ENGL 202 Paper #1 due Friday, SEP 30th at 5:00 p.m.
The paper is late if submitted after the due date.
Paper Worth 15 points. Point reduction each day the paper is late.
Choose one (1) of the following essay paper topics and write a 3-5 page paper. Submit
your paper in the Blackboard Papers Due Link by the due date.
TOPIC #1: Slavery & Bondage Era: Wheatley & Equiano
(not their lives but their selected, assigned literary work for this class)
• How did Phillis Wheatley’s poems and Olaudah Equiano’s narratives make a
case for equality and abolition? Focus on Wheatley’s “On Being Brought
from Africa to America,” and other poems, and Equiano’s The Life of
Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.
TOPIC #2: Slavery & Bondage Era: Douglass & Jacobs
(not their lives but their selected, assigned literary work for this class)
• What does Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
and his “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech and Harriet Jacobs’
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself teach about the system
of American slavery and the effects it had on Americans then and even now?
TOPIC #3: Reconstruction Writers: Washington & DuBois
(not their lives but their selected, assigned literary work for this class)
• Compare and contrast the literary works of Booker T. Washington and W. E.
B. DuBois, and focus on major themes revealed in their literary work Up
From Slavery, “The Atlanta Exposition,” The Souls of Black Folk, etc. Which
philosopher had the best ideas for racial uplift, and why?
FOR YOUR ESSAY PAPER, You may include a discussion of literary themes,
rhetorical strategies, and literary elements used by these authors in your literary analysis.
Be sure to include, utilize, and parenthetically cite the assigned texts/materials from the
course (NO OUTSIDE SOURCES) to help textually support your claims and overall
literary analysis. Be sure to see HOW TO CITE anthologies or books with editors and
other sources in APA format for this selection. Use www.scribbr.com. The paper must
include a references list in APA style.
ESSAY REQUIREMENTS:
• APA style & format
• Introduction, body, conclusion
• Thesis statement in introduction, at least 3 major points
• 3-5 pages in length
• Double-spaced
• Parenthetical citations in APA format
• References page in APA format
• A creative title
• Times New Roman font type
• Size twelve (12) font
Four (4) conventions of writing about literature:
1. Assume a literate audience; don’t explain basic details; don’t retell/summarize the
narrative; analyze it.
2. Include titles and authors’ full names in the introduction. Thereafter, refer to authors
by last name only.
3. Use 3rd person. Don’t use 1st person singular (I) to state opinions; the reader knows
the opinions are yours.
4. Use present tense in literature; the book exists in the present every time someone
picks it up and reads it.
All papers must be in APA style & format.
• Papers must be cited parenthetically when referred to via quoting (directly or
indirectly), paraphrasing, or summarizing from the textbook. Outside sources are not
required but can be used.
• Plagiarism will not be tolerated. A grade of “F” will be assigned in the event that any
paper is found to include plagiarism. Do your own work. Do not use old VSU papers
or others’ work. Use SMARTHINKING for Helpance.
• Click on the Paper 1 Link to SUBMIT paper by the due date.
• Papers will not be accepted/graded if they are submitted incorrectly. Please double check to see that your submission has gone through.
Please submit/upload papers as ATTACHMENTS in MS Word or PDF only.
o Do not submit papers as text.
o Do NOT write papers on cell phones or mini-tablets.
o Use a computer.
o Students have 3 attempts to submit this paper in Blackboard.
If you cannot see your paper after you have submitted it, the professor cannot see it.
• If your paper is submitted correctly, a YELLOW circle will appear in the grade book.
• If there was a submission error, a BLUE circle/unfinished clock will show.
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• MS Word documents are saved as .DOC or .DOCX file types.
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