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Essays: 2 essays, typed, 4-5 pages long. Correct grammar and
formal organization are required. See essay example for
organization. See essay example for organization. Each essay
must have at least two scholarly sources from college data bases
or library books. MLA style with a Works Cited page.
Obtaining secondary sources:
Library Resources: find a list of databases: Academic Search
Complete, JSTOR, or Project Muse.
Do not use the Internet for your sources.
Primary sources:the text; that is to say, the
story/stories/poem/poems you are analyzing. A citation for each
of these must go on the Works Cited page.
Secondary sources:these are scholarly articles written about the
texts. A citation for each of these must go on the Works Cited
page
Knight Cite
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
Grammar errors
http://iws.collin.edu/Andrade/andrade/grammarstandards.html
Sample essay with sources
http://iws2.collin.edu/andrade/andrade/sampleessaysources.htm
Grading checklist
http://iws2.collin.edu/andrade/1302/checklistlit.htm
Instructor “ I use this checklist to grade your essays. If you
have too many grammatical errors, you cannot make higher than
a C”
Essay # 2 Topics, choose one:
1) Describe John Milton’s sexism in regard to Eve. In other
words, discuss his portrayal of Eve as consistently inferior to
Adam.
2) Follow the devolution (descent through a series of changes)
of Satan's character, both physically and emotionally. Explain
why Milton portrays Satan as an heroic figure in the beginning

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and a serpent in the end. What point is he trying to get across to
the reader?
3) Discuss Milton’s concept of good and evil; how does he
present this dramatically in the epic?