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what dose " truth" mean in the play? what is the Significance er symbolism of Oedipus bling himself? Researched Critical Essay over Oedipus the King In Essay #2, you will write a critical essay over the play, Oedipus the King. The foundation for a strong essay will be the quality of your reading and thinking about this play. You will need to apply all the strategies of close, interactive, and critical reading as well as reflective thinking to be successful. Essay Requirements: You are to write a "critical essay" on Oedipus the King using one of the Essay Questions we determine together in-class. Your essay should be 1000-1250 words and include supporting information from the play as well as from a minimum of two critical articles found from the SAC Library Databases (in the databases I designate) and two books (one book at least should be the Fagel's introduction to the play). Students desiring an "A" will include at least five research sources (in addition to the play). The final draft should be turned in MLA Manuscript format using MLA Documentation Style to document sources Use These Databases (an no others): Project Muse, JSTOR, Literature Criticism Online and Literature Resource Center. Essay Question: As a class, we will develop a set of Essay Questions to assist you in focusing what to write on. You will choose your Essay Question from this set of options. If you choose to write on another Essay Question, you should gain instructor approval. Developing your "Argument" As you develop YOUR interpretation of the play and YOUR answer to YOUR ESSAY QUESTION, you will incorporate support for your thinking from both the play AND the academic articles and book(s) you find from research. You are encouraged to explore alternative interpretations, and handle them as point-counterpoint sections or paragraphs where you express and fairly summarize the alternative interpretation, and then counter or refute it. What is a "Critical Essay?" You will be writing another "critical essay," and an important part of doing well in this essay is continuing to learn and study the characteristics and features of a critical essay so that you can reproduce them in your own essay. You will find these three sources as essential to assisting you in this inquiry: 1) Guide to the Characteristics of a Critical Essay -- http://www.lirvin.net/WGuides/critical.htm woreA mugs (be sure and follow links that explain each feature) 2) "What is Academic Writing" http://www.parlorpress.com/pdf/irvin--what-is- academic-writing.pdf3) See this example critical essay using research: http://www.lirvin.net/WGuides/EGcritessaywresearch.pdf Writing Critical Summaries For this project, I am asking for you to find, read, and summarize TWO articles written on the play, If you read three articles, you can do three Critical Summaries. Follow the guidance below: Find Articles I am asking you to select articles from the Literature Resource Center database inside the SAC Library selection of databases. Alternatively, you can also use JSTOR. Read Your Article You will need to read this article closely and critically, so be sure to print a copy of your article so that you can annotate it. To help you summarize the article, I suggest that you re-read, re- skim the article and outline its main parts and points. Summarize Your Article You will write a 100-200 word summary of your article. Start the summary with the complete and correctly formatted Works Cited entry for the article. Skip a line and write your summary generally following this format: A) What is this article about? What question or issue or topic related to the story does it discuss? B) Summarize the main points that it makes related to this question/issue/topic. C) Evaluate what is useful or insightful about this article. Evaluate its limits too. Do you find the article useful and good or not? Why? Strategies for Developing Your Essay 1. Clarify your "logical skeleton" of your essay -Essay Questions: -Thesis: --Primary Supports (at least three) 2. Create "data sheets" or Evidence Sheets for each of your Primary Supports -put the THESIS + REASON/SUPPORT at the top of each page --review your play and your research sources for "evidence" that supports that reason/support and "collect" it on the data sheets 3. Use your Evidence Sheets as you write each separate Body paragraph Remember when you write the body paragraphs on each Primary Support that you will need at least THREE secondary supports with textual evidence for each Primary Support. Also, your secondary support will come from BOTH your research sources and the play.) Hint: "Good writers write from a surplus of information." Donald Murry See this Guide for Crossing the Bridge from Reading to WritingStudent Name: English 1302 Grading Profile for the Critical Essay: The feedback provided below is intended to assist you in understanding the strengths and weaknesses in your essay. Responses in the categories below do not add up to a grade, and poor performance in only one area could pull the grade of an essay down considerably. Ask any questions you have regarding how to interpret this feedback. Essays not meeting minimum requirements for length and/or sources can not get higher than a 70. Introduction/Thesis: Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor Failing An introduction that gains the reader's interest, provides needed background and restriction, clarifies the issue or essay question, and presents a clear thesis. The thesis should be a narrowly focused, clear statement that is interpretive in nature (placed at the end of the introduction) Organization: Ideas are organized around clear reasons or supports. One main support per body paragraph in the body, and ideas organized logically. Development/Support: The quality and depth of ideas in the essay reflect good development in the thinking of the author. Also. support comes from the text and is adequate and appropriate to be convincing. The essay avoids irrelevant material and plot summary. Coherence: Ideas are well-linked through the use of transitions. Clear topic sentences link to the thesis. The reader is easily able to follow the flow of ideas in the essay. Sources/Documentation: Use of MLA Documentation Style. Use of quotations for evidence and support. Punctuation with quotes. Use of quotes affects development and mechanics too. Mechanics/Grammar: Punctuation, sentence fragments, run-ons, subject- verb or pronoun agreement, spelling, typos, use of quotations, usage problems, or other grammatical issues. Essays with an excessive number of grammatical and mechanical errors (enough to distract the reader from receiving the ideas of the essay) will earn a grade of no higher than a "D." Grade: Comments and Suggestions