Please read and follow these directions carefully. Our assignments this semester have been getting progressively more complex and layered. Writing in college involves many different skills and assignments vary from instructor to instructor and course to course.
For this single-spaced 1-2 page essay, choose one or both of the stories to write about. You are free to find your own angle. Maybe you want to write about gender and art? Maybe you want to address the issue of captivity and "bottling up" art activity? Maybe you have a fresh perspective? Whatever the case, make sure your essay has a clearly articulated main idea presented in the first or second paragraph.
You will need to find at least one secondary scholarly source to incorporate into your essay. The best and easiest way to do this is to choose an essay on the Jstor platform. Maybe you agree with the findings of your outside source or maybe you disagree. Of course, maybe you're somewhere in the middle. That's OK. We will be learning next week about MLA formatting of a Works Cited page. It's not as hard as it seems.
This essay on the textual history of "The Yellow Wallpaper" might work just fine for those of you writing about this story. This dissertation about Cather's use of art and artists in her fiction might also be useful:
You are free to open up space in your essay to discuss how your chosen issue impacts your life as a young emerging artist. However, don't neglect the central purpose of your essay: To give a fresh way of thinking about the story or stories. To do this effectively, you must use evidence from the stories themselves. Remember to avoid plot summary and over-long quotations.
Your revised and lovingly copyedited essay is due no later than noon on Thursday, October 26. Upload to Populi. Questions: csmith@dcad.edu
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