1) 1000 word essay in response to the prompt attached. essay must be carefully written and the question fully answered. fram the answer in a clear and succinct thesis statement, expressed in one or two sentences in the first paragraph of the essay, and then show that your thesis calims are valid through a clear and persuasive argument, supported with evidence drawn from the source text. 2) essay must clearly state its thesis in a few sentences in the first paragraph. See the discussion of a thesis in the first essay assignment, but basically the thesis is the main argument that the essay will make. In this case, the thesis should answer the question posed in the writing prompt. 3) essay must make use of direct primary source evidence from the assigned reading and from secondary sources (such as your textbook) when appropriate. Note that all claims that are not simply “common knowledge” must be supported with a quotation or a citation. See the discussion of evidence in the first essay assignment. 4) Argument: The body of essay must consist of a series of well-structured paragraphs that make a clear, logical, well-supported argument. This argument must correspond to the thesis in the first paragraph, and show that the thesis is valid (it is supported by the evidence, it conforms with what we know about history, it is not biased or logically flawed. 5) Form of Citations: Because your source texts for this are very short, your citations can be very simple. At the end of the sentence in which you have information that you would like referenced, just put a parenthesis containing the document’s author (or its title if the text is anonymous) and a number corresponding to the page or section of the document to which the citation refers. If a selection lacks numbered sections, just use the author alone. Quoted text must be set off in quotation marks, and the sentence must be followed with an appropriate parenthetical citation. Thus, a quotation might look like this: “When the gods created Gilgamesh they gave him a perfect body” (Epic of Gilgamesh, 1).