Grammar, punctuation, and spelling all count in this 750-word essay, about three pages, which uses MLA documentation to objectively answer one of four different questions. (Essays without citations to the assigned texts or videos earn unsatisfactory grades.) In the column on the left of this screen, can be found MLA-Brush Up and Two Sample Student Essays from another class to give you an idea of the way that essays should look. Your essay should be divided into paragraphs made up of an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Be sure to give your essay an original title—not Marx Essay and not Midterm Essay—centered above the introductory paragraph, and be sure to indent every new ¶ with a “tab.” You must choose ONE of the four different topics below.
Paragraph ¶1) The introduction explains briefly who the authors are and what they were known for. The introductory paragraph italicizes the titles of books and ends with a thesis statement that answers ONE of the four following questions.
How do Kropotkin and Thomas Malthus view struggle for existence differently?
How do Lamarck and Darwin explain the modification of species differently?
Does Oscar Wilde oppose altruism for the same reason as Andrew Carnegie?
Does Adam Smith see labor specialization the same way as Karl Marx?
Please answer ONLY ONE of these questions–with a yes or a no–in a thesis statement that you position at the end of an introductory paragraph. If you cite from one of the videos we watched, make sure to use timings (minute:second) to cite passages from it. Remember to include after each essay a list of Works Cited–all you have to do is copy and paste the citation of video, given on screen, or the citation of book or article from the Weekly Course Work. (There are located under the week of the Weekly Course Work in which they were presented.) Please use Times New Roman font, 12 pt size, in creating a document with margins and paragraphs. Do not rewrite the question at the beginning of your answer
¶Paragraphs 2 through 4, roughly) The body paragraphs of essay should fall between 100-200 words in length. Counting the introduction and the conclusion, the essay should contain somewhere between 5 and 8 body paragraphs, each of which is built around a different example that relates to the thesis. Each body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence (and never a quotation) that indicates the main idea of the paragraph. Each body paragraph supports a single main idea by using material and examples from the text in the form of quotation and/or paraphrase. IMPORTANT: Make sure to cite the page numbers (or timings) of passages in the ASSIGNED text (or video) that you refer to.
¶Last) The conclusion does not introduce new examples. Instead, it recapitulates what has already been said and puts the essay’s thesis in a broader context. It is the best place for making personal comments, if you like. After the conclusion of the essay, bibliographic information about the texts, either printed and/or audiovisual, should be given as the Work Cited, which can be copied and pasted from the WEEKLY COURSE WORK. Do not use Wikipedia, SparksNotes, or Gradesaver. These are not college-level secondary sources.
Remember to use Times New Roman font (12pt size) and to double-space between lines. Check that the essay’s length is roughly 800 words–about three pages–and print the word count to the end of the essay last after the Work Cited. Essays submitted late incur a ten-point penalty and are not accepted more than three days after the due date.
No plagiarism