- 12 point Times New Roman font
- Standard margins
Proper MLA-style formatting (header at the top left, including name, title centered below the header)
- Examples drawn from the texts you’ve read for the course (thoroughly explained and written in the essay)
- Proper MLA citation techniques.
BELOW ARE THE FOLLOWING PROMPTS TO CHOOSE FROM:
1.Several stories by Cory Doctorow that I’ve asked you to read are often shorter and less developed than the works by Mintzer, Valente, and Yang as well as some of Doctorow’s own work. Considering the structures of the short story we’ve discussed, examine whether or not they are short fiction in the same fashion as the latter writers or whether they constitute a new genre.
2.Pick two of the pieces, by different authors. Examine how they are similar and how they differ, using the terms we’ve talked about in class and during your discussion section. This is not simply explaining how the plots of each are different; instead, it should also consider structural elements such as conflict, character, and theme.
links associated for prompt one:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_09_14/
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_10_11/
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/tomorrow-is-waiting/
https://reason.com/2018/11/17/sole-and-despotic-dominion/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/if-dishwashers-were-iphones
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/affordances-cory-doctorow-sf-story-algorithmic-bias-facial-recognition.html
prompt 2 (can use authors above, plus the ones pasted below):
https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/