Other sources

In your analytical essay, you must include references to at least two other sources. One of them is “Huckleberry …

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Huckleberry Finn and the N-word debate

“Huckleberry Finn and the N-word debate” is a video from the CBS News show ‘60 minutes’, published in 2011.

In the video, the anchor, Byron Pitts, interviews various people on the topic of the new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn targeting schools that have removed the book from the curriculum because of Mark Twain’s use of an offensive word — ‘nigger’.

Byron Pitts states that Mark Twain’s book has been censored and banned ever since it was published and that the trend continues today. He discusses the new version of the book with Randall Williams, one of the owners of the publishing house that issued the revised version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this version, the word ‘nigger’ was replaced with the word ‘slave’.

Williams acknowledges that some people consider this version a form of censorship, but he argues that the book is meant to be an alternative for those schools that do not want to have the d…

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Text from the internet

In this type of exam, you must include 1-2 other sources from the internet. We recommend that you should settle on just finding one. Be careful that finding additional sources does not take up too much of your time: analyzing the main text should be your main focus.

You can use Google to find texts that deal with the topic. We recommend you find a blog post or an article from a reputable online news outlet that is not too long or complicated. Maybe you can even find a relevant link from one of the texts that are already in the exam material.

Remember to add a precise link to the source in a footnote in your paper, like we have done below.

How Censorship Shapes Literature

For this part of the study guide, we recommend the article “How Censorship Shapes Literature” written by Robert Darnton and published on the website of The Huffington Post in 2014 [1].

The article discusses censorship in his…

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