Compare Thomas Paine’s Common Sense with Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

More Know –How’s: Title of your paper: not in bold, not underlined, not in quotations. Present tense Writer vs. speaker- The writer cannot say. The writer writes. You would not say: Hughes says to his instructor that they are alike. Hughes is the writer of the poem, but he is not necessarily the speaker. The speaker is the one who says he and the instructor are the same. Same thing with a story: the writer is not the narrator or a character. Do not say: Faulkner says that Emily is a fallen monument. Instead say: Faulkner uses the narrator to reveal that the town views Emily as a “fallen monument.” And do not write that the story says. A story cannot say or write itself. Comma Rule: Place commas around words that interrupt the flow of a sentence (nonrestrictive elements). Do not use comas when the information is important