Analysis paper #1: Candide - ENGL 1600 - K. Kulzer-Reyes

Assignment Details: Candide

Read Literary Criticism before you begin writing your paper

In this paper you will

Synthesize secondary sources, literary criticisms or background materials, into a discussion of primary literary texts
Support interpretations of literary texts with detailed analysis of the text itself
Create and defend a thesis
Identify themes in literature and explore them in written analysis
Use secondary sources to support your ideas
Demonstrate understanding of appropriate academic discourse and the conventions of literary analysis

Write 4-6 pages
Develop critical thinking skills with literature
Use MLA Style, 9th edition
Include a minimum of three and a maximum of five logical fallacies in your examples and analysis.
- each logical fallacy examples needs a page of explanation
Three outside academic sources, such as articles and chapters of books from the Literature Resource Center database and the Taft College library book collection, and the novella you are reading.

The two databases below will have literary criticisms in article and book chapter formats.

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
JSTOR
JSTOR contains the full-text of more than 2,300 journals from 1,000 publishers, with publication dates ranging from 1665 to 2015 (for certain titles). Journals are available in more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and mathematics.

The eBooks below offer chapters on Voltaire and Candid: