Writing Homework Help

Essay 3 is English 102’s Research Essay assignment, and this means that you need to complete research and report what you learn from that research. For Essay 3, choose two writers featured in our English 102, research their lives and their work, and explore the following questions:

1. How did they grow up? How did they become writers? Where and when did they find their first audiences?
2. Do you see evidence for biographical influences in each writer’s work? That is, does the work seem to be based on or informed by lived experience? If so, how? 
3. Is the writer trying to entertain or to educate? If you think the writer does both, how does the writer use entertainment to educate? And how does each writer anticipate and work with the communicative needs and expectations of his or her audiences to achieve that purpose? To explore this question, be sure to find out when and how a particular work was first published or performed, and what else was going on at the time. 
4. How is each author’s purpose reflected in his or her work? Explore possibilities like the set-up, the protagonists and antagonists, the tone, or any other feature of that reveals the work’s themes.