The three long essays in this course provide a 60% of your final grade, and they offer you your best opportunity to develop and present your ideas about the material that we are studying.  Therefore, it is important to devote a good deal of time and effort to reading and understanding the question, developing a response, collecting relevant evidence, and presenting your ideas in a clear and convincing manner.  You should go through several drafts, ideally letting the paper sit for a day or so in between.

    Below you will find the questions on which you are write and some suggestions for maximizing the results of your labor.

How Should I Go About Reading the Essay Questions (with an example of how two questions were graded

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Information about Essays from Previous Semesters that Might Prove Useful