ENGL 124 Cuyamaca College Love Lance Essay

Be personal. Narrate your own story/experience in first person, cultivate voice

Set up the text, context and approach in a way that allows you to enter the conversation

Use at least one class/college/life idea or moment as a “touchstone” – a foundation for your inquiry

Explore the larger contextual elements (moment in history, geography, age, situation…)

Possess a controlling idea, but also be creative, organic, logical – not formulaic

Be honest and accurate – identify and name your ideas, places, moments, setting

Possess a thoughtful, creative conclusion – good essay have striking beginnings and endings

Include quoted credible sources (writers, current voices, critics, peers…)

Use an epigraph to creatively contextualize your contribution to the conversation (see Wilde quote)