Name:

• In 2-4 sentences, please describe your proposed book project, its central aim, medium of presentation, and its relevance to the course material and potential relevance to your future goals:

 

• Please list the literary text(s) to which your project will attend:

 

• Please describe the specific detail or idea and/or chapter/scene/section your project will focus on in the text(s) you’ve chosen:

 

• Please list the peer-reviewed scholarly articles you have consulted in this project (provide name of author and title, and star the article you plan to engage the most):

 

• In regards to your starred article, why are you focusing on this article?

 

• Please detail how your project will engage the historical context around your literary text(s):

 

• Please explain what your central argument or claim is and how your project plans to convey that claim:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.  Where are you on your draft?  (what have you written and what do you still need to do?)

2.  What is the strongest part of your paper thus far?

3. What is the weakest part of your paper?

4.  What  SPECIFIC questions do you have about your papers?  (“Does my thesis work?” or “How can I make this a thesis?” or “How can I make this more pages?” are not specific questions.)

Introduction:

1. Does the introduction seem relevant?

2.  Are there parts of the introduction that do not seem relevant?

 

Thesis:

1. What texts will the essay focus on?

2. What is the essay’s major claim?

3. What are the stakes of that claim?

4. What method of analysis will the essay undertake to illustrate this claim?

 

Body:

1.  What are the topic sentences for this essay?

2. Do the topic sentences relate clearly to the thesis? (If not, what parts seem off?)

3.  Put together do the topic sentences encompass the total of the argument? (If not, what parts seem off?)

4. Does the content of the paragraph correspond to the topic sentence? (If not, what parts seem off?)

5. Are there aspects of the argument not elaborated or discussed? (If so, what?)

6. Are there parts of the paragraphs that do not seem relevant to the topic sentence and/or the essay as a whole? (If so, what?)

 

Conclusion:

1.  Is there a conclusion?

2.  How much of the conclusion is just a recap or summary of the paper?

3. What ideas for further reflection or thought does the conclusion add to the argument presented?

http://apphotocontests.ap.org/AP_ContestSlidshows/atlanta_2014/index.html

LeBron James vertical leap and Sylvia Plath’s,  “I am vertical” have a critical similarity. Both have a unique crave about being high up or down below. Plath and LBJ are similar in that, they both have a certain destination as to where they want to be.  Plath wants to be lying down on the floor, looking up and LBJ wants to be high up, looking down below.  This in turn, creates a distinct commonness about each other that needs to be addressed. With his vertical leap reportedly measuring in at somewhere north of 40 inches (the NBA average is in the high 20s), King James is able to launch his 6-foot-8-inch, 250-pound frame with seeming ease. (Per John Dorsey of Espn.com).

Sierra College Writing Center Tips for Literary Analysis Paper

 

Why do you choose the two text you have chosen to compare and contrast?

 

What do you ultimately want to say about the relationship between these two texts?

 

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What is your frame of reference for comparing these two objects?  (Note if you pick two texts from the syllabus and if you form an argument within the theme of the course, then verticality is automatically a frame of reference, but I encourage you to be a little more specific.  Are you focusing on looking down or looking up? Are you focused on the images of the vertical and class status?  What is it that you are talking about that enters into conversation with these two texts?

 

What is the common ground for putting these two texts in conversation?

a) what are other comparisons you could have made to talk about the text you wanted to talk about?

b) what do the two texts you chose have in common (other than being on the syllabus)?

c) what do you get from putting these two texts in conversation that you don’t get from putting two other texts in conversation?

 

What is your thesis?

a) what is the relationship between your two text?

b) which texts are you primarily focused on (if both say so)?

c) what is your ultimate argument or claim about the relationship between these two texts.

 

How will you go about structuring this paper?

a) Will you use a text by text?

b) Will you use a point by point?

c) What points would you use, if you use a point by point?

 

How will you link your text together throughout?

Write out 2 out of 3 of your topic sentences.

1. Meeting times are listed in the previous post.

 

2. Bring to class on Wednesday two texts that you want to compare.  If you really really want to do an outside text, then bring your outside text plus an inside one, and you can make a case for your outside one in class, but you will be prepared in case I say no.

 

3. Please remember that the third paper is due Monday December 1st at 10:00 am.

 

4. Also on Dec 1st we will end class early by 30 minutes.

 

5.  and lastly we need volunteers to do their workshops on Dec 1st.

 

 

Here are the meeting times.  Please note I have tried to make it so that there are 20 minutes between each meeting. I plan for the meetings to be about 15 minutes long, but I want there to be a 5 minute cushion in case something goes longer or there’s some unforeseen delay in the schedule.   Unless otherwise noted (in the parenthetical notes below) meetings will be in my office in VC 7-298.   It’s in the English department all the way in the back.  Keep curving to the right.

If you arrive early and are waiting, you can wait in the hall outside.  If we get to your meeting time, but I am still with the previous student, please politely knock on the door to let me know that you are there, and I will get to you as soon as possible.

Please do not miss your meeting time.

Thanks,

Allison

 

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Wednesday, November 12

2:20 Dmytro

2:40 Joy

4:40 Tanzim

5:00: Mark

 

Thursday, November 13

2:15 Jasper

2:35 Ray

4:00 pm David

 

Monday, November 17th

2:20 Milly (at 17 Lex)

2:40 Zach  (at 17 Lex)

4:40 Dafna (in transit back to office)

5:00 Rachael

 

Wednesday, November 19

2:20 Aqsa (at 17 Lex)

2:40 Phil (at 17 Lex)

4:40 Cindy (in transit back to office)

5:00 Tiffany

5:20 Jacob

Comparative Analysis Online Handout

“How to Write a Comparative Analysis”

Harvard College Writing Center