For this assignment, students will write an essay comparing how gender is portrayed in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, the role of women in the 21st century.
This essay should:
- make specific and obvious points of comparison between the two topics
- be 1000 words long
- have an explicit thesis statement, with a main idea (the topic of the paper) and a controlling idea (what you, as the author, is saying about the topic)
- include an integrated, direct quote from the text to support the thesis in each of the body paragraphs
- be written using APA formatting guidelines
- use APA guidelines for citation, both in-text and on a References page
- avoid using 1st- or 2nd-person references (focus on objective 3rd-person references instead)
- be submitted as a MS Word .docx file
Quotations and In-Text Citation:
Quotations must be in quotation marks and all quotations must be cited. Here is a correct citation for a quotation:
Mrs. Mallard knew that "Mhere was something coming to her, and she was waiting for it." (Chopin, 1894, 15).
Notice, as well, that this particular quotation has a lead-in, introductory phrase, as should all of your direct quotes.