Writing Homework Help

Objective: To write a coherent, organized essay that is developed and shaped through the process of review and revision.

Assignment: We are reading and discussing Mark Twain’s “Cannibalism in the Cars” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat.” Write an essay of 950 words (three pages), discussing the role of the spoken word in these stories. You may write about both stories or choose to focus on one of the stories. Venture some opinion as to the intentions of the authors: what are Twain and Hurston working to communicate? Why have they chosen to make such a stark demarcation between the parts of the text that are presented as direct speech and the other parts of the text? Is the demarcation that easily defined? What is the effect produced in the reader by these characters speaking out loud? You are not to do any research for this essay: read and reread the stories. Use specific examples from the stories. Useful specific examples will support an argument. Clarity of expression and argument should be your first concern. Appropriate MLA conventions of citation and acknowledgment must be observed.

Details: Please observe the conventions of MLA style: page numbers, margins, font, indentation, spacing, in-text citation, and proper acknowledgment of source material. Your submissions must be double-spaced and printed in Times New Roman, 12-pt. Please give your work a distinctive and appropriate title.