Chinese literature

 Essay The penalty for lateness is minus 2% off the grade for the essay per day late. The length is a minimum of 1500 words (approx. 5-6 pages, double spaced with one inch margins and a 12 pt. font). You will be graded 25% for language (spelling, grammar); 25% for form (organization, clarity of argument); 25% for ideas (points being made); and 25% for analysis (supporting ideas with the text). See the rubric on Quercus for more detailed information. This essay is about your interpretation of the text; it is not a research paper. The only sources you are allowed to use are the textbook, your lecture notes, and two other sources, either online or in print. For suggestions of other sources, see p. 1153 in the Owen anthology, p. 1105 in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, or the bibliographies for individual articles and chapters in The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, and The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. To find suitable sources, you may consult online databases such as “The Bibliography of Asian Studies” and JSTOR. You may use Wikipedia to guide you to academic sources, but do not cite Wikipedia itself as a source. Only use scholarly online sources, not blogs or discussion forums. You may use sources in Chinese, but you must translate anything you quote from them into English in your essay (and put the original Chinese in a footnote). Please check to make sure your paper is free of spelling and grammatical errors. If you are uncertain, have someone read it over for you to suggest changes that you will make yourself. For extra help, see “Writing at the University of Toronto”. Refer to its list of writing centres, whose staff will help you to develop your capacity to plan, organize, write, and revise academic papers. Do not have someone else write any part of the paper for you, buy it from an essay service or copy any part o f the paper from another source (including the Internet) without proper citation; this would be plagiarism, an academic offense that will be reported to the Office of Student Academic Integrity. Talk to me or the TAs beforehand if you have any questions or doubts about your paper.