Continue working on your paper. Papers are due tomorrow in class.
1. After writing an intro defining Transcendentalism and its major themes, focus your own THESIS on its relevance to contemporary society.
2. Then, remember to discuss the central themes you are focusing on as they are written in the texts we have studied of Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau. Use text-based quotes to support your CLAIMS. Provide EXAMPLES from the texts. Cite MLA style or be sure to mention the documents you are using in the body text.
3. Finally, relate the Transcendentalists to a significant contemporary ISSUE. Are there contemporary writers or articles that make a connection between the Transcendentalists and our own times? What is essentially American and modern about the Transcendentalists?
4. And of course, finish with a conclusion and go back to your intro to revise and edit and strengthen your thesis.
Often the conclusion illuminates other aspects of your thesis that need to be included in the intro!
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