Marnie Ellis College Research Writing: Assignment 2

• Does your essay clearly establish your criteria for a successful film adaptation?  Is your assessment of this version, as well as your dialogue with the other contemporary reviewers, clear from your thesis?  Do you effectively compare and contrast the three reviews with your own opinion of the film?

• Are the claims easily linked to the thesis?  Does the organization suit your purposes and is it easy to follow?  How convincing and surprising are your conclusions? Are your arguments sufficiently developed?

• Have you provided sufficient textual evidence from both the film and the three contemporary reviews to support your claims?  Have you shown how your examples back up your argument instead of requiring readers to draw conclusions on their own?   Does the essay avoid retelling the novel and include only the pieces of information which relate directly to its argument?

• Have you avoided errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and documentation?

Consider your classmates and your instructor as the audience for this essay.

Completed essay must be 900-1100+ words long, in 12pt Times New Roman, and follow MLA format throughout (including your works cited page).

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Cite information from all of the reviews, as well as specific details/dialogue/etc from the film adaptation, and you may need to cite specific details from the novel The Haunting of Hill House as well.