Students will choose one of their poetry posts and develop it into a position paper that focuses on one poem (or a work of verse) that you have already chosen. Students are welcome to bring in other selected poems into their essays in order to help support their main argument or supporting claims, but they should make one poem the overall focus of their paper. The paper should adhere to the following requirements:

• 3-5 pages in length (at least three whole pages of writing)
• Several paragraphs that are organized and interconnected  
• Double-spacing 
• 12-point New Times Roman text or another acceptable font (nothing larger or smaller)
• MLA style format (Links to an external site.)
• Works cited page that lists the textbook reader (no outside sources required)

What is a position paper