WRITING 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Modern Language Association, Thesis Statement
28 Jan 2016
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Writing 101: literature of the black diaspora 28 january 2016 lecture 5. {folder resources upload draft to the workshop folder **in addition to dropbox**} Limit scope of the essay (focus on a few scenes: not the whole book, not just one) Make claim based on engagement to literary devices. Cite page number and mla bibliography at the end. Project i prompt: offer a 4-5 double-spaced page textual analysis that considers how aim . C saire"s play a tempest intervenes in western constructions of power. You may choose to focus on certain characters or on themes including colonialism and language. The goal of this project is to help you move from making observation about a literary text to articulating interpretations supported by textual evidence. You will do this by analyzing the play"s language and formal feature, (ie. word choice, syntax, structure, tone, literary devices etc. ) to put forward a claim bout its meaning.
