Formatting Supplement

GENERAL MATERIAL IN YOUR TEXTBOOK
There is, of course, excellent overall advice concerning writing about literature for different purposes and under different contexts in the Perrine text (3-16); that's why these pages were assigned at the beginning of the year.  But note especially Section VIII, concerning quotations (16-23); one overriding principle for the essays you're writing now is that you need to focus only on the exact material you need.  Introduce concisely; quote sparingly, honing in on the most crucial evidence in support of your claims.  Sections  X and XI are also useful reviews of material that you should know, and probably do, but are sometimes less than scrupulous in putting into practice.

DOCUMENTATION Section IX
1. Textual Documentation--Pay close attention to all of this part, but especially the list of reminders on pp. 24-25.  You are absolutely expected to adhere to these basic principles and guidelines. 
2. Parenthetical Documentation--note that what they're referring to here is what to do in papers that don't have a separate List of Works Cited.  This is what you'll do for the second paper.
3. Documentation by Works Cited--This is what you'll do for the first paper, but I'm going to direct you to one of two options that you would have even within a normal Works Cited page.

Here are the specifics, then.

CITATIONS
Another purpose of these paired short fiction essays is to practice different forms of citation.  Make sure you follow these instructions.

Essay I (Comparison/Contrast)
For this essay create two separate entries for your Works Cited page. This would be obvious if you're using the Kafka text as well as a story in Perrine, but it might not be your automatic choice if both stories come from the main textbook.  But for this essay, I want you to show that you understand this form.

Pattern:  See the Purdue OWL for this pattern: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/
Scroll specifically to the directions and samples for A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection.

(Yes, if both of your stories are in Perrine, there will be some duplicated typing here (but no, you aren't using an old type-writer--you can copy and paste!); obviously if  The Metamorphosis is one of your works, there would have to  be separate entries anyway. Each  (     ) citation will contain both author and page, e.g  (Baldwin 201).


Essay II (Single Work)
Whichever of the following situations applies to you, you will cite once using an in-text format.  All subsquent  (   ) citations will use the page number(s) ONLY.

If your story comes from the Perrine text, follow the examples given on p. 26 or in the short writing samples on p. 40 or 43.

If you are doing Kafka, follow the same pattern but obviously substitute the details of the book you have.