Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the Types of Conflict Found in Literature document, read Chapters 4 through 6 of Journey into Literature, choose a story from the textbook, and review the List of Literary Techniques (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. For additional assistance, review the Evaluating Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. tutorial, the Scholarly and Popular Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video.

Reflect: All stories have a theme that forms the plot. Also, literary elements and techniques contribute to creating and highlighting the theme. Reflect on the theme and literary elements and techniques in “Piropo” by Leticia del Toro in Chapter 5 of your textbook.

• Describe the core conflict represented in the story.
• Describe the theme of the story.
• Select three literary elements/techniques in the story and describe them. If needed, review the List of Literary Techniques (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Explain how the elements/techniques illustrate the theme and conflict expressed in the story.
• Incorporate quotations and paraphrases found in the story to illustrate the points you make. For help on writing paraphrases and quotations, review the Ashford University Writing Center’s tutorial Integrating Research (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and the Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. web page.

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. The minimum word count does not include references.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the Evaluating Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. tutorial and the Scholarly and Popular Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video.

By now, you have chosen the short story you will write about for your final essay. As you prepare your Annotated Bibliography this week, you may be wondering what secondary sources are and which ones are appropriate to this assignment.The short answer is: scholarly journal research articles.The longer answer is:You need to locate, read, and annotate two scholarly research articles about your short story (this may include research about specific literary elements, themes, or genres involving your story of choice).

This means several things:

• The sources need to be appropriate to the discipline you are working in—literary studies.
• The sources need to come from scholarly journals in that field.
• The sources need to be about the story itself (or about its elements, themes, or genre; i.e., not about a social studies, history, or psychology topic).

Prepare:

1. On the Ashford University Library site, see if you can find a scholarly source about your story. Try a few different searches. It is OK if you do not exactly succeed just yet, but note three different searches you tried, including any search terms or limiters you used, and what you found.
2. Then, open a live chat session (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. with one of the librarians.

In your chat, ask the librarian to help you start locating a scholarly source for your essay. Note: the librarians are not providing you with sources.

• Tell them what you are doing (a literary analysis essay for ENG 125).
• Ask them for any help you need on the three “The sources need to be” ideas above.
• Ask them to guide you through search term use and database searches.
• Before you finish your chat session, e-mail a transcript to yourself by clicking on the envelope icon below the chat box.

You will need to read the article that the librarians help you search for to be sure it is relevant to the story you are writing about. That is what you will do for the Annotated Bibliography due later this week. The librarians can help you search a source and determine that it is relevant to the assignment. Use what you have learned in your library chat to find your second scholarly article on your own.

Write: In your post, share:

• The short story you are writing about.
• The three searches you tried on the Library website (include all search terms you used).
• The full title of one article you located that might work for your essay, along with the required APA bibliographic entry information (e.g., author, journal, etc.).
• Explain how you determined this article was appropriate to this assignment and your essay topic.
• Reflect on your experience using the Library Live Chat feature. What did you learn from the librarian? What was different about searching using Library Live Chat versus how you initially performed your research?

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length