Sanders

Eng 104

Mini Anthology Writing Project (20%)

For your final writing project, each student will create a mini anthology based on the
readings/authors we have covered this semester and write a 5 – 7 page introduction to the works
selected.

The introduction is meant to inform the readers about the author, the pieces with an explanation:
(1) the authors – what do readers need to know to understand the works and specifically how you
are presenting them in this anthology, so you may need to include a brief biography about the
writers (2) why you selected these pieces, (2) how they fit together, (4) analysis of the works
individually, highlighting the works literary qualities.

This is a researched project, so you will need to include secondary research. You will need to find
and cite from at least one critical article for each of the works you are writing on and any
biographical information you might include. Only provide relevant biographical information that will
contribute the readers’ understanding of the works. At the minimum, each student will find three
outside sources (from library databases), all of which must be cited in MLA format. In addition to
your outside sources, you will need to include the primary sources. Your works cited page must go
on a separate page.

For the purpose of this assignment, you are an editor of a book, specifically an anthology that you
will have published. That means, I am asking you to not only pick pieces that you will include but to
introduce them to your readers, and to come up with a title of your anthology.

1. You may select three literary pieces from either the selection of readings we have completed,
a piece from our text that we, as class, have not read, or another written work by one of the
authors covered in class. However, you cannot use a work you have already written on,
unless you approach the work from another, new angle.
2. Once you have selected the pieces, you need to re-read the pieces and consider how you will
put them together to make sense to yourself and your reader. You could argue that the
pieces are your favorite works, or that reading the selected piece offer readers two sides to
the issue/topic If, for example, you are composing an anthology about Coming to Age in
America then how do the pieces contribute to that meaning, from whose perspective? You
can also look at archetypal characters, and explore how individual writers present these
through a detailed character analysis…(We will discuss to this more in class).

Due Dates

1. Anthology pieces due – Thursday 4/14

2. List of 3 outside sources due –April 26
3. Draft of Anthology Due Tuesday May 3
4. Anthology Due Tuesday May 10th