Compare and contrast Virginia Woolf’s and Audre Lorde’s understandings of and/or approaches to the advancement of women.
Essay #3: Extended Compare and Contrast
Requirements
- Approval of Topic Proposal (see next page)
- 3-4 pages*, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman.
*3-4 pages means 3 full pages to 4 full pages
- MLA format must be utilized perfectly.
Assignment
While the combined acts of comparing and contrasting ideas may seem simple, they form the basis of strong critical and analytical thinking. Your primary goal in this assignment will be to use these skills to compose a concerted and convincing argument that draws a significant conclusion out of a discussion of the dissimilar among the similar.
PROMPT: Choose two texts/essays (at least one from our course readings) that include a similar area of overlap (a specific concept, topic, theme, or idea both texts share). Then, compose a unified essay, based on a thesis statement and central argument, comparing and contrasting each author or text’s approach to this concept, topic, theme, or idea.
You have two options for choosing your texts to compare and contrast. You may choose two essays from your assigned course readings, and make note of a significant area of overlap between them in terms of their ideas, themes, arguments, or greater content.
Or, you may choose one of the assigned essays from our readings this semester, and one outside text, and compare and contrast these two readings. This option offers you the opportunity to draw on your own interests, and use an entirely different field of knowledge as part of your essay. However, make sure not to take on too much text!
The topic/area of overlap is entirely your choice, but it must be able to sustain a strong argument across a 3-4 page paper.
Using evidence from the two texts, and bringing together techniques honed in your previous essays, formulate a polemical and interpretive thesis about how these two essays, and/or their authors, compare with and differ from one another regarding the specific area of overlap you’ve chosen.
Support this argument by composing an essay that uses specific analysis of the two sources you’ve chosen.
First Draft Due Range: Sunday, Nov. 28 – Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021 by the end of the day (11:59 p.m.) via Blackboard
Topic Proposal Prompt
Before you proceed with composing your paper, you will need to propose your topic. This should be a brief (100-200 words) paragraph which introduces the essays you’ll be referencing and the area of overlap you’ve chosen to discuss. You should include:
- A brief discussion of the area of overlap between your two source essays, including what you find specifically interesting about the similarities and differences between them on this topic.
- As best as you can, a preliminary discussion of what you think you’ll be claiming about the similarities and differences between the essays’ approach to the topic. What is the significant difference? What’s important or interesting about it? Why does this matter?
Topic Proposal Due: Wednesday, Nov. 24 by the end of the day – (Typed, 12 pt. Times New Roman font)
First Draft Due Range: Sunday, Nov. 28 – Sunday, Dec. 5 by the end of the day (11:59 p.m.) via Blackboard
Optional Essay 3 Revisions Due Sunday, Dec. 12
Essay #3: Extended Compare and Contrast
Requirements
- Approval of Topic Proposal (see next page)
- 3-4 pages*, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman.
*3-4 pages means 3 full pages to 4 full pages
- MLA format must be utilized perfectly.
Assignment
While the combined acts of comparing and contrasting ideas may seem simple, they form the basis of strong critical and analytical thinking. Your primary goal in this assignment will be to use these skills to compose a concerted and convincing argument that draws a significant conclusion out of a discussion of the dissimilar among the similar.
PROMPT: Choose two texts/essays (at least one from our course readings) that include a similar area of overlap (a specific concept, topic, theme, or idea both texts share). Then, compose a unified essay, based on a thesis statement and central argument, comparing and contrasting each author or text’s approach to this concept, topic, theme, or idea.
You have two options for choosing your texts to compare and contrast. You may choose two essays from your assigned course readings, and make note of a significant area of overlap between them in terms of their ideas, themes, arguments, or greater content.
Or, you may choose one of the assigned essays from our readings this semester, and one outside text, and compare and contrast these two readings. This option offers you the opportunity to draw on your own interests, and use an entirely different field of knowledge as part of your essay. However, make sure not to take on too much text!
The topic/area of overlap is entirely your choice, but it must be able to sustain a strong argument across a 3-4 page paper.
Using evidence from the two texts, and bringing together techniques honed in your previous essays, formulate a polemical and interpretive thesis about how these two essays, and/or their authors, compare with and differ from one another regarding the specific area of overlap you’ve chosen.
Support this argument by composing an essay that uses specific analysis of the two sources you’ve chosen.
First Draft Due Range: Sunday, Nov. 28 – Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021 by the end of the day (11:59 p.m.) via Blackboard
Topic Proposal Prompt
Before you proceed with composing your paper, you will need to propose your topic. This should be a brief (100-200 words) paragraph which introduces the essays you’ll be referencing and the area of overlap you’ve chosen to discuss. You should include:
- A brief discussion of the area of overlap between your two source essays, including what you find specifically interesting about the similarities and differences between them on this topic.
- As best as you can, a preliminary discussion of what you think you’ll be claiming about the similarities and differences between the essays’ approach to the topic. What is the significant difference? What’s important or interesting about it? Why does this matter?
Topic Proposal Due: Wednesday, Nov. 24 by the end of the day – (Typed, 12 pt. Times New Roman font)
First Draft Due Range: Sunday, Nov. 28 – Sunday, Dec. 5 by the end of the day (11:59 p.m.) via Blackboard
Optional Essay 3 Revisions Due Sunday, Dec. 12
*Please note that I posted the essay 3 assignment and the topic proposal assignment for essay 3.
**You must have your topic proposal approved before you can start writing essay 3.
Mon 11/22 Read: Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” & Audre
Lorde, “Age, Race, Sex, and Class: Women Redefining Difference”
Read: Essay 3 and Topic Proposal Prompts – come to class with any questions
Wed 11/24 Work on Essay 3 Proposals – due tonight at midnight
- Essay 3 Proposal due today, Wednesday, 11/24 by 11:59 PM
- Essay #3 First draft due date range begins Sunday, 11/28
Mon 11/29 Read The Trayvon Generation; Exam preparation and practice
Wed 12/1 Work on Essay 3
- Essay #3 first draft due date range ends Sunday, 12/5*
*please let me know if you need a slight extension
!!!Hey everyone–
I posted/updated a few things on the course site:
- Essay 3 Prompt and Assignment
- Including Essay 3 Topic Proposal Prompt and Assignment
For Monday’s class, please read the 2 Audre Lorde essays AND the Essay 3+Topic Proposal Prompt.
weekly PROMPT ( ANSWER THIS SEPARATELY ON A GOOGLE DOCS FILE )
“You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto owned exclusively by men. You are able, though not without great effort, to pay the rent” (Woolf 89).
“…the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change” (Lorde 112).
With the two above quotations in mind, and referring to the texts themselves, compare and contrast Virginia Woolf’s and Audre Lorde’s understandings of and/or approaches to the advancement of women. Describe at least one significant similarity and one significant difference between these two writers. (~5 sentences)
How would you describe Lorde’s tone in these two essays? In comparison to Woolf’s?
What is one concept, idea, or assertion you didn’t understand in one or both of these short talks? Write it down so we can discuss.
Other than race, class, sex, age etc.(we know what these are) –– What are some of Audre Lorde’s major keywords––words she repeats over and over throughout these short essays? Define each in 1 or 2 sentences.
- Difference
- Patriarchy
- Feminism/Feminist
- Oppression
- Distortions
This is important to do because as many of these words have come into the mainstream in the last 30-40 years, they have lost some of their power and their original meanings — they’ve become buzzwords rather than keywords
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