Paper Guidelines:
– Number your pages (include your name on each page).
– Format: Double-spaced, no larger than Times New Roman 12-point font
– Include works-cited page. Citations should follow AAA style. You can find the format of AAA citation style online.
– 3 pages on Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture, incorporating material from class lectures and readings.
Goal:Creatively interpret the work or a portion of it that you choose.Unpack the main themes or ideas presented in the work.
Second step:From here you develop your thesis statement (main idea, focus, point) for the essay.Think about what it is you want to convey in the essay.The point of the essay is to convince the reader that your argument is correct.This will be the main idea of your essay.Your thesis statement is what you are trying to prove or defend.You must use evidence from the text to do this. You must succinctly summarize the author?s point first, and then articulate an effective response, critique or commentary that conveys to your reader your increasing capacity to think within the terms of the discipline and what you have learned in the course.
If you need help consider the following: How are race and gender socially constructed? What are the influences of patriarchy? How is hegemony played out in the contexts described in these books? How does the social reproduction of these paradigms occur? (This includes the production of gender — femininity and masculinity — and race). Although it should not be the center of your paper, there will be space for personal stories and reflection. You might try to answer the following questions:How did the reading surprise you? Did it make you think differently about anything? If so, how? Is a concept or idea proposed by the author useful to think with? How so?
I.Introduction:Thesis statement: (main idea, focus) should be broad enough that you can write 3 pages trying to prove it.This paragraph will set up the structure for the rest of your essay.
II.Body:Present evidence to prove position or to support you argument (thesis statement).
a) You can?t prove your thesis with other opinions
b) Use evidence from the text
c) Clearly explain how the evidence you present support your thesis
d) Quote passages from the text that support your thesis.Explain the significance of the quote.How does it relate to your thesis?
e) Be sure to explain evidence adequately.Always bringing it back to your thesis statement.
f) Constantly explain how and why it means what you say it means.
g) There should be a logical development of your argument
III.Conclusion: Tie everything together.Summarize arguments presented in the body of the essay.Restate the thesis as proved.
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