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From All Quiet Responses…. Make sure as your drafts turn into finals to drop key phrases in commentary, such as, “This is when…” and “This shows that…”
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From All Quiet Responses… Make sure as your drafts turn into finals to drop key phrases in commentary, such as, “This is when…” and “This shows that…” 2. Use your commentary to persuade me to think as you do; the “top” piece of commentary provides context and a little bit of analysis. The “bottom” bun provides analysis and should be convincing.
Focus on STRONG WORD CHOICE! • No usage of the following: things, stuff, very, a lot, really, and the dialogue verb, says. • Find a place to use a share word or two, but don’t go overboard! • “THICK TAN NECKS!” Don’t use I, me, my, you, we or our. Stay objective. Use phrases such as “When one analyzes Tom…” or “As the reader analyzes Jay…”
Use the “Literary Present” when discussing the novel. (No point loss in the AQ assignment) • Recount the novel as if it were happening in front of you. • WRONG: “When Jay met Daisy, he told her his name was Jay Gatsby.” • Verbs are underlined; make them present tense! • RIGHT: “When Jay meets Daisy, he tells her his name is Jay Gatsby.”
After a year of semicolons, don’t be afraid of a compact snowball. • Going against my soul, there are times when a semicolon or other extended punctuation methods are NOT as strong as a short, powerful statement. • “As Gatsby continues to follow Daisy, he realizes time is running out. Soon he hears the bad news: Daisy is married. His dream is dead.”
Be efficient • Especially between quotes, make sure that you use powerful analysis so that you are streamlined in getting to your second quote! • In “the middle of the burger,” be aware of taking too long to get to your second quote! This is why the STRENGTH of your analysis—not the volume—is imperative.
Conclusions are EASY! • They are constructed in a similar manner to introductions, but are need to be limited to 4-6 lines. PROVIDE NO NEW INFO! • Have a fresh (different) restatement of your thesis; this does not have to be quite as formal. Supply a few sentences that summarize your argument (not the novel). • Have a killer LAST SENTENCE! • A quote CAN be used, but isn’t required.
Tom Buchanan is never held accountable for his actions, and by the novel’s end, vanishes. Yet again, Fitzgerald proves his point: money distorts marriages and friendships and robs them of emotional depth. Nick, Daisy, Tom, and Jay leave the Eggs in different manners: by a bullet, by a fast car, and by a slow train. However each of their hearts is as vacant as Gatsby’s empty mansion.
Make sure you have a Works Cited page! This will be a separate page unto itself; it will have the title, centered, Works Cited, and have a page number like previous pages. Most of us will have only one entry. If you have a comparison essay, you will have two entries. Look to the OWL link for details, but most will simply look like this:
Gantz 5 Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner’s, 1995. Note—the entry is double-spaced and the second line is indented one tab (five spaces) and the MOST RECENT year is given. Alphabetize entries if you have more than one.
