1. Assignment Guidelines
– Once you have chosen your primary source, you will then conduct research and analysis on the primary source and the topic you have chosen, and write a 6-8 page essay that presents an argument about how a close analysis of your primary source reveals some issue or problem related to the topic you have selected. In other words, you’re trying to answer our course’s guiding question. So how does this work of fiction speak to real-world problems like the one you’ve been researching? Does it offer a timely warning we should pay attention to? Does it present a warning that is too far-fetched to be taken seriously?
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Introduce the topic at hand, briefly survey the existing scholarship, explain your research question, introduce the case your essay will examine, and state your thesis.
Provide an assessment of the scholarly conversation most relevant to your argument. For example, if your literature review concluded that one methodological approach was more useful than others, and you aim to position your essay as contributing to this body of scholarship, it would be useful to analyze that segment of the literature in more depth to contextualize your research.
Guide readers through your analysis of your case by working closely with evidence from the primary and secondary sources you identified through research
Explain how your findings affirm, extend, complicate, challenge, or otherwise contribute to the existing academic conversation.
2. Outline
– I have attached a somewhat messy 600-word outline that should have enough information on it that one could use to get my general thesis and formatting for the essay.
3. Sample essay
– I will also attach a sample essay as a reference.