Essay 3 Requirements

1.    Write an essay in which you come up with your own idea, which is complex and intriguing in some way, about the relationship between image and meaning.

2.    Incorporate into your essay an analysis of a visual image (or set of images) in such a way that the analysis contributes substantively to this idea.  The analysis should relate how the image means with what it mean.  (See page facing p. 513 in The Presence of Others, and also pages 8-9, for ways to analyze a visual text.)

3.    Has an introduction that pulls readers into your question/issue and gives them a general but clear sense of what will follow.

4.    Cites particular passages in at least one Presence essay as evidence for your point, integrating them smoothly into your own text.  Summarizes concisely and accurately the Presence essays ideas.

5.    Leads the reader through the parts of the essay in a way that the reader sees where you're headed and gives the reader a sense of having arrived somewhere by the conclusion.

6.    Conveys a sense of your writer's voice--without being too informal and "talky."  That is, the style of the essay has a certain enlivening energy to it.

7.    Follows MLA format, 3-4 pages long, with metatext, submitted to Learning Space and final draft submitted as a printed copy.

*You may notice that much of #1 and all of #3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are exactly the same as the requirements for Essays 1 and 2, so you should be able to build upon what you've already learned.  The key new requirement is #2.