Paper 1
Explication
The skill of explication is extremely important in writing in the humanities. If you cannot make your reader understand what you are writing about, your own arguments will not make much sense to them. Therefore, in this first paper, we will be practicing explication of a text.
Choose one of the sample pieces of literature in your textbook—a poem, an essay, a story, it doesn’t matter. Just choose one. Then write a paper in which you explicate the meaning of that text to your reader. Do not just summarize, but EXPLAIN the text and make sure you make the multitude of meanings within the text clear to your reader. Do not just describe the text, but pull out themes, concepts, ideas, images—anything you feel is contributing to meaning within the text and discuss it in your paper. Remember not to just jump around from topic to topic in your paper, but draw your reader through the text in an organized fashion. Your essay should flow and be cohesive, not disjointed choppy. Ultimately, you want to leave your reading with a thorough understanding of what that text is trying to accomplish and how it does so.
This paper should be relatively short—about 4-5 pages, not including the works cited or reference pages. Remember to cite your sources—including the text you are writing about. This paper does not require any secondary sources. I’d really like you to focus on the primary source for this first paper, so it’s okay if your paper only has one source on its works cited page.
Remember to be consistent in terms of citation AND format for whichever citation method you use. If you use APA, make sure your paper has a cover sheet. If you are using MLA, make sure your first page has the proper headings, headers, and title. Remember to ASK if you are uncertain of the rules of citation. Papers that do not cite will receive zero points.
USE “Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death” For this assignment
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Poe/Red_Death.pdf
This is the citation for the text book
Works Cited
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Masque of the Red Death.” Dobie, Ann. Theory Into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Stamford: Cengage Learning, 2015. 344-348. Textbook.
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