Assignment:
Paper Assignment:
Examine and fully explain several concepts from the frame and their relation to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Also examine and fully explain several concepts from the case and their relation to the GFC. How can the frames concepts help us understand and extend and/or contradict and learn something new about the cases concepts vis-à-vis the GFC? What does case tell us or uncover about the frame's concepts? Your final thesis should use the frame's concepts to extend, critique, or clarify the case's concepts.
You may also form a synthesis but this should also create new knowledge and there should be a clear reason for the synthesis (i.e., the yield is greater than the sum of the parts). You may also draw from the cases we have covered for additional evidence. It should not be compare and contrast or simply say they are the same or different. It should clearly outline why your findings are significant. The essay should be a full five (onto sixth page) to seven pages double-spaced. Include an engaging title.
Abstract
At the beginning of your final paper, you must include an abstract that takes the topic sentence from each of your paragraphs (including your introduction which contains your thesis) and places this in a single paragraph. This should then be read to understand the flow of your argument. If this paragraph jumps around or seems to not link into a logical, linear development then you should work on the organization of your essay.
This assignment builds on what you learned in ENG 102 utilizing the frame/case methodology. You will use one text, the frame (the alternatives listed), to analyze another text, the case (Wray), to learn something new about Wray and perhaps (in the best papers) about the alternative texts. As with ENG 102, do not slip into compare and contrast papers. Instead, use one of the alternatives to diagnose and analyze Wray, as a doctor would use an MRI to diagnose your condition or an economist would use a model to understand the financial crisis. The result is not simply a cataloguing but rather a path to understanding with the possibility of deeper understanding. Compare and contrast papers are boring and represent a lower level of analysis and your grade will reflect this. I do not want you to tell me they are the same or different unless you can clearly tell me why this is significant.
Your thesis statement should be revised AFTER you have written your draft, so you can easily see what you have proven. What can you tell the reader that isn't obvious? You must have a problem to solve, distinct controversial idea to prove, or a unique idea that analyzes the topic. You ARE NOT comparing essays. You ARE NOT summarizing essays. Your essay must include a thesis statement that will state your position, conflict, and intent.
Your audience: another student in this class, one who knows some basic conceptual elements from the course but needs to be reminded of terminology and how it all fits together. This means an excellent strategy is to have someone else from the class read your paper!
To write a successful essay, you need to:
• define the terms that you use in each paragraph;
• include a thesis that explains what you are arguing;
• take intellectual risks and pursue a deeper understanding of the period;
• include an engaging title reflective of your argument;
• include a clearly stated thesis that explains what you are arguing and relates to both the frame and the case;
• use and explain multiple extended quotations from both the frame and the case;
• include proper (correct!) citation (either MLA and Chicago Style or permission for another);
• explain connections between the texts;
• a conclusion that reviews your thesis and how you supported it; and
• be relatively free of grammatical and syntax errors.
TYPE directly below the numbers.
1. Write a provisional topic sentence. (Your topic sentence should explain what your paragraph will argue. You may change it, after you have written the body of the paragraph.)
2. Introduce the quotation from framing text. (Your introduction to the quotation should give the context of the quotation and explain who wrote it. A very good quotation also leads into the argument. For example: Bartholomae and Petrosky employ sexist language when they write, "...." (page number) or Bartholomae and Petrosky provide a new way of reading, when they suggest "...." (page number).
3. Quotation from framing text:
4. Explanation about what the quotation means to your argument and transition to the next quotation from the case text. (This may be one or more sentences).
5. Introduction to quotation from case text. (See for how to write a good introduction to a quotation):
6. Quotation from case text:
7. Connection: How are the two quotations connected? How do they prove your point in your topic sentence? Usually you will write three or four sentences.