Essay 2

Due: Wednesday 1 October

Length: 2 double spaced typewritten pages

Topic: The significance of the least important detail in Plutarch=s Antonius

Explain carefully the significance of that detail in Plutarch=s Antonius that you selected as the least important detail in your first essay. You may wish to consider such issues as how the detail fits into the shape of Plutarch=s narrative and how this detail contributes to Plutarch=s picture of his main character and to his picture of the cultural context into which he placed the main character.

You are expected to pay careful attention to establishing a clearly defined position (thesis) in your essay and to making sure that your paragraphs are quite directly related to this position. A helpful hint is that your thesis may, in fact, be the very last item that you will define in your essay even though you will place it at the beginning of your paper.

Another Ahelpful hint@ is to make sure that each of your paragraphs is constructed around a single, well defined topic.

Evaluation:

17% of this term=s essay mark (=10% of the term’s grade)

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GUIDE FOR ESSAY 2

1. Title:

Have you included your name and the name of the course at the head of the first page of your essay?

Have you formulated a title for your essay that clearly relates to the main topic of your paper?

2. Introduction:

Does your first paragraph begin with a clear statement about the position which you have taken in your essay?

Do the remaining sentences in your first paragraph let the reader know what to expect in the rest of your essay?

Do these sentences let the reader know how you have argued your position in the rest of your essay?

3. Exposition:

Does each of your subsequent paragraphs focus clearly on a topic mentioned in your introduction?

Does each sentence in this paragraph focus on the topic of the paragraph?

Are the sentences in each paragraph made to relate to each other or are they merely a series of unrelated observations?

Is each sentence a complete sentence?

4. Conclusion:

Does your conclusion follow from the evidence on which you based your exposition?

Is it what you advertised in your introduction?

5. Syntax and style:

Are you certain that you have noticed the difference between singulars and plurals?

Are most of your verbs active?

Have you used your dictionary, even for looking up ordinary words?

6. Special reminder:

This essay is about Plutarch's Antonius; don't try to focus on the Areal@ Antonius.

Please make sure that you use 12pt. type throughout your essay.

(Be kind and respectful to the aging faculties of the Faculty!)

Do not separate your subjects from their verbs with commas!