Floridiana:  People and the Environment
  Paper Four is due in Class Ten. It should be four to five pages in length, double-spaced, typed.  Your paper shall be evaluated according to the criteria presented by the assessment rubric and by your section instructor.

The reading for this paper is a book of your choice about Florida fiction or nonfiction. Please include a complete citation of the book, title, author, city of publication, publisher, and copyright year.  Your instructor may ask you to turn the book in with the paper.

The assignment is designed to allow you the opportunity to make  progress, in your own way, toward the course goal of enhancing your “sense of place.”  In this paper, you are to articulate a thesis regarding the relationship between people and the environment in the book.  The articulation of the thesis is the most important dimension of the essay.  Be sure you have a clear thesis that you can defend.  Report on the main ideas in the book by developing this thesis.

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