Comparing Gender and Racial Discrimination: Truth, Hurston, and Kleege, Papers of English Language

Download Comparing Gender and Racial Discrimination: Truth, Hurston, and Kleege and more Papers English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Dr. Oguine Spring 2002 ENGL 1201-ZRB Group Essay Topic In a well-organized and developed essay, discuss TWO types of discrimination that hurt the most, analyzing the victims’ suffering processes that lead to their reactions. Use characters of your choice to support your points from two of the following texts in this unit: Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” Zora Neal Hurston’s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” “Georgina Kleege’s “Call It Blindness,” and the film on Terry Kay’s The Runaway. Check your syllabus for more details on this essay. Drafting Guidelines 1. Give your essay a suitable title that reflects its contents 2. Start your introduction with a definition of the key word or words in your title. Include the authors’ full names and texts you intend to use as references. From your title, develop a thesis statement which will serve as a controlling idea or a basis for discussion in your paragraphs. Preferably, let it be a part of the concluding sentence of your introduction. 3. Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence and develop it with clear explanations that expand the meaning of your thesis, using only details which emphasize your points. End each paragraph with a strong concluding sentence that reinforces the topic of the paragraph. 4. Use quotations to illustrate points already made in your own words and cite the author’s last name and page number in parentheses immediately following the quoted material. 5. Provide a Works Cited page in MLA format with entries in alphabetical order. 6. Proofread your essay carefully to correct all surface errors.