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E 2.1: Remembering An Event Essay
You must use our textbook, The St. Martin’s Guide, while developing your essay.
THE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT IS ON PAGE 35 IN ST. MARTIN’S GUIDE
The Basic Feature of this essay are on 15-18 in St. Martin’s Guide. These are critical features that must be present in every essay of this type.
Use the Guide to Writing (a step-by-step guide to writing your essay) on pages 35-53 in St. Martin’s Guide.
All the essays in the readings assigned for this module (in St. Martin’s Guide and Sticks and Stones) are models for you to use. Use them as examples of what you should do. Study how they use the basic features!
READ ALL THE REQUIREMENTS BELOW AS WELL!
Post your essays here as attachments in only .doc, .docx, or .pdf formats ONLY.
Your essay
must be carefully proofread and edited. They must be free of surface errors and use the English language carefully and proficiently. You may need to get help with this requirement. This course does not cover spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage etc. These concerns are extremely important but they are not part of our course material (they are generally considered prior to college and are not a part of college level instruction). Help with these issues can be gotten from your campus writing center free of charge. I strongly recommend you take your essays to your writing center prior to submitting.
A minimum word count of 1250 words–this is typically a page count of 5 full pages. (Your essays must be 5-7 pages.)
Essays must be DOUBLE SPACED, 12 PT. FONT, Times New Roman Font, 1? MARGINS all around, and BLACK font color)
ESSAYS MUST BE WELL REVISED TO MEET THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE ESSAY.
All essays are sub

mitted in the dropbox area as attachments in only .doc, .docx, or .pdf formats. For more on using the dropbox see the STUDENT ORIENTATION.
As you work, keep in mind these guidelines for essay writing:
Work on a word processor. Save your entry on your computer with a name that you will recognize. As you work, save the piece every five lines or five minutes. After the entry is complete and saved on your word processor, you will attach it to the appropriate assignment area. FOLLOW THIS GUIDELINE! Nothing is worse than drafting a post only to find that your computer has frozen and it is lost. Create and save often on your computer in your word processing program then attach it to the assignment document in our course.
When you save your work, save it in ..doc, .docx, or .pdf format. Later in this course, you will be attaching your essays for me to read in the dropbox.
Edit your work carefully using the word processor tools (spelling and grammar), your own knowledge, and, if necessary, the help of good or professional writers(professional writing help is available for free in the writing skills center on your campus). Unedited work (work that is full of errors) is unacceptable in this class. Submitting unedited work regularly will cause you to fail the class. (After all folks, this is a college-level writing class.)
Between each draft (and you will usually need to produce at least 3 drafts) you must revise the essay so that the content of the essay becomes stronger. Follow the Basic Features (in chapters in ST. Martin’s Guide) for each essay. Bringing out these features is the main goal of your revisions.
Our goal is to create CLEAN, PROFESSIONAL DRAFTS…WELL-POLISHED.