. Nineteen Eighty-Four has a number of themes that make the story rather complex upon deeper analysis

One of the common tasks in academia (and in life in general) is to uncover information and organize it into a coherent and well-reasoned argument. Nineteen Eighty-Four has a number of themes that make the story rather complex upon deeper analysis. Some of these themes include:

Abandonment/Loneliness

Death

Surveillance

Control/Manipulation

Task: Using the comments you received for Assignment 3, make revisions and improve the essay. You must continue to use a minimum of five sources (in MLA format), three of which have not been used in this course.

NOTE: SINCE LITERARY TEXTS ARE FICTIONAL AND DO NOT NECESSARILY PORTRAY REALITY ACCURATELY, LITERARY WORKS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE SOURCE MATERIAL.

Weight: 10%

Grading Emphasis: developing an effective subject; writing for appropriate occasion and audience; expressing ideas; spelling; critical analysis; clear statement of conflict and each side’s position; research and use of evidence; appropriate tone; sentence variety; consistent agreement; elimination of non-rhetorical fragments; effective ordering of ideas; effective resolution; punctuation (period, question and exclamation marks, colon, dash, ellipses, parentheses, brackets); formatting; elimination of second person; adoption of formal conventions (i.e., no contractions, using “one” and “we” rather than “I” or “you”); including citations