Paper topic : I need a 5 page 12 pt don’t single spaced essay that illustrates w

Paper topic :
I need a 5 page 12 pt don’t single spaced essay that illustrates whether John Cassian’s vision of monastic life is applicable to today’s laity. Narrow the focus of the paper down to particular issues. The paper must not be driven mainly by outside resources but the textbooks I have listed at the bottom of the instructions. Outside resources are welcome but must be course textbooks mainly. ( Writer must have access to textbooks) because I only have the hard copies
Professor’s input of what the paper should intel:
It would be good to imagine your audience. Who will be listening to your ideas? How will they be able to use them? This topic is very general, and it would be good to narrow down to particular issues. It’s not necessary to begin with a broad and general overview of Cassian. That will take up too much room in a 5 page paper. Just the basics – who he was, when he lived, what his monastery was like.
Paper Guidelines:
Abide by the word count instructions (1800-2500 words is between 4-7 pages).
Please send a simple Word document, 12 point font, SINGLE-SPACED PLEASE. The assigned points, letter grade and my comments will appear in the response area of the Drop Box.
Writing tips:
Here are a few suggestions to help you construct a better paper.
Use the outline I am attaching with this note to organize your paper. Write the main body first, then write the introduction and conclusion. An academic paper is not a murder mystery – don’t make your reader wait until the end of the paper to find out “who did it.” The Introduction and Conclusion summarize the content of the paper.
Stick to the Primary Resources of the Course. Sprinkle Secondary Resources like salt and pepper – just to flavor your own thoughts and argument.
A very common mistake – don’t make it, please. Secondary Resources do not drive your paper, they don’t get quoted in isolation, especially one phrase put inside a sentence. Every resource needs a context – who wrote it, when, and why. And at least 3 lines to make sure you are actually quoting it correctly. A concluding and/or transition sentence ends a paragraph, not a quote. You are in the driver’s seat, not any other writer or thinker.
Footnotes are a classic, but trustworthy format for documenting citations. Scientists may interject names and page numbers into the body of the text, but when you are writing a narrative in a humanities field it is very disruptive to see them popping up everywhere. Just use the automatic numbering system in your Word program (“References-Footnotes”). Done and dusted, as the Irish say.
Enjoy the moment. There is a certain power and freedom to thinking for yourself, and creating something new.
Textbooks: (1) Cassian, John. The Institutes. Trans. B. Ramsey. Ancient Christian Writers 58. Pine Beach: Newman Press, 2000. Print.
(2) Benedict. The Rule. a. Benedict. The Rule of St. Benedict. Trans. A. Meisel and M.L. del Mastro. New York: Doubleday, 1975. Print.1 b. Benedict. RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict. Ed. Timothy Frye. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1980. Print. 2 c. Benedict. The Rule of St. Benedict. Ed. Timothy Frye. Vintage Spiritual Classics. New York: Random House, 1998. Print. 3
(3) Pseudo-Dionysius. Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works. Trans. Luibheid. The Classics of Western Spirituality. Costa Mesa: Paulist Press, 1987. Print.
(4) Bernard of Clairvaux. On Loving God. Cistercian Fathers. Vol 13B. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1995. Print.
(5) Bonaventure. Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Mind/Soul’s Journey into God). a. Works of St. Bonaventure. Eds. P. Boehner and Z. Hayes. Vol. 2. New York: Franciscan Institute, 2002. Print. 4 b. Bonaventure. Trans. E. Cousins. Classics of Western Spirituality. Costa Mesa: Paulist Press, 1978. Print. 5
(6) Merton, Thomas. New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: New Directions, 1961. Print. 6
(7) Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002. Print.
(8) The Collected Words of St. John of the Cross. Trans. K. Kavanaubh and O. Rodriquez. Revised edition. Islandia: ICS Publications, 1991. Print.