This document provides an agenda and instructions for an English class. It includes an exam on terms, a presentation on how to write a response to literature, and in-class writing time. Students are assigned to write a 4-6 page thesis-driven essay responding to a prompt about the novel Stone Butch Blues. The document provides four potential essay topics and outlines how to develop a thesis, select evidence, and structure the essay. It also gives homework which is to begin reading M Butterfly and post a draft outline and sections for their essay response.
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Foundations 111 Fall 2013
Thesis-Driven Essay Two
Context
We continue to explore a wide variety of arguments in FDN111—about, for instance, how and how not to govern (Antigone,
Machiavelli, Hobbes), how to achieve self-knowledge (Plato, Augustine, Wordsworth), what it means to be a Christian (Paul,
Augustine, Luther) or a hero (Homer, Chretien de Troyes), how humans behave with no laws (Hobbes), and about how to achieve
greater equality between the sexes (Wollstonecraft). Understanding the arguments we read about, and the arguments we
encounter every day, is key to engaging with the world around us. It is also fundamental to your college and post-college
education and career, in whatever field you choose to pursue.
Goals
To practice defending a claim
To practice reading a text closely for full comprehension
To practice using examples and evidence to support assertions
To build critical thinking and writing skills through the exploring, outlining, drafting, revising process
To practice editing and proofreading
Assignment TDE 2A: Exploratory writing
The second thesis driven essay (TDE 2) will raise the expectations a little higher in two ways: (1) you will be expected to defend a
thesis comparing two of the selections in the Fdn 111 reader, and (2) you will be expected to explore this topic at a little greater
length (1500 words minimum vs. 1200 for TDE 1).
One problem that students often encounter in writing longer papers is that they find it difficult to write at greater length without
repeating themselves or having to bring in evidence and arguments that are weak or marginally relevant (if not completely
irrelevant). Hopefully from this course you have learned several strategies that you can use both to make a more persuasive
argument and to write papers that are longer because they investigate the topic in greater depth. These strategies include:
Finding and summarizing specific evidence from the texts you are discussing (or other types of evidence depending on
the subject matter), and being sure not just to paraphrase or quote the text but also to explain how this evidence relates
to your thesis.
Including material that establishes ethos and pathos, in addition to the logos (i.e. logic) you use to support your thesis
with specific evidence. (As we have seen in the readings, these are often a focus of the introduction and conclusion. In
these sections you should think about not just relating your specific thesis to a broader context, but also think about how
you can do this in a way that will make your readers more willing to be persuaded by the logic of your argument.)
Carefully describing and explaining counter evidence that appears to contradict your thesis, and then explaining how you
can reconcile this evidence with the thesis.
Carefully describing alternative theses, describing and explaining evidence that could support these alternatives, and then
evaluat.
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The annotated bibliography is an assignment to be completed in preparation for Essay 3 - the research paper.
Once you have completed your research proposal and settled on a topic for your research paper, it's time to begin conducting research for your paper.
The annotated bibliography helps you keep track of the material you find. It will also allow your instructor to gauge your progress, assess if your sources are appropriate, and determine if you have a basic understanding of MLA documentation.
For this assignment, you will need to submit information about two (2) of your sources - but it is recommended that, for your own purposes, you keep a record for each source you encounter.
At the top of your page, after your MLA heading, please post your topic and focusing question (refer to Unit 3 content notes as needed). Then proceed with the following information for each entry (2 total):
a bibliographic entry for the source according to MLA format
a brief note about how you located the source: did you find this source in person at the library, electronically, or otherwise? what terms did you use to locate the source, etc.
information about the source's author: who is the author? how is the author credible? You may need to do additional research on the author or organization responsible for the source to find out more about him/her/them/it, their credentials, etc. [This information will prove helpful because in your research paper's text, when introducing a source, it is good form to use a signal phrase that introduces the author to add credibility to your argument (as in, "According to John Doe, who is a professor at Harvard University, ...)]
a brief summary of what the source says (main ideas)
a reflection: how do you think you will use this source? How will this source help you support your own argument? How did it shape your own opinion, if at all? What are the source's strengths and weaknesses?
Here is a sample entry:
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Writing the Term Paper
PHIL1120 Environmental Ethics
Instructor Bearden
Fall 2011
Contents:
1. How do I select a topic for a philosophy paper? (1)
2. What is a thesis statement? (2)
3. Using outside sources (4)
4. Possible paper topics (6)
How do I select a topic for a philosophy paper?
All students are expected to write one term paper on a relevant topic in the course that
considers a philosophical position or contemporary environmental issue in detail. Papers
should be 5-6 pages in length, double-spaced, in font size 12 and free from grammatical and
other errors. Papers should show creativity and imagination but should also be written with
clarity and precision. Students will first submit a thesis statement indicating their topic,
proposed argument, and support from philosophical sources. The thesis is worth 5% of the
final grade and is graded on a pass/fail basis. Students will receive comments and guidance
from the instructor regarding their thesis before the paper’s due date. Consult the Course
Schedule for all due dates. Students are warmly encouraged to discuss the paper topic with
the instructor. Please see the instructor if you have further questions or need help during any
phase of the writing process.
The first step in the writing process is picking a topic that interests you. What issues
were you hoping to tackle in this course? What ideas have most impacted the way you think?
What would you like to know more about? Narrowing the field to a few topics is a good start.
From there, consider what readings our book offers on the subject. You are free to write about
any environmental issue, as long as it is considered from a moral point of view. That said,
you might also look into public policy, environmental science, economics or any other
related field. Following your interest is one way to encourage creativity in your papers.
Starting with a question regarding your topic is a good second step. What would you
like to investigate about a particular topic? Consider the scope of your paper and whether or
not there will be conclusive and clear evidence for you to research. Solid papers will argue
for a clear point and will incorporate relevant evidence when applicable. As you settle on
your topic, consider what premises you will need to consider in order to reach a conclusion
on your topic. Think of these premises as the primary support for what your paper aims to
prove. These three premises should help frame your paper, setting the scope of your
investigation. Next, consider how each of these premises logically fit together to help you
address your topic of choice. Try to make these premises fit as precisely as possible. The
more you are able to simplify these premises into a logical argument, the more precise your
paper will be. Obviously, you’ll return to these as you pursue this topic through research. But
you are now on your way to formulating a thesis. For a more detailed discussion of the thesi.
Chapter 3
Exploratory Essay
Chapter 3 Exploratory Essay (Re)Writing Communities and Identities
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Exploratory Essay Assignment Guidelines
As its name implies, the Exploratory Essay allows you to explore a complex issue to not only
better understand the issue itself but also to inform your readers and better situate yourself as
a critical thinker within the cultural conversation. Because of its investigative nature, the
Exploratory Essay’s purpose is informative and its tone is neutral and invitational, allowing you
to build on the skills you developed in the Reading Reflection (Chapter 2).
What will you do?
For this assignment, you will write a 1,000–1,200-word (4–5 double-spaced pages) essay that
explores a sociocultural issue related to socioeconomic status or social class from multiple
points of view. You will read several articles together with your classmates to better understand
the scope and complexity of the conversations around social class in the United States; you will
also supplement these sources with independent outside research. Your independent research
should help you identify a topical focus that will serve as the thematic frame for your own
exploratory essay. Additionally, because the essay is designed to help readers understand the
conversation around your topic, your essay must include at least three sources.
To explore a sociocultural issue from multiple viewpoints, you should read a variety of sources,
such as newspaper articles, editorials, and policy reports. These are not meant to be models of
exploratory writing. Their purpose is to provide some of the core knowledge that will help you
to contextualize this issue in your own essay. As you read, keep in mind the purpose of your
writing: you are not arguing in favor of or against a particular stance; you are not attempting to
prove which authors are right or wrong; instead, you are respectfully engaging with all authors’
ideas to present a neutral overview of the conversations happening around your topic.
To put it another way, keep the idea of an invitation in mind. When we send an invitation (to a
party or a wedding), we are letting recipients know that they are welcome to attend, but they
are in no way required to come—they can accept or decline as they see fit. Think of this paper
in a similar way: you are inviting your audience to look at the different facets of an issue, but
you are not requiring them to agree or disagree with any of them. They may consider what you
say and form their own opinion; you are not trying to persuade them to accept a certain
position. You do want them to engage seriously with your writing, though, and we will talk
about strategies to help you do so without falling into argumentative or persuasive language.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of writing an Exploratory Essay is how the invitation you will
extend to others extends to you, too: in the same way .
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Adapted from: the University of Chicago Writing Program
2: Preparing to write and drafting the paper
Preparing to prove your point: the process of gathering evidence
Once you understand the assignment, your next task is to find data relevant to meeting it. The word "data" makes some humanists flinch a bit, but we need a word that distinguishes all the facts, quotations, references, numbers, events that might be relevant to your assignment from those fact, quotations, references, etc. that might support your specific claim or point. All the information related to your assignment is data; data becomes evidence when you use it to convince readers to agree with your point.
There isn’t space here to discuss the process of reading critically and selecting data,
thinking about what you have gathered, analyzing it, and discovering the point or claim that you want to make and support. Every assignment will ask you to look at your readings in a different way, and every text you read will raise its own problems of interpretation and analysis. In fact, that is what most of your classes are about: selecting and analyzing data, and arriving at a plausible conclusion about them.
The best generic advice we can give is this:
· Go through your readings once and mark with a highlighter everything you think plausibly relevant to answering the assignment.
· So that you can get a sense of it all, go through a second time, skimming what you have highlighted.
· Go through a third time, marking passages that seem most central to your assignment. Try to assign to each passage a key word that will help you sort them later.
· Now try to categorize those passages according to how they might support different points. Which ones support one point, which ones support another point. (Spend the time it takes to find data that might support different, even opposing, points. You need such data so that you can critically balance one point against another.)
· On a piece of paper, jot down what you think are the central concepts that emerge from this analysis.
· To these central concepts attach subsidiary concepts. Use some sort of symbol to represent the kinds of relationships that the subsidiary concepts have to the central concepts and to one another: cause and effect, similarity, contrast, more important-less important, earlier-later in time, and so on. Spend time playing with these relationships. Make lists of the central concepts, order and re-order them, find categories and subcategories.
· Then create a working outline around topics suggested by your categories of evidence.
At this point, you may have a fairly clear idea about the point you want to make; more often, you won't. Either way, if you have even a dim idea about the shape of your general point, prepare to start your first draft.
Planning your first draft: styles of outlining
You may have been told in high school that you needed a detailed outline before you began to draft a paper. For some writers, .
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2. AGENDA
Exam 2: Terms
Presentation: Introduction to Essay #3
How to write a response to literature
Discussion: Stone Butch Blues
In-class writing: Thesis, outline, topic
sentences, and body paragraphs
4. Essay #3
Stone Butch Blues offers many
ways to read the challenges of
growing to adulthood. Each of
the conflicts Jess and her
friends face speaks to readers
differently, and for this reason, I
offer you several choices. In a
thesis driven essay of 4-6
pages, respond to one of the
following prompts. You need
only the primary text for this
essay, but you may use others
if you want to incorporate
additional support.
Remember, you can also draw
on your own experiences and
knowledge to
discuss, explain, and analyze
your topic.
5. Topic: Choose One
Explore Jess’s coming of age
through moments of both
intentional and unintentional
passing in Stone Butch Blues.
Show how these passing
moments shape her into the
person ze ultimately becomes.
Consider both hir experiences
and those of people ze
encounters.
Think about not only who
passes, but for whom they
are passing.
Use textual evidence to show
the moments of passing;
analyze those moments to
prove how they shape,
influence, or change hir.
All people are subject to society’s
demand for conformity. This, as
we discussed in class, has both
positive and negative outcomes.
For this essay, trace that demand
for conformity by identifying the
social pressures that influence
Jess; explain how the social
pressure to conform contributes
to hir growth, development, and
ultimate identity.
Consider multiple settings and
social groups, for example,
home, school, work, bars, and
hospitals.
Think about who has power and
how and why that power is
wielded.
Use textual evidence to show
the moments of social pressure;
analyze those moments to prove
how they shape, influence, or
change hir.
6. Or one of these
For this essay, explore instances and
methods of resistance to oppressions
based on gender identity
development, socioeconomic
structures, race, and sex (or
combinations of these markers) in
Stone Butch Blues. Discuss how
moments of resistance contribute to
Jess’s identity development. Consider
Jess’s masculinity, her working-class
status, her Jewish heritage, her
female body and expected social
role, and her lesbianism (or
combinations of these identity
markers) and the moments of
prejudice, discrimination, violence, or
inhumane treatment based on them.
Think about how Jess resists
these oppressions.
Use textual evidence to show the
moments of oppression; analyze
those moments to show
resistance.
Jess interacts with medical personnel in
various ways throughout the novel. For
this essay, explore Jess’s experience with
doctors, nurses, clinics, hospitals, and
psychiatric institutions. Show how her
gender identity influences the treatment
she receives (or doesn’t receive); analyze
and explain the effects of her experiences
on her social, psychological, and physical
development. Consider multiple
encounters with health professionals or
visits to healthcare facilities. Think both
about her primary care but also how she
sees others treated.
Think about the authority of medical
professionals and how that authority
influences social values.
Use textual evidence to show the
encounters with medical
professionals; analyze those
moments to show how Jess
internalizes the experiences.
Document her responses and explain
her behavior.
7. HOW TO WRITE A
RESPONSE TO
LITERATURE
Adapted from a handout from The Writing
Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
8. Interpretations of fiction are
generally opinions, but not all
opinions are equal.
A good, valid, and interesting interpretation will do
the following:
avoid the obvious (in other words, it won’t argue a
conclusion that most readers could reach on their
own from a general knowledge of the story)
support its main points with strong evidence from the
story
use careful reasoning to explain how that evidence
relates to the main points of the interpretation.
9. Be Familiar with the Text
A good paper begins with the writer having a
solid understanding of the work that he or she
interprets. Being able to have the whole text in
your head when you begin thinking through
ideas will actually allow you to write the paper
more quickly in the long run.
Spend some time just thinking about the story.
Flip back through the book and consider what
interests you about this book—what seemed
strange, new, or important?
10. Explore Potential Topics
Even though you have a list of topics from
which to choose, you must develop your
own interpretation.
Consider how you might approach each
topic.
What will your answer to each question
show about the text?
So what? Why will anyone care?
Try this phrase for each prompt: “This
book shows ________________. This is
important because
______________________.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Passing
Conformity
Resistance
Interaction
with medical
professionals
11. Select a Topic with Plenty
of Evidence
Narrow down your list of
possible topics by
identifying how much
evidence or how many
details you could use to
investigate each potential
issue.
Keep in mind that
persuasive papers rely on
ample evidence and that
having a lot of details to
choose from can make your
paper easier to write.
Jot down all the events or
elements of the story that
have some bearing on the
two topics that seem most
promising.
Don’t launch into a topic
without considering all the
options first because you
may end up with a topic that
seemed promising initially
but that only leads to a dead
end.
12. Jot down all the events or elements
of the story that have some bearing
on the two topics that seem most
promising.
Topic One: Medical
Personnel
Topic Two: Resistance
Mental institution when
Jess was young
Resisted Annie Oakley
outfit.
Mastectomy
Women’s clinic
Fought with police in
Alley
Milli to the veterinarian
for broken arm
Resisted wearing a
dress to Ro’s funeral
13. Developing a Working
Thesis
Based on the evidence that relates to your
topic—and what you anticipate you might say
about those pieces of evidence—compose a
working thesis. Think about what you want to
show the reader.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Passing
Conformity
Resistance
Interaction with medical professionals
14. Thesis Possibility:
Resistance
This book shows that Jess’s resistance to
oppression, based on gender identity
development, socioeconomic structures, race,
and sex, contributes to Jess’s growth and
development because it makes hir strong. This
is important because it shows that resistance is
not futile, that resisting oppression liberates
people from it.
15. Write Out a Working Thesis
Try this phrase again:
This book (or Feinberg) shows
________________.
This is important because
_____________________.
Remember, this will
probably evolve as your
insights develop into a
more complex idea.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Passing
Conformity
Resistance
Interaction with
medical
professionals
16. Make an extended list of
evidence
Skim back over the story and make
a more comprehensive list of the
details that relate to your point.
As you make your notes keep track
of page numbers so you can
quickly find the passages in your
book again when you need them.
17. Select your evidence
Once you’ve made your expanded list of evidence,
decide which supporting details are the strongest. First,
select the facts which bear the closest relation to your
thesis statement. Second, choose the pieces of
evidence you’ll be able to say the most about. Readers
tend to be more dazzled with your interpretations of
evidence than with a lot of quotes from the book.
Select the details that will allow you to show off your
own reasoning skills and allow you to help the reader
see the story in a way he or she may not have seen it
before.
18. Refine your thesis
Now, go back to your working thesis and refine it
so that it reflects your new understanding of your
topic. This step and the previous step (selecting
evidence) are actually best done at the same
time, since selecting your evidence and defining
the focus of your paper depend upon each other.
Don't forget to consider the scope of your project:
how long is the paper supposed to be, and what
can you reasonably cover in a paper of that
length?
19. Refined Thesis: Resistance
This book shows that social pressure,
oppression, and violence act not only as
forces of conformity, but also as powerful
sources of agency; they can inspire people to
challenge injustice in pursuit of liberty.
20. Organize your evidence
Once you have a clear thesis you can go back to your
list of selected evidence and group all the similar details
together. The ideas that tie these clusters of evidence
together can then become the claims that you’ll make in
your paper. As you begin thinking about what claims you
can make (i.e. what kinds of conclusion you can come
to) keep in mind that they should not only relate to all the
evidence but also clearly support your thesis. Once
you’re satisfied with the way you’ve grouped your
evidence and with the way that your claims relate to your
thesis, you can begin to consider the most logical way to
organize each of those claims.
21. Interpret your evidence
Avoid the temptation to load your paper with evidence from your
story. Each time you use a specific reference to your story, be
sure to explain the significance of that evidence in your own
words. To get your readers’ interest, you need to draw their
attention to elements of the story that they wouldn’t necessarily
notice or understand on their own. If you are quoting passages
without interpreting them, you’re not demonstrating your
reasoning skills or helping the reader. In most cases, interpreting
your evidence merely involves putting into your paper what is
already in your head. Remember that we, as readers, are lazy—
all of us. We don’t want to have to figure out a writer’s reasoning
for ourselves; we want all the thinking to be done for us in the
paper.
22. Introduction: Directed Summary (We will discuss this next time we meet)
Transition to Thesis Statement (We will discuss this next time we meet)
Thesis Statement
Section A
Body Paragraph 1
Body Paragraph 2
Section B
Body Paragraph 3
Body Paragraph 4
Section C
Body Paragraph 5
Body Paragraph 6
Counterargument (We will discuss this next time we meet)
Conclusion (We will discuss this next time we meet)
23. Thesis: This book shows that social pressure, oppression, and violence act
not only as forces of conformity, but also as powerful sources of agency;
they can inspire people to challenge injustice in the pursuit of liberty.
Section A: Social Pressure is a powerful source of agency that works to inspire
Jess to challenge injustice.
Par 1: Social pressure from the larger social construct that inspires Jess to challenge
injustice.
Par 2: Social pressure from inside of the lesbian community that inspires Jess to
challenge injustice.
Section B: Oppression is a powerful source of agency that works to inspire Jess
to challenge injustice.
Par 3: Gender expression oppression inspires Jess to challenge injustice.
Par 4: Discrimination/oppression at work/hospital/school inspires Jess to challenge
injustice.
Section C: Violence is a powerful source of agency that works to inspire Jess to
challenge injustice.
Par 5: Emotional/Mental Abuse (violence) inspires Jess to challenge injustice
Par 6: Physical Abuse (violence) inspires Jess to challenge injustice.
24. HOMEWORK
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Reading: Begin M Butterfly
Post # 19: Writing: Finish and
post in-class writing.
• Outline
• Tentative Thesis
• Essay Sections: Section
Sentences
• Body paragraphs with
topic sentences and
evidence (quotations)
with explanations.