Construct a thoughtful, well-organized, well-argued short paper (2 pages) using complete sentences, properly-spelled words, impeccable grammar and five-paragraph structure, which responds to the following:
Using Aristotle’s Poetics, analyze Macewen’s adaptation of Trojan Women and Evans’ Trojan Barbie. Compare and contrast one scene from Macewen with the corresponding scene in Evans’ version. Why has this story been used to push for social change?
Some things to avoid/keep in mind with respect to your writing:
2. Do not use contractions (e.gs. can’t, won’t, aren’t).
3. A thesis consists of two parts:
a. What do you intend to argue?
b. How do you intend to argue it?
4. Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which I will not put.
5. Avoid simple, vague verbs such as “come,” “go,” and “make”.
6. No colloquialisms, e.g.: “The play was hella good.” Avoid conversational style. Academic writing is a formal discipline.
7. Don’t equivocate. Stand and deliver. No might, may, could, possibly, etc.
8. Use active voice. When you write is, are, was, were, have, has, had, followed by a verb ending in “ing” or “ed,” (a participle or a gerund) rephrase the sentence to put the active agent in the driver’s seat of the sentence. Instead of: “The race was run by him,” use “He ran the race.”
9. No sesquipedalianisms. Don’t use a ten-dollar-word when a two-dollar one will serve. MS Word’s Thesaurus is worse than its Grammar check.
10. Watch fragments, comma-splices, and run-on sentences.
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