Title: Iliad
Author: Homer (“D’oh!”)
Edition: Penguin Classics (1990)
ISBN: 9780140275360
1. Essay needs to be double-spaced, 3 page 5 paragraphs in length–no more, no less. The essay as a whole shall not exceed three typed pages, using a 12 font and one inch margins.
2. Essay shall have an introductory paragraph. This introduction will present a clear analytical theme (a thesis argument). Furthermore, the introduction will also include three arguments from the text to support the thesis. In effect, the introductory paragraph will provide the blueprint for where the essay seeks to go so that the reader knows what to expect.
3. Following the introduction, the essay will then present three paragraphs, each of which will address one argument as noted in the introduction. These explanatory paragraphs should be concise in their construction, with the paragraph point made definitively.
4. Each paragraph needs to have one to two book citation to support each of the three arguments..
5. Essay need to have a “reflective paragraph” at the end. In this paragraph, the paragraph needs to be a summation of the arguments/thesis presented in the body of the text. In addition, the student may (probably should) make some conclusions about the validity of the text in terms of the essay thesis. In other words, what does the text fail to address? What does it leave out? How could questions like these be answered?