What’s the story I am telling in this letter? What’s the topic? What are my own views on this particular topic? What research lens or frame am I going to use? What’s the thesis or argument? What are some themes I am going to work through? What course texts will I be using to explain my ideas? What are the major points I will be making? What information do I have to support my thinking, observation, and analysis? What types of sources have I considered or gathered? How will I use the sources to support my ideas? What facts or information do I still need? What textual evidence from the course texts will I be organizing in this letter? What specific quotes or textual evidence from the outside sources will I be using and organizing in this letter? What literary terms will I be using to convey my ideas? How will I connect literary terms to my thesis? What literary theory (or theories) will I be incorporating into my paper to support by topic and/or thesis? How will I structure the narrative or order of this letter? How can I incorporate my views into this letter? What do I need to say in this letter that I haven’t already said in Letter #1? How can I offer analysis and interpretation on this topic? How can I show that I am thinking with others’ voices and ideas? What have others said about this particular topic, or about these texts? How can I differentiate my ideas from theirs? What’s the takeaway in this letter? What message do I want to leave my reader with? What should I be reflecting on in this letter?
Finally, the goal of this letter assignment is to create an active relationship to the subject matter and ideas of your first letter, while you are now offering more extensive personal research and reflection, and, perhaps, experience as well. Therefore, you should write about a thesis that you find important or meaningful that you see working between two course texts, and engage in the possibility of seeing how these two texts speak to each other, work together, or perhaps, work against each other, by supporting them with one additional outside source.
I hope this writing experience helps broaden the scope of your writing and opens the door to future composition writing and research practices, and encounters with multifaceted literary texts. I hope this letter helps you to see how important the practice of thinking through your ideas is.
Requirements:
- 1,500-2,500 Words
- Format: MLA 8th Edition, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, writing/lines must be double-spaced; paragraphic structure (indent paragraphs with “Tab”)
MLA format, in-text citations, Works Cited for the TWO course texts (chosen from our ENG 201 Academic Course Calendar) you are quoting, critiquing, analyzing, and offering reflection on in this letter, with ONE additional outside source(s) (that you find beyond the assigned course texts)
Bit 2019 and Lesbian Vampire Killers 2009. And add one more source out of the course text.
