Writing Assignment: Second Essay - English Composition | WR 122, Papers of Grammar and Composition

Download Writing Assignment: Second Essay - English Composition | WR 122 and more Papers Grammar and Composition in PDF only on Docsity! WR 122 Writing Assignment: Second Essay Barnes You have three choices for your second essay: one dealing with Susan Bordo’s “Hunger as Ideology,” and two dealing with Edward Said’s “States.” The second and third essay ideas are not based on assignments in Ways of Reading. 1. The first choice is the second option in the assignments for writing that follows “Hunger as Ideology.” What this assignment asks you to do is to explore Bordo’s characterization of gender dualities by finding and examining “examples and counter examples.” You will need to describe the ads, read the ads, as Bordo does, putting “her terms to work in your examples.” Read the assignment on p. 173 carefully, and include as an appendix copies of any print ads you analyze. 2. In the introduction to “States,” we read that Edward Said once served on the Palestinian National Council and split from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (the PLO) in 1991. Though Said was not a terrorist (he died last year), he expresses thoughts and ideas that might help understand why people we call terrorists do what they do. Your second essay option is to write an essay in which you use Said’s essay to try to understand why some Palestinians might engage in terroristic activity. 3. Said’s essay presents a verbal and visual picture of the condition of exile. For your third essay option, write an essay using both Said’s text and Mohr’s photographs, in which you relate your experiences of feeling exiled. You will need to establish a definition of exile by presenting its characteristics, its essential qualities, and then connect your experiences to that definition. Each of these writing ideas involves intertextuality, using one text to understand another. ï In the first choice, you will be expected to employ Bordo’s language of analysis. ï In the second choice, your analysis of causes must be based on Said’s essay. Do not go beyond an understanding that Said’s essay would support. ï In the third choice, base your experience on the specifics of Said’s essay. Be sure to establish clear characteristics of the exile experience and then relate them to your personal experience. Here is a brief description of a good college essay: It should have a title that forecasts the thesis. It should have an introduction that pulls the reader in, specifies the subject, and contains a thesis. It should have a body that supports and develops the thesis through use of appropriate rhetorical modes, moving between the general and specific, the concrete and the abstract. It should have a conclusion that reinforces the content and enhances the essay. In this essay, I want you to use MLA format in-text citation. You will not need a Works Cited page if you make it clear from the beginning which essay you are using in your essay. Length: 500-1000 words, 2-4 typed, double-spaced pages. Due: 2/16