1. Choose an exhibit text
1.1 Identify a scholarly problem in that text that most readers and/or the author doesnt see
1.2 A contradiction, tension, question, break in continuity, etc.
2.Use 2-3 other texts to help explore that problem
3.How does our understanding of the problem change when read in relationship to other essays?
3.1 How do the other texts complicate, expand, support, contradict, agree with, etc. the problem (the X, Y, Z)?
4. Use textual evidence
5. The paper should be 1500-2000 words
6. please add a draft if it’s possible.
I will upload 4 texts (pdf file). It is up to you to choose which text you want to use as a base and which text you want to use to explore the scholarly problem. You have to choose one text as a base and at least two texts to explore the problem.
If you have a problem understanding my instructions please see this example :
A hypothetical (and broad) example:
1. If you find your scholarly problem in Kincaid (your exhibit) that relates to a tension/gap/contradiction between her personal history and U.S. history
1.1 Explore the problem, contextualize it, examine passages where you see it
2.Then you might look to Douglass (text #2)
2.1 How does he look at history (or the X,Y,Z of your problem)?
2.2 Does anything in her text/argument complicate the problem that youre looking at? How?
2.3 Which passages/evidence will be helpful to examine this?
3. A new question or complication might emerge when we look at Douglass and Kincaid together in relation to your problem (X,Y,Z).
3.1 How might Gates Jr.s text (text #3) explore this question or provide a new dimension, understanding, argument, question, etc.
3.2 You see that Gates Jr. aligns with Douglass, but disagrees with Kincaid
3.3 What new dimensions of your argument emerge from that disagreement (in relation to your problem)?
5. Remember to use the evidence, quotes, analysis, signposts, etc.
