This exercise follows after the brainstorming and the thesis exercises.  As with each of those exercises, you will complete this exercise twice.

The Exercise:

Once you have a thesis, you will articulate a clear and concise road map of how you plan to take your reader through your paper.  The thesis + the road map will be the heart of your introductory paragraph.

The rest of your paper will illustrate your argument by taking your reader through a clear and cogent close reading analysis.  Illustrating your argument will include clearly introducing each topic, using quoted texts with proper page citations, and providing detailed explanation of how that quoted passage illustrates y our point.   Your paper should also be clear about which philosophy (and whose argument) it is putting in conversation with the literature.   This means you may need to introduce the philosophy text and the portion of its argument you’re focusing on in the beginning of the paper.

You may submit a first paragraph in lieu of or alongside your introductory paragraph.  If you submit a first paragraph it must be well written and thoroughly executed.  You should clearly say what your point is for the paragraph and walk us clearly through where you read the texts illustrating that point.