{"id":11586,"date":"2023-09-15T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/?page_id=11586"},"modified":"2023-09-15T17:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:22:01","slug":"fall-essay-assignment-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/history-and-archives\/2022-2023-writing-and-research\/fall-essay-assignment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall: Essay Assignment 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Literary Analysis of Worldbuilding in Boccaccio\u2019s <em>Decameron<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/F22-Essay-2-Grading-Rubric.pdf\"><i class=\"fa fa-file fa-2x;\"><!-- icon --><\/i> Downloadable Essay Rubric<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conduct a close reading of a story from Wayne Rebhorn\u2019s abridged translation of Boccaccio\u2019s <em>Decameron<\/em>. Consult the other stories of the day in which your selected story is told as provided in our edition, as well as the introduction and conclusion if available. Construct an interpretive thesis about how this story relates to a larger theme of the day, or of the <em>Decameron<\/em> as a whole, and provide specific textual evidence from the passage to support your argument. As you develop your ideas and claims, consider the following questions: How are meanings and themes created by Boccaccio\u2019s imagery and figurative devices as well as his translator\u2019s choices in diction and syntax? Why and how do literary features of the story\u2014including narration, character, setting, and plot\u2014help the narrator to build their storyworld? How does the story\u2019s style and mode (i.e., its attitude, approach, or mood) contribute to its particular storyworld? Does this story ask its audience to reflect on the way worlds and stories are built or constructed, either in Boccaccio\u2019s time or our own?<\/p>\n<p>Your final paper will be about 4\u20135 pages in length and will be worth 35% of your writing grade. For the purposes of this assignment, you will treat Rebhorn\u2019s translation of Boccaccio\u2019s <em>Decameron<\/em> as the primary source.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i class=\"fa fa-check-square-o fa-2x;\"><\/i> Learning Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make specific, complex, arguable claims<\/li>\n<li>Produce unified, cohesive body paragraphs that contain arguable topic sentences, well-selected and properly-integrated evidence from the primary source, and rhetorically-effective introduction, conclusion, and transitions between ideas<\/li>\n<li>Adopt the appropriate stance, style, and genre conventions of literary analysis (close reading, narrative, stylistic, and figurative analysis, and part-to-whole connections)<\/li>\n<li>Develop summarization, paraphrase, and quotation skills<\/li>\n<li>Practice process-oriented writing and learn flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading drafts while also reflecting on the process of writing itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i class=\"fa fa-eye fa-2x;\"><!-- icon --><\/i> Required Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must read the following to successfully navigate the writing process of this assignment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -3em; margin-left: 3em;\">Boccaccio, Giovanni. Selections from <em>The Decameron<\/em>. Translated and edited by Wayne Rebhorn, Norton, 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -3em; margin-left: 3em;\">Shemek, Deanna. \u201cGenre and Mode.\u201d <em>Humanities Core Handbook: Worldbuilding<\/em> <em>2022\u20132023<\/em>, XanEdu, 2022, pp. 104\u201313.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -3em; margin-left: 3em;\">Garceau, Ben. \u201cLiterary Analysis and Close Reading.\u201d <em>Humanities Core Handbook: Worldbuilding 2022\u20132023<\/em>, XanEdu, 2022, pp. 114\u201326.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -3em; margin-left: 3em;\">Beauchamp, Tamara. \u201cEvaluating Essay Organization and Transitions.\u201d <em>Humanities Core Handbook: Worldbuilding 2022\u20132023<\/em>, XanEdu, 2022, pp. 127\u201337.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Analysis of Worldbuilding in Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron &nbsp; Downloadable Essay Rubric Assignment Conduct a close reading of a story from Wayne Rebhorn\u2019s abridged translation of Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron. 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