PART 1 - Reviewing the course goals:
o You need to have a thorough understanding of our course goals, written on page 6 of the blue Student Guide, to successfully meet the expectations of this course.
o Re-read the course goals, and write down your controlling purpose at the top of your word document you submit to me, before you formally start your essay.
PART 2 - Choosing a question to frame your essay:
o Choose one interpretive question to pursue in a formal essay-a piece of writing in which you are now writing to communicate, rather than writing to learn.
o Think of the interpretive question as an essay prompt that you have created for yourself-in this essay, you will pursue an answer to this question, and as you do so, you will create a clear and coherent interpretation of Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"
o As a result, this interpretive question should be meatier than just a one-sentence question: it should include an interpretive claim, cite a place in the text that supports that claim, and then build a question you will use to shape your essay