Assignment: Analyze Thoreau’s Views on Labor

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For this assignment, you will write a 750+-word, literary analysis on Walden.

In a well-developed, organized, and thesis-driven essay, please respond to one or more of the following ideas:

Analyze Thoreau’s views on labor and connect it to others from the book.

Analyze Thoreau’s views on wealth and connect it to others from the book.

Identify passages where Thoreau mentions Nature. Connect these quotations and explicate your understanding of Thoreau’s view/purpose of the nature world.

Using correct MLA format, you will need to first introduce your reader to Thoreau’s main ideas on your selected topic. Remember to start your introduction with a hook followed by an overview and/or historical/contemporary presentation of your ideas. You must also use 2-3 additional sources to support your thesis and argument from the book…

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.