Essay on Cather

General Assignment Description:

Length: 1,000-2,000 words (about three pages). Please observe the length requirement: no shorter and not significantly longer.

For this assignment, you will write an essay on the following question: How does Willa Cather create a sense of place in her 1925 novel The Professor’s House? The essay should include supporting evidence from the novel and application of course concepts and insights about place-experience from the first 4 modules of LST 470.

1. Please include the following aspects of place-experience in your discussion:

• Place-meanings for different social, cultural, and/or religious groups
• Place-description through colors, shapes, and other sensory experience
• Movement across the landscape, from place to place, or connection to place

2. Support your analysis with evidence from the novel, including a few select quotes.

3. Apply and demonstrate understanding of course concepts and insights about understanding place from Modules 1-4 in LST 470.

4. Essays should draw on Cathers novel and on course resources, not on outside sources. All paraphrases and quotes from Cather and course resources must have in-text parenthetical citations with author and page number in MLA or APA style, with Works Cited or References at the end of the paper. Use whichever of the two styles you are more comfortable with. (Note: if you use APA, I don’t want an Abstract.)

5. Paper should be 1,000 words minimum, 2,000 words maximum, double-spaced in 12 pt font with 1 inch margins, in Times New Roman. Use in-text citations and a reference list (a title page and reference list do not count toward the assignment minimum). Please revise, edit, and proof for format, organization, fluency, mechanics, diction, spelling, and tone.

6. Please write in your own words, using quotes only to support your statements, not in place of them. All quotes must be placed in quotation marks; and all quotes, paraphrases and summaries from sources must be cited using parenthetical, in-text citations (author and page number in parentheses for MLA) (author, date and p. number in parentheses for APA). Quotes should not comprise more than 20% of any paper.

NOTE: Plagiarism in any form will not be tolerated: possible consequences include receiving a zero for the assignment, an E for the Course, or an XE for the course. See the Syllabus statement on Academic Integrity and AI Policy.