For this exercise, you will turn in a well formulated thesis based on your brainstorming exercise.
Evaluate your thesis to make sure it:
- Your thesis should make an arguable claim. [Meaning: Make sure your thesis statement is not just an announcement of a subject or theme or a general evaluative statement (i.e. This text is a good example of Rousseau.)]
2. It should give me a sense of a roadmap of the argument.
3. It should be specific in its scope (i.e. you’re not writing about all of education).
4. It should answer the question/follow the assignment. The paper for this assignment is to put one of the theory texts and literary texts in conversation with each other. This means you should essentially be able to answer two questions with your thesis: How does some aspect of X person’s theory help us read or think through some part of Y person’s literature? AND vise versa How does some part of Y person’s literature speak back to some aspect of X person’s theory?Go back to your brainstorming activity.
5. Your thesis statement should be grammatically correct.
6. It should identify specific parts of the theory text and the literary texts you’re focusing on.