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Overview This paragraph serves two purposes: it gives you a chance to compose your thoughts on the work, and helps you practice writing concise body paragraphs -- the basic component of the essays you'll be writing later this semester. The paragraph should work as an independent body paragraph: think of it as part of a larger essay on a particular aspect of the literary work. Remember that you will not be able to "say" all you want about the literary work in one paragraph: it is meant to provide practice in the art of narrowing down and discussing a single aspect of a work in detail. When writing your paragraph, the most important things to remember is planning, drafting, revision, and proofreading; in other words, the things you learned in your introductory writing course. Writing a good body paragraph will take more than one draft, but since it's short, you should have the time to complete them.
Instructions This assignment will consist of four distinct parts
See below for specific breakdown of each part.
Topics
Check the introductory material in the textbook, your class notes, and the course site (Lesson Plan for Bradford and Secondary Sources page) for aspects/characteristics of Puritanism you can connect to these authors. Focus on a particular point of Puritans, not a general point like" faith." Topic 2
(hint: consider how punishment can change people). Topic 3
Use the introductory material material from the textbook to help establish what the transcendental movement entailed. See also the website (Supplemental Readings>Secondary Sources) for short essays on Transcendentalism). You should be quoting from either of these sources to confirm that ________ is, indeed, an aspect of transcendentalism. © 2012 David Bordelon
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