Essay

Some of the works on the syllabus, Agamemnon, Oedipus Tyrannus, Medea, Utopia, The Prince, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet will be emphasized, while the other, shorter works will be treated more briefly. (Students are invited to explore any of these works in more depth in their research papers.) By contrasting the works, the instructor hopes to convey a sense of the dynamism of history. For the first writing assignment the essay is focused on Agamemnon Aeschylus and I will attach the required pdf to use, each student should submit a 1,000 word essay which attempts to explicate an episode, a character, a scene, or a theme from one of the works on the syllabus. (Rewrites will be due ten days after the first draft is returned.) One thousand words is a minimum lengththere is no maximum lengthand short essays will be penalized heavily. Please note, inadequate research and plagiarism will both be penalized severely. The sources of any borrowed ideas or phrases must be clearly, u n am b ig u o u sly acknowledged. Quotations and paraphrases should be framed: they should be initiated by an announcement of the author and concluded by a citation of the source. Essays should be neat, typed, double-spaced, and easily legible with one inch margins. They should be either typed, ink-jetted or laser printed in 14 point Times Roman. (Parenthetical citation is permitted for the first essay, but proper footnotes in 10 pt or 12 pt type are required for citations in the second essay.) For the second assignment, students are not allowed to use parenthetical citations; instead, footnotes should be formatted according to either the MLA footnote style (Appendix B in the MLA Handbook) or in Chicago style. Remember, the use of AI is strictly forbidden, and AI-assisted papers will receive zeroes. Please note, I check papers for AI usage. In addition, anyone caught documenting an essay with fake citations risks failing the entire course for that offense alone, and I will never write them a letter of recommendation.