Editing the Essay – Part Two – nursing homework essays

Lesson Five
In this module you have reviewed: language conventions, citing sources using MLA format, avoiding plagiarism, and essay structure.
For this assignment you are required to read the following essay and evaluate its effectiveness as a formal literary essay. Look carefully at the authors use of language conventions, MLA citations, and essay structure, including its title, thesis, introduction, conclusion, endnotes and works cited.
You may wish to consider plagiarism issues, as well. For your convenience, the original source of the paraphrase cited as 1 was originally: Robertson Davies, ” Canada is America’s attic.” 1960, quoted in Letters in Canada, 426, Macmillan Press, Toronto, 1979.
Once you have read and evaluated the quality of this paper, rewrite it, making any appropriate corrections. When you are finished, write a brief note explaining some of your most important corrections and why you made them.
Hand in BOTH your rewritten essay and notes explaining the corrections you made and why.