Write a brief prospectus for paper #3. In about 1 nice full page or two, typed, double-spaced, explain 1) the proposed topic of the next paper, 2) why you are interested, why it matters to you, 3) what's your thesis, and 4) what are the main reasons you think your thesis is true, and why your reader should believe it too, finally, 5) who might disagree with you and what fairly decent reasons for disagreement might they have. One way to think of this is as a kind of planning document for the paper. Also, it will allow me to comment on the suitability of the topic and on the thesis before you start really writing the paper.

Remember the process of writing; it's important to have a process.

ichabod crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in washington irving's short story, "the legend of sleepy hollow", first published in 1820. in popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as "the headless horseman."

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

- free verse.

- " in poetry, one of the best ways to practice technique is to write in. i want all to be unstressed so that “all the clocks” and “in the night” are matching anapests. many forms that sharpen skills are useful in free verse."

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.