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Preliminary Information on the essay
The essay will ask you to answer questions in mini-essays
of 500 words. The questions will be either on themes/messages (such as
love or injustice) or song elements (such as striking poetry, first-person
confessions, memorable choruses). For each of your mini-essays, you will use 4
musicians from among our Core Song list. As with the other assignments in this
course, your essay answers will be evaluated on the quality of their content,
organization, and development (including compelling lyric quotes), and the
quality of the written expression (especially grammar, punctuation, sentence
and quotation mechanics, and spelling.). You may draw upon any songs on our
Core Song List. Avoid using the same musicians twice. To summarize, the purpose
of this exam is to allow you to synthesize your cumulative knowledge of the
Core Songs in this course through the composition of two thoughtful, clearly
written brief essays on general themes or song elements you’ve been exposed to
this term.
Tips:
a. Make sure your song lyrics are handy so you can
quote with accuracy.
b. Use musicians’ surnames –eg. Mitchell;
c. Put songs
in quotation marks—eg. “Hallelujah”
d. Look over comments I’ve made about your writing in
previous Discussions and the Major Research Essay, and attend to any of those
errors and weaknesses before this essay.
e. No list of References is required for this essay;
however, your lyric quotes need to be in quotation marks and grammatically
integrated.
