ENGL1301 Memoir About a Meaningful Image Essay

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ENGL1301 Memoir About a Meaningful Image Essay

Audience: Adults looking for insightful analysis about a meaningful image

Detailed Instructions/Steps:

1. Compose a title, a short introduction paragraph, two well-developed paragraphs that analyze the image, and a short conclusion paragraph.

  • Your introduction paragraph should…
  • identify the image and its creator in an interesting way
  • explain how it fits the theme
  • provide a brief summary of the miner’s situation.
  • Each body paragraph should…
  • be well-developed with specific, in-depth thinking
  • begin with a topic sentence that states your main idea – in other words, your opinion that the rest of the paragraph will support, not just a fact
  • focus on supporting the topic sentence
  • (hint for possible organization: One paragraph can focus on the miners writing the note below ground. The second paragraph can focus on the people above ground who receive the note.)
  • Your conclusion paragraph should…
  • provide closure for your essay
  • avoid bringing up new supporting ideas or just repeating your thesis statement

2. Include a Works Cited entry at the end of your essay.

Photograph from publication:

Last Name, First Name. Photograph Title. Year Created. Museum/Collection Name, City. Publication Information.

Book:

Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of chapter or section.” Title of the work, translated by or edited by First name Last name, vol. number, City of Publication*, Publisher, Year the book was published,