Typed, double-spaced, 12-point font; MLA formatting (see the section in your textbooks for a sample essay in MLA format; see also the Purdue OWLhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ (Links to an external site.)). Your works cited page should have an entry for each work you cite. Refer to your text and the Purdue OWL for the format for citing essays, short stories, and poems. Every source you consult and use in your essay–including websites, search results, reference material, material from your textbook, etc.–must have an in-text citation and a works cited entry. Your primary purpose will be to inform, and your secondary purpose will be to persuade. You will be informing your audience about the issues and ideas you are encountering in your coursework for this class, about the social issue, and about the connection. You will be using persuasion to convince the audience that you are an engaged student and citizen. You will do this primarily through the appeal to ethos by establishing your credibility and authority through your mastery of the material.
Explain how Ambrose Bierce tricks the reader into thinking that Farquhar escapes in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Are individuals susceptible to “against all odds” thinking because we want to think that we can be successful even in hopeless circumstances?
