Instruction
Assignment Requirements:
Your essay should be 4-5 full double-spaced pages with 1’’ side margins, 1” header and footer margins, Times New Roman, 12 pt
Your introduction should end with a thesis that gives your readers a complex claim that explains how music is able to speak to or reflect a neighborhood, landscape, culture, or community in Los Angeles (depending on how you’ve decided to focus your essay).
You must integrate Josh Kun’s essay, “Los Angeles is Singing.” For your readers, you must accurately summarize the ideas, theories, terms, or concepts you are using from your source (making sure your summary is understandable to a reader who is not familiar with the source you’re introducing, but that summarizing does not take over your essay).
Your other evidence will come from your own descriptions of the songs (imagine readers don’t know them), quoting of lyrics (if there are any), and any accompanying source material that offers context to your soundtrack.
Your essay should engage in analysis of 3-4 songs using one of the foci listed in these directions.
Organize your essay around your own ideas/claims about how music represents L.A. (instead of organizing the essay song-by-song). Avoid turning your essay into a simple list of songs (“The first song I picked is…”).
Cite all sources in MLA format (in text), in addition to a Works Cited page. Use Purdue OWL (linked on Canvas) to look up proper MLA in-text citations and Works Cited formatting. You can also find how to cite songs, specifically, on Purdue OWL.
Proofread for mistakes and edit for clarity. Consider paragraph organization