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For this paper, you will select a topic from either Unit 1 or Unit 2 and craft a short ″thought paper.″ The goal of this paper is to explore one text or idea more fully. You may choose any text and topic you would like, but I recommend using one of the many questions we have worked with in reading questions and discussions throughout the class (maybe even the question you wrote on a discussion board!). Please use strong textual evidence to provide meaningful and deep analysis. The goal here is to keep your paper narrowly focused and to go deep, rather than feeling like you have to fully analyze a whole text. While you may use quotes and ideas you wrote about in previous responses to questions, you should not simply copy and paste those responses in without editing and adjustment.
The minimum requirements for this paper are:
Your paper must be a minimum of 1000 words, which is roughly 3 to 4 pages, though you may exceed this minimum.
For these papers it is best not to include outside resources if possible. Your paper should explore your reading and ideas about the text you choose. You may apply course concepts and ideas, but avoid finding external sources.
Avoid too much summary–jump right into your argument!
Here are 3 important key ideas to keep in mind when writing a literary analysis:
Develop a clear argument (thesis) that provides an argument that is narrowly focused and appropriate to the page count. (For example, in a 5 page paper, you can’t do an in-depth study of Mother’s in African American Literature. You could, though, focus in on specific decisions Eva makes in Sula, analyzing how social circumstances and the history of slavery affect those actions. Similarly, you can’t address 5 texts or poems fully, but you could compare small sections/scenes/sets of lines by two or three, if you focus narrowly on very connected pieces.)
Use textual evidence to support your argument. Each paragraph should have a balance of evidence from the text and your own explication (taking something implicit, that you see in the text, and pointing it out so that the reader can see it). Your analysis should be twice as long as anything you quote or paraphrase, in order to ensure you give enough of an argument and your perspective.
Show, don’t tell. Instead of telling your reader what the author is doing, show us. For example, don’t tell us “x text is about…” without using direct textual evidence so that we can see it too—we can’t just take your word for it. If you feel like it would take too long to explain or go into depth, that is usually a sign your topic is too big. Similarly, don’t say “in this paper I will ____” or tell us what you are doing. Instead, do it. (Example: In this paper I will analyze the decisions Eva makes in Sula. NO—instead: In Sula, Eva ______.)
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