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Essay Instructions: Writers username : mmorley and/or someone with superior knowledge on this book (WHOEVER knows the subject best)
Research paper
Book : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Thesis : I need the thesis statement e-mailed to me as soon as possible if possible and restated separately at the top (for my personal knowledge)before the research paper / essay
ex.
Thesis:……statement here.
Paper Title:……..the research paper/ essay starts here

-10 pages - 11 sources

the paper/ essay
has to be either a persuasive or mediating essay that sways the audience to adopt a point of view of the writer or to take a certain course of action.

If it is a persuasive essay, evaluate forms of appeal: the appeal to reason, to character, to emotion, and the appeal through style.

If it is mediating essay, you need to know the positions that you’re mediating. Your analyses will need to locate areas of disagreements about facts, interests, assumptions, principles and so forth. What is the source of conflict and how can it be resolved? Propose a solution to the dispute that will satisfy both sides. The paper needs to navigate the spaces of disagreements among the sources, and needs to either defend a position or provide a balance or compromise. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the sources making an argument on your topic using the Toulmin model.
Toulmin model ex.@ http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~digger/305/toulmin_model.htm

Purpose of the paper: to persuade a reader to act or to mediate the disagreement of an argument.

Sources : - Use MLA style/documentation
- A) Cite your sources. When introducing another author’s ideas or words, use a tag or signal phrase (for example, “According to Dicken’s…”). Give the page number of the passage in parentheses and the name of the author if you did not mention it before.
- B) Quote, paraphrase or summarize other authors according to your need in introducing them.
- C) On a “Works Cited” page, list all authors cited. The list needs to be in alphabetical order and complete bibliographical information for each source must be shown.
- D) Possible sources that can be used listed below:
- sources, essays and articles (Elements of Argument) 9th Rottenberg
- books, excluding novels
- articles from popular magazines(Times, Newsweek or similar)
- newspaper articles
- articles from academic or professional journals
- non-textual sources: TV program, lecture, film, videotape, news reports, advertising in magazines, billboards, interviews and more
- electronic sources such as those on the Internet(carefully evaluate these)
- novels, poetry, art, music sculpture, architecture, drama, dance and crafts.

Essay Instructions: This paper should be a literary analysis on the method of teaching the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The focus should be on Twains use of humor, satire, and realism of the period. If it makes things easier, it would be possible to include 2 short stories (one being "The Jumping Frog") to make this a complete unit of study but is not entirely necessary.

Essay Instructions: Many critics believe that Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most subversive texts in American literature. There is not one social institution that does not fall victim to the satiric jabs of Twain's most powerful weapon: his pen. In a well developed essay respond to the following
1: select two institutions that Twain targets for ridicule in Huckleberry Finn
2: Discuss in detail the two incidents that reveal the incidents

MUST INCLUDE:
Introduction: 4-5 Sentences with the thesis statement serving as the last sentence
Body 1: Topic Sentence, followed by a discussion and direct quote from the text
Body 2: Topic Sentence, followed by a discussion and direct quote from the text
Conclusion: Restate the thesis, restate the main points

Smooth Transitions from paragraph to paragraph are important

Essay Instructions: textbook= a handbook of critical approaches to literature. 4th edition. isbn=9.

choose four of the critical approaches that are discussed in the textbook above. briefly explain each approach and apply it to mark twain''s "the adventures of huckleberry finn."

you do not have to use anything other than the theories in the book and your own critical intelligence. but to more effectively apply a given critical mode, you may choose to do outside research. if so, please document MLA format.

at the conclusion of the paper, evaluate the effectiveness of the approaches you have used, identify the approach or combination of approaches which you prefer and while you like it.