Formatting Guidelines
1. Header: provide a header in the top left hand corner, double-spaced, with your name, the professor’s name, the course (ENGL 1302-189), the prompt number (Prompt # ____), and the date.
Name
Professor’s Name
English 1302-189
Prompt # ____
11 April 2024
2. Title: provide a succinct but specific title in a phrase or two. The title should be clear and grab the reader’s attention without being vague or too general. Center the title at the top of the first page but below the header. Capitalize the title correctly.
3. Paragraphs: The essay should have MULTIPLE PARAGRAPHS; thus, the rough draft should have a minimum of three paragraphs.
4. Thesis: Provide a clear, effective thesis that conveys your central idea and answers the prompt.
5. Spacing: Use double-spacing throughout the essay, including the header.
6. Margins: one-inch margins at the top, bottom, left, and right.
7. Length: THREE FULL PAGES (minimum). 
8. Font: Times New Roman, twelve-point font.
9. Style: Formal style using standard English. Do not use contractions (isn’t and aren’t, for example), cliches, or slang. Use complete sentences. Do not use pronouns with unclear referents (this or that as nouns, for example). Use the third-person. Do not use the second-person “you” or  “I” (“I think that” or “I feel that”).
10. Pagination: Provide a page number in the top right hand corner of each page. 
Prompt:
Compare the grandmother in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” with Mabel Beasley in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh.” In your view, do these characters play a similar role in the respective stories? How or how not? Does either of these characters change or undergo a transformation? Explain.