{"id":21536,"date":"2024-04-16T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/discuss-how-the-aeneid-is-a-new-political-epic-what-are-the-foundations-for-roman-society-and-what-is-mans-relationship-to-these-foundations\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:41:41","slug":"discuss-how-the-aeneid-is-a-new-political-epic-what-are-the-foundations-for-roman-society-and-what-is-mans-relationship-to-these-foundations","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/discuss-how-the-aeneid-is-a-new-political-epic-what-are-the-foundations-for-roman-society-and-what-is-mans-relationship-to-these-foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss how The Aeneid is a new \u201cpolitical\u201d epic. What are the foundations for Roman society, and what is man\u2019s relationship to these foundations?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MLA format for citing and documenting your primary and<\/span>
secondary sources, with a \u201cWorks Cited\u201d page at the end (if you are just using one to three works<\/span>
for your paper, you can simply put the \u201cWorks Cited\u201d page at the end, with five or so spaces<\/span>
between the text and the \u201cWorks Cited\u201d list). No secondary sources required, but encouraged.<\/span>
Keep in mind, though, that since this is a university course, you need to assume full<\/span>
responsibility for the sources you use. In short, that means I roll my eyes very sarcastically when<\/span>
someone cites Sparknotes.com or some other source along those lines! Crap that agrees with you<\/span>
is still crap, and not much crap gets through peer reviewed journals and edited scholarly books.<\/span>
The internet, however, doesn\u2019t even require a good grasp of the English language for publication.<\/span>
So keep that in mind when you are conducting research. I would rather see a well-argued paper<\/span>
without secondary sources than a bland, badly written paper with a bunch of secondary sources.<\/span>
Also, keep in mind that your sources should not argue your paper, but rather serve as<\/span>
support for and\/or against your own, central argument. That\u2019s the most important thing: have an<\/span>
argument. Notice that I am not asking you to simply rewrite what you read. In college, no credit<\/span>
is given for grasping the completely friggin\u2019 obvious, so don\u2019t think that simply restating Plato\u2019s<\/span>
arguments or summarizing The Aeneid in a few pages is what I am looking for.<\/span>
Finally, here\u2019s what I want: a good paper.<\/span> <\/span>Here\u2019s what I hate: 1) short, one or two<\/span>
sentence paragraphs. They never explain or expand on anything, and make your paper look like<\/span>
a third-grader wrote it. 2) I also hate papers without good titles. Don\u2019t hand me a paper without<\/span>
a title. Even emails get titles, so college papers definitely should. Titles help your argument<\/span>
start before you even say a word. And, 3) I hate papers that can\u2019t quote correctly. Here\u2019s the<\/span>
trick: remove the quotation marks. If the sentence is grammatically correct, then you have<\/span>
quoted correctly. If not, fix it. By now you should be able to quote a source in anything you<\/span>
write. And, any quotation that goes over, say, two lines in your paper should be put in a block<\/span>
quotation. If you don\u2019t know how to use a block quotation, find out.<\/span>
Now, what kind of paper can you write? Since this course is cross-listed for both<\/span>
literature and \u201cthoughts, values and beliefs,\u201d you can choose to write either a literary analysis, or<\/span>
a philosophical analysis. That is, a literature paper or a philosophy paper. What\u2019s the difference?<\/span>
Well, that can\u2019t be handled adequately in just a paragraph. I have provided samples of both on<\/span>
Canvas, and I have advice for writing both styles on Canvas as well. Let\u2019s just say that the<\/span>
literary criticism paper relies on you to interpret and analyze figurative language and literary<\/span>
elements. The philosophy paper is more straight forward in that you put forth the philosophical<\/span>
system or part of a philosophical system of a thinker like Plato, and then analyze the pros and<\/span>
cons of his system or ideas. Now, don\u2019t be na\u00efve and think, \u201cgosh, all I got to do is summarize<\/span>
Plato and then agree with him!\u201d because that\u2019s not a good paper by a long shot. Nor is it a good<\/span>
paper to just summarize Plato and then say \u201che\u2019s wrong.\u201d While the philosophy paper is more<\/span>
straight forward, it calls for some deeper, intellectual effort. \u201cI don\u2019t believe Plato\u201d is not a<\/span>
philosophical statement. Trust me. So, both paper styles require difficulty and deep thinking.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MLA format for citing and documenting your primary andsecondary sources, with a \u201cWorks Cited\u201d page at the end (if you are just using one to three worksfor your paper, you can simply put the \u201cWorks Cited\u201d page at the end, with five or so spacesbetween the text and the \u201cWorks Cited\u201d list). No secondary sources […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[56],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=21536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}