Posted: April 1st, 2015

Youland

Youland

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Paper #2

Question:

Imagine that How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia is the only book you’ve ever read about the country where the novel takes place. The country is unnamed in the novel, so call it “Youland.” A friend is about to visit Youland, they know you’ve read this book, so they ask you to tell them about it. Write a 5-page introduction to Youland for your friend to read on the plane.

Formal Guidelines:

The paper should be 5 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins. No title, cover page, or bibliography are necessary, and please do not restate the question at the top of the paper.

When citing from the book, which you should do, please do not use conventional footnotes. Instead, simply place the page number for the passage you are quoting in parentheses. The page number should come from the original pagination and not the page number in the course pack.

Example: “Your city is not laid out as a single-celled organism, with a wealthy nucleus surrounded by an ooze of slums” (20).

note that the parentheses come after the quotation, but before the punctuation mark ending the sentence or the phrase (comma, semicolon, colon, period, etc.).

IMPORTANT NOTE: you’ll probably use the main character’s life and experiences as your main examples in the description of “Youland.” But because this novel is written in the second person, you might find it difficult to refer to the character in the third person. When describing the character, refer to him as “Mr. You.” This will avoid confusion, especially in constructions like the possessive (it’ll be “Mr. You’s life” instead of “your life.”)