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.

Library Resources: find a list of databases: Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, or Project Muse - http://collin.libguides.com/britlit2

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: this site helps you prepare your Works Cited page. Just fill in the blanks and this machine orders correctly the bibliographic information and provides the appropriate punctuation.

Grammar errors: Review these before writing responses and essays

Sample essay with sources

Sample response paper

YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR OWN QUTATION AND QUTATION FROM THE BOOK.

Conclusion : Literature your own EPIC world, your own thinking.

Essay # 1. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and in the story of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur: "The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere," "War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot," and "The Death of Arthur," the knights are faced with grave moral dilemmas. Explain the moral choices they must make and whether their choices are for the best. Right or wrong, the knights have something to teach their society.