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TOPIC: Analytical Choice =Defining the Sacred: Islam and Hinduism
BOOK and section: 3 THE SACRED
Art work showing Krishna and Arjuna on horseback
Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. Painting made by ISKCON, Mayapura, India.
Philippe Lissac / Godong / Corbis
Instructions
This essay should be a 600-900 word essay focusing on the assigned readings from the course. It is due by 11:55 pm ET on Sunday of Week 6.
This should be a close reading essay, and should use as evidence primarily passages from the work or works that you discuss. You may not use ANY outside sources without the instructor's approval.
The essay should be in MLA essay format (see the attached sample essay below), and use MLA citations. A works cited entry and in-text citations for each text discussed are required.
It should have a self-assessment (which should answer these questions) as the first page.
Analytical essays should be focused on making a debatable claim about the work in question; creative submissions should be focused on presenting a work or kind of work from a different angle. Informational essays or essays consisting of summary are not appropriate for either type of essay.
Both types of essay should be supported with discussion of specific passages from the text(s) on which the essay is focused. The grading rubrics for both analytical and creative choices are attached.
DISCLAIMER: Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.
Choose 1 of the following topics from either the Analytical or Creative categories. For the analytical choices, be sure to write a thesis-driven essay in response to the topic. Creative choices should be written as narratives.
Analytical Choices
Defining the Sacred: choose 2 sacred works that we have read, 1 from the two Abrahamic faiths (Islam and Christianity) and 1 from the Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) and make an argument about what similarities these excerpts have, and what those similarities can tell us about what it means for any work to be "sacred."
Final Draft Checklist
All essays for LITR 201 should:
• Have, instead of a title page, a self assessment that answers the questions specified below
• Be in MLA manuscript format
• Contain correctly formatted MLA-style in-text citations in the form of both signal phrases and parenthetical citations
• Contain an MLA-style Works Cited list of all works cited in the essay
Essays missing one or more of these elements will lose points.
Self Assessment Questions
Please answer all of the following questions in paragraph form; give as much detail as possible to help me understand how you went about writing the essay. This will allow me to better tailor my feedback to help you.
1. What topic did you decide to respond to and why?
2. If the topic allowed you to choose what works to write on, which work or works did you choose and why?
3. What do you feel are the strengths of your essay?
4. What parts of the essay do you feel are weaknesses or areas that could use more work?
5. Are there any particular parts of the essay on which you would like more feedback?
Remember that these questions should be answered in the form of a letter. See the Sample MLA Essay for an example of what the self assessment should look like.
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