analyze the work story you have chosen (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/23/the-m… ) and relate it to at least three (preferably more) other works we have read, showing that you have understood the major concepts introduced in the course.
it is a synthesis. (Links to an external site.) Click on the link for more information or Google “synthesis paper.” A synthesis is a paper in which “students work with several readings and . . .draw commonalities out of those readings.”
the paper should be primarily analytic –not a “book report” or evaluation. It should show evidence of thoughtful consideration of the content and the story you have chosen as well as the other works from the class that you choose to discuss.
divide your paper into two parts:
Part One:
After briefly summarizing the story ( https://www.sites.google.com/site/39boretz/story-45, )you should analyze it, considering any of the following that you think are important:
- the narrator,
- the setting and how you know where and when the story takes place; why important
- the main characters and their importance
- important images or symbols in the story
Part Two:
What does consideration of the story add to our overview of women in literature: what familiar issues or situations does it bring up, and how might consideration of these issues enhance our view of how the literature we have read depicts women?
In the story you have chosen as well as other works we have considered so far this semester, consider the kinds of questions that are germane to women’s literature, choosing one or moreof the following:
- love/friendship between women
- parents and children
- literacy and language
- silence and voice
- confinement
- loss of innocence
- patriarchy
- predation
- animal
- as symbol
- objectification of women
- marking of women (as in Tannen)
- speculative elements in fiction by women
- postmodernism in women’s writing
- dangerous women
- sex and gender
Consult the commentaries and discussion for further ideas
Your introduction should provide the reader with the focus of your paper, including the names of works you will write about.
For the body of your paper, you should use headings (Part One and Part Two)
I should be able to follow your analysis and synthesis: Paragraphs should fit together logically and gracefully.
Conclusions (the last thing your reader reads) are important and should comment on the importance of what you have said not just trail off or end abruptly.
paper should show that you have understood what you read. You should not leave out something important in the texts that might contradict the point you want to make. You will need to be specific in your references. Name names, places, and events correctly.
don’t use any outside sources.
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