ENGL 4693 / 5613
AMST 5853
Mark Twain
Questions for
Analysis of Twain’s Stories Please print this
document and bring it to every class meeting.
Model Weekly Writings
Comments on
Weekly Writings 2 & 3 Please print this
document and bring it to class on February 8, 2011.
Principles of
Literary Evaluation
Term Essay
Suggested
Topics for Term Essay Revised for Spring
2011. Subject to further updates.
Checklist A
better-formatted version of this document is available in class.
Model Term Essays [These two undergraduate essays are in a single PDF file. One essay is about Twain’s satire of Christianity, the other about his satire of bureaucracy. Do NOT read an essay that is too close to the subject of your own essay. Use these essays as models especially of how to state a thesis, set up main points to support the thesis, integrate several stories into each body paragraph, and make your examples brief but very specific.]