ENGL 103: Composition and Critical Thinking Writing Task 1 / Student Samples A Note on Student Rough Drafts:The selected works are rough drafts.They are not finished products.While this writing presents a combination of problems with grammatical errors, sentence structure, word choice, argument structure, and/or MLA Style (handling quotations and in-text citations), Samples 1, 2, and 3 are examples of student work moving toward synthesis: creating a formalist response to the poems assigned in ENGL 103. Read through the samples.How do the samples model good writing?What parts of the writing requires revision? Sample 1: Facing the Facts According to theNorton Introduction to Literature, "a character is one of the imaginary people who take part in the action of a play" (Mays 1180). However, a character’s function is not simply to perform actions that advance the plot of a literary work, but to provide meaning through the performance of those actions to the literary work as a whole – to illustrate a theme.This is the case in the play by Tennessee Williams,The Glass Menagerie. The characters of Tom and Amanda give voice to the overarching theme ofThe Glass Menagerieof the contrast that exists between illusion and reality. Although many differences exist between the characters of Tom and Amanda, they share some common characteristics as well. Both Tom and Amanda resent the situation they find themselves in of being abandoned by Mr. Wingfield and having to struggle financially because of his absence. Tom resents his responsibility to his mother and sister as the primary breadwinner of the family, “You think I’m in love with the Continental Shoemakers? [...]Every time you come in yelling that God damn ‘Rise and Shine!’ ‘Rise and Shine’I say to myself, ‘Howlucky dead
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