Week Six Assessment: “Manfred” Analysis Contest (final submission board, not the
Week Six Assessment: “Manfred” Analysis Contest (final submission board, not the earlier peer review for extra credit)
Assignment Objective: The related discussion board activity will ask you to treat an analysis of _Manfred_ as a characteristically Romantic, or Gothic Romantic, work. It has two parts.
For the first part, in 150+ words each, you will have to note five specific Gothic Romantic features of the work, following by examples from the text. You may use my handout on the Byronic Hero and my slideshow on Gothic Romanticism. You must cite them, both in text and in closing citations. Use the citation formats for electronic texts, and e-lectures, including in-text citations that include the slide or page number (with numbers only in the bubble). For the play, use this format (act.scene.lines). Your MLA guide has examples on citing electronic texts in your paper, with appropriate signal phrases. Remember not to just copy and paste any citations. You need to adapt them to MLA 9, following the standards in our guide. Also, don’t forget that in bibliographic citations, all lines after the first one (within each entry) are indented five spaces. If you hit the return key at the end of the line, it should let you indent then begin the next line.
Prepare and proofread your answer in your Word-processing program. Then, copy and paste it into the discussion area.
Remember to do three things for each of the five answers: tell us what quality you are interpreting, provide specific evidence from the text, then “spin,” or interpret the evidence so we see how it proves the point you are making. Remember to think like a lawyer, explaining to a jury how the evidence in question proves something specific (in their case, guilt or innocence). Just as lawyers don’t make a point and present the evidence to back it up without saying how it fits, you should spend most of your attention on the third step.
