Part 1—Reading and Review
Read the Essay 2 assignment guidelines.
Review the lecture videos and writing guides assigned so far for this essay progression, with special attention to any that I recommended in my feedback and in class.
Review your notes and annotations on “The Starfruit Tree” by Ashwak Fardoush.
Review the quotations that you selected from the contextual secondary source “The Women’s Movement in Bangladesh: A Short History and Current Debates” by Sohela Nazneen.
Review the quotations that you selected from the theoretical secondary source “Feminist criticism” by Lois Tyson.
Review your notes on the Formal Draft feedback.
Closely read and annotate the Model Essay.
Part 2—Writing
Analysis Paragraphs
Using my feedback on your Zero Draft and the work we did in class, revise, expand, and deepen your analysis of the specific evidence from “The Starfruit Tree.”
Use the literary terms you’ve learned as key terms to analyze the text and feminist key terms from Tyson.
Support your analysis and claims with close reading.
Explain how understanding the evidence you have identified are important clues to understand the story as a feminist text.
Revise your claims to express your specific argument in each analysis paragraph. Your claims should answer the intellectual questions that you posed. They must be debatable, supported by your analysis, specific, and insightful and must include the literary term and a feminist theoretical term.
Include secondary source quotations in each of your three analysis paragraphs—one from Nazneen and one from Tyson. “Sandwich” the quotations between your analysis of evidence and use them to help you to analyze that evidence from “The Starfruit Tree.” Do not summarize or analyze secondary source quotations.
Retain the identification/labeling and color-coding of the elements of argumentation and type of secondary source. Label/identify the element in ALL CAPS at the beginning of the sentence and color code each element according to what it’s doing: claim, analysis, evidence, analysis, secondary source (theoretical and contextual), synthesis.
Presentation Paragraphs
Polish your summaries using strategies discussed in class.
Revise your introduction in which you present your argument on the exhibit.
End this paragraph with your thesis in bold. Your thesis should express your central argument and must include a literary term and a feminist term.
Synthesis Paragraph
Review your conclusion to synthesize, rather than summarize, your argument about the story. Answer the “So, what?” question. How do you want your audience to recognize the ways which gender roles are constructed by patriarchy, not just in the story, but outside of the story? How do you want them to see the story and the world differently now that they have read your essay?
Structure Your Essay
Revise specific headings before each of your paragraphs that state what your paragraph is doing. The headings should be specific and include a literary term and a feminist key term.
Use strategies from the Effective Paragraphing and P-A-S in order to ensure a cohesive essay structure.
Order your paragraphs like this:
Summary of “The Starfruit Tree” by Ashwak Fardoush
Summary of “The Women’s Movement in Bangladesh: A Short History and Current Debates” by Sohela Nazneen
Introduction with thesis
Analysis Paragraph 1
Analysis Paragraph 2
Analysis Paragraph 3
Conclusion
Works Cited
Self-evaluation
Title Your Essay
Revise your two-line title, which should intrigue and inform your intended audience of student readers. Your title must include “The Starfruit Tree” by Ashwak Fardoush.
Demonstrate Your Ethos as an Academic Writer
Include your word count after your name. Your word count only includes the text of your paragraphs and does not include the heading, Works Cited page, or self-evaluation.
Include a complete and correct Works Cited page. Review Purdue OWL for strategies for citing the texts. I usually search on Google like this:
For “The Starfruit Tree”: How to cite an online short story MLA Purdue OWL
For “The Women’s Movement in Bangladesh: A Short History and Current Debates”: How to cite an online journal article MLA Purdue OWL
For “Feminist criticism”: How to cite chapter in a book MLA Purdue OWL
Review the assignment requirements in order to ensure that you completed all of them.
Include a one-paragraph thoughtful self-evaluation of 100-150 words in which you briefly, but thoughtfully, explain the following. Number your responses.
What specific steps you took to ensure that you completed all assignment requirements.
How you think this essay helped you to develop your academic writing in terms of working with multiple sources. Be specific about the Functions of Sources.
The ways in which you want to continue to develop your academic writing practices with Essay 3.
