Format: Microsoft Word, three pages, double-spaced, 12-pt. font, standard margins
The main difference between this assignment and your previous paper (“Close Reading for Language”) is that this essay will propose a main “point” or “message” to the story or poem you are analyzing and follow that message through the entire piece, tracing out how it builds and develops. This assignment will also focus on the various methods the writer uses to convince and perhaps even manipulate you into agreement, or into thinking harder and deeper on the subject at hand.
Instead of merely describing the content of an author’s claims (“what” is being said and whether you as a reader agree or disagree), your essay should instead be an analysis of “how” the tactics and techniques that writers use to push her points across work. “Rhetoric” comes from a word meaning “to weave” (from the classical Greek) and this third paper should focus on how a writer builds an argument and a point-of-view out of the fabric of language.
This again means a microscopic attention to the way that words, punctuation and blank space are set down on a page. Remember how the word “argument” is being used here—in academic terms an argument is not so much a quarrel as a piece of attempted persuasion. As well, the paper should search for techniques like “hyperbole” (or exaggeration) and “antithesis” (or contrast). Where is there irony or sarcasm of tone? How are the active and passive voices contrasted?
As in your close-reading paper, you cannot be too “small” in register. Focus on the tiny elements with which an argument is constructed. We too often think in terms of binary or dualism—simple contrasts between “opposites,” but generally the most productive thinking on a subject takes places in that dangerous territory in between.
Again, this assignment’s main task is to locate the central, main “thrust” or “claim” of one of the poems or stories from our course reader and then to proceed to analyze how this message is developed. This means underlining and emphasizing those key moments in the piece where it uses specific language to convey its point and convince its readership. Your own essay will similarly use its own language to convince us that you have paid close attention to those methods used in an act of linguistic persuasion.
TOPICS
Read Suji Kwock-Kim’s “Generation” in relations to the ongoing political controversies concerning reproductive rights and abortion. How does a strange narrative in which a fetus recounts development inside the womb complicate our sense of “personhood”?
Sherman Alexie’s “My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys” is a Native American perspective on the “mythology” of the American West. How does Alexie manage to dismantle much of the so-called “heroism” of America’s “settling”?
you can choose one of these two readings, you can see which one is more easier for you . readings attached below.
I did this same assigment twice and I also had attached the corrections that my professor want me to fix on the first paper i did, you can take a look on the pdf attached below as “corrections” so you not gonna make the same mistake as i did ( in case) I know you are professional and i trust you not gonna make the same mistake !
and also my professor can see if the paper have used AI or any translator so do not use any of these programs
if you have any question please let me know ! and I also will have a couple more orders for you to complete in the next few days. THANK YOU !
