Essay Instructions and Prompt

Due: Friday, May 1st.

**Do not consult anything other than your reading materials and the Oxford English Dictionary. Do not go online to look for summaries, guides, or other materials.

Read the selections from both Walter Ralegh’s The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (pages 815-821) and Amerigo Vespucci’s “Letter to Lorenzo di Medici” in their entirety.

Using textual evidence from both texts, write an argumentative essay of literary analysis that is three full pages long, formatted as follows: Times New Roman 12pt font; one-inch margins all around; double-spaced with no extra spacing between paragraphs; page numbers in the top right corner; and name, date, course, etc. in the top left. Include an original title that gives a sense of the findings of your analysis contained in your thesis.

You do not need to include a works cited page. When quoting from Ralegh, include the page number only in parentheses; when quoting from Vespucci include only the author’s name in parentheses, like this (Vespucci).

Prompt:

Ralegh’s and Vespucci’s texts each give their account of Europeans’ voyages to the Americas and what they found there. The objective of these voyages was to colonize these territories for financial gain. Analyze these texts carefully and write an essay explaining the texts’ rhetorical strategies to make the lands, peoples, and resources of the Americas attractive to other potential colonial adventurers. Put another way, compare how the two texts advertise the financial promise of colonizing the places, peoples, and things they describe in their accounts and make an argument explaining how their strategies concur or differ. Be specific.

And these are my requirements:

1. Write more explaining about the sentence you quote: explaining the words, ideas(this is a key place to write more sentence to expand the essay and make more observation about the evidence)

2.Using Oxford English dictionary to look for the words you quote(because these words might have surprising meaning)

3. Do not consult anything other than your reading materials and the Oxford English Dictionary. Do not go online to look for summaries, guides, or other materials.

Essay Instructions and Prompt

Due: Friday, May 1st.

**Do not consult anything other than your reading materials and the Oxford English Dictionary. Do not go online to look for summaries, guides, or other materials.

Read the selections from both Walter Ralegh’s The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (pages 815-821) and Amerigo Vespucci’s “Letter to Lorenzo di Medici” in their entirety.

Using textual evidence from both texts, write an argumentative essay of literary analysis that is three full pages long, formatted as follows: Times New Roman 12pt font; one-inch margins all around; double-spaced with no extra spacing between paragraphs; page numbers in the top right corner; and name, date, course, etc. in the top left. Include an original title that gives a sense of the findings of your analysis contained in your thesis.

You do not need to include a works cited page. When quoting from Ralegh, include the page number only in parentheses; when quoting from Vespucci include only the author’s name in parentheses, like this (Vespucci).

Prompt:

Ralegh’s and Vespucci’s texts each give their account of Europeans’ voyages to the Americas and what they found there. The objective of these voyages was to colonize these territories for financial gain. Analyze these texts carefully and write an essay explaining the texts’ rhetorical strategies to make the lands, peoples, and resources of the Americas attractive to other potential colonial adventurers. Put another way, compare how the two texts advertise the financial promise of colonizing the places, peoples, and things they describe in their accounts and make an argument explaining how their strategies concur or differ. Be specific.

And these are my requirements:

1. Write more explaining about the sentence you quote: explaining the words, ideas(this is a key place to write more sentence to expand the essay and make more observation about the evidence)

2.Using Oxford English dictionary to look for the words you quote(because these words might have surprising meaning)

3. Do not consult anything other than your reading materials and the Oxford English Dictionary. Do not go online to look for summaries, guides, or other materials.

Please follow the prompt to write it!

I attached one reading and the rubric

I will send you the other reading when the question is assigned