Assignment 2 Brief, UALL2024 1

Assignment 2 Brief
UALL2024 Malaysian Literature in English
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) English Education
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) English Language
Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

Assignment 2 Literary Analysis Essay (Individual work, 25%)

1 Due by 5 pm on Friday in week 10.

Upload a virus-free soft copy in a Word document to the UALL2024 page of the
Web-Based Learning Environment (WBLE) of UTAR.

File Name: “Programme Full Name Tutorial Assignment”

E.g., “ED Asokan Vasudevan T2 A2” or “EL Afi Abdullah bin
Muhamad Yousof T3 A2”

2 Each of you is to write a literary analysis essay in three to five pages (12-point
Times New Roman, double-spaced, one-inch margins) on a Malayan/Malaysian
short story originally written in English.

You are to use literary terminology or a critical theory in your analysis. Before
using a concept or term, you should introduce and explain it with proper citation.

Include a thesis statement (interpretation) and at least three (3) main points (that
support the interpretation) with their textual evidence and commentaries.

The text of the story should be a reliable source, preferably with its original or
initial publication, cited in the latest edition of APA or MLA style.

3 Do not analyse:

• A Malayan/Malaysian literary text already covered in class.

• A Malayan/Malaysian literary text translated into English. For instance, a work
by A. Samad Said or Usman Awang.
• A Malayan/Malaysian literary text that has been included in the literary
component of school curricula, including those covered at primary, secondary
and tertiary educational institutions.
• Non-fiction (such as essays, history, memoirs and journalistic writing)
• A literary work in English composed by a Singaporean after 1965, for example,
by Catherine Lim or Suchen Christine Lim.
• A text by an expatriate in Malaya/Malaysia, e.g., by Robert Raymer.

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4 Refer to
Caulfield, J. (2022, September 2). How to write a literary analysis essay | A step-by-step

guide. Scribbr. https://www.scribbr.com/academic-essay/literary-analysis/

5 Give an in-depth analysis with relevant textual evidence and commentaries. Do not write
generally about different aspects of your chosen story without a central argument or
interpretation.

6 Do not quote frequently or use block quotations. You can paraphrase or summarise the
literary text.

7 Plagiarising ideas or phrases as your own is a very serious crime in academic research
and will lead to a fail in the assignment. Do not take from a source more than five
consecutive words without inverted commas and a proper citation.

UTAR Cover Page (before the Essay)

• Name of University
• Name of Faculty
• Name of Course and Course Code
• Assignment 2 – Literary Analysis
• Name and Student ID of group members (Include your digital signature of
acknowledgement)
• Programme of study
• Tutorial Group
• Name of Tutor

For the layout of the essay in the 7th Edition of APA style, which comes with an APA cover
page, see the “Student Paper Setup Guide”:
https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/student-paper-setup-guide.pdf

For a student sample paper (DOCX, 36KB) in the latest edition of APA style, see
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/student-paper.docx

For annotations on the citations of the student sample paper, see

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/student-annotated.pdf

For use of the nineth edition of MLA style, refer to

https://style.mla.org/works-cited/works-cited-a-quick-guide/ or

https://style.mla.org/sample-papers/

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Assessment Scheme on the Second Assignment

Plagiarism Fail for taking an idea or phrase from a source or someone else without any
proper citations; for using someone else’s idea or wording as your thesis
(argument/interpretation); for taking an idea from others and putting it as a main
idea in a topic sentence; for giving the context of your chosen work or
introducing your chosen author’s life and work without citation.

Content (C) 15 marks (5 marks for the thesis [argument/interpretation], 5 marks for

topic sentences, 5 marks for textual evidence)

Language (L) 5 marks (with 5 as excellent and 1 as weak in grammar and word usage)

Documentation (D) 5 marks (2.5 marks for in-text citations; 2.5 marks for end-of-text citations)

25 marks in total

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