subtext in Tim O’ Brien’s Esquire Stories” is an essay that is critical of the collection of short stories titled “The Things They Carried.” The author, Lorrie N. Smith, is critical of O’ Brien by claiming that his stories are gender biased against females and that he objectifies, excludes, and silences females from his stories therefore leaving them out of the picture of the Vietnam War. She also claims that he is trying to rewrite the Vietnam War in a masculine perspective. While she does claim that these themes are apparent, she notes that she believes that Tim O’ Brien included them without the intentions of being sexist and objectifying the female gender.

The article is a very well written essay about the unintentional sexism that is present in Tim O’ Brien’s short stories in The Things They Carried. The article was found in an anthology of short story criticisms that is located in the reference section of the Harper Library. The article is credible and the author appears to have put a substantial amount of time and effort to develop her argument. After looking through some of the surrounding pages in the anthology, it became clear to me that there is a large discussion going on about the unintentional sexism found in the short stories.

While the article was well written and very informative about a topic that I was unaware of, it doesn’t seem to be useful for developing my research project. The topic she discusses does not in any way mention the emotional turmoil and the post-traumatic stress disorder that many Vietnam veterans experienced which is the main topic of my project. The source itself was very credible but would have worked if my paper was more focused on a literary criticism.