Pick from one concept to focus on from April 1-17!!!!!!!!
Instructions for the Paper
1. Reread all of your Conversation Book entries and reflect on the development of your own
thinking so far this semester.
2. Select one specific concept or claim found in Tisby’s book, which you’ve written about already
within one of your Conversation Book entries dated between April 1-17. This should be a concept
or claim that resonates with you as being especially interesting, and worth exploring further.
3. A. State the date of the Conversation Book entry where the concept or claim on which you’re
focusing is located.
B. Explain in your own words how the concept or claim is addressed in Tisby’s book and avoid
relying primarily on long quotations.
C. Connect Tisby’s concept or claim with something else, showing how it relates to, compares
or contrasts with, or is illustrated by ONE of the following:
1) a specific concept or claim
found in another author from this class; OR
2) a specific concept or claim found in another
author from another class; OR
3) a specific news story taken from here, here, here, or here;
OR
4) a specific example of a piece of music, film, television, or the visual or performing arts.
Select only one of these four options and be sure to cite the source of your “connecting thing.”
D. Evaluate Tisby’s concept or claim, making the case for what you personally consider to be the
strength and/or weakness of his position, based on clearly formulated criteria.
E. Propose your own position—your own way of addressing the key question or issue Tisby is
seeking to address—and make the case for why you think your approach is a good one.
• Don’t skip any steps! Consider including headings/paragraphs naming each of the steps listed
above (explanation, connection, evaluation, proposal).
• Use 12-point font, 1” page margins, double-spacing between lines, and ½” indenting for new
paragraphs.
• Avoid long quotes from any texts, but if you do incorporate a brief quote, be sure to cite it
appropriately. Use MLA format (examples here).
• Recall the statements about academic integrity (including plagiarism) from our course Syllabus.
If you are using another source, you must cite it.
Instructions for the Presentation
