Writing Homework Help

Step 1: develop a subject of interest

Step 2: find out more about the subject (preliminary research)

Step 3: develop an inquiry question/find a “They” to respond to (or both)

Step 4: find the important terms and voices in that specific topic

Step 5: develop a bibliography

Step 6: draft a bad first draft/freewriting

Step 7: revise the BFD into a full draft

Please use the library website (www.mclennan.edu/library) for the sources. Only use sources scholarly sources between 2017-2021.

One in-text citation for every body paragraph

No plagiarism

Please write the literary theory essay on “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” which I have attached. Please be sure to carefully follow the instructions.

Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author: Hurston

Edition: NA

Publisher: Amistad

ISBN: 978-0061120060

Purpose: For this assignment, we’re going to try to put it all together. In the first essay, you practiced analysis (taking the parts of the text apart, examining them, and then explaining/showing how and why they fit or matter in the way they’re made and put together). For the quizzes and discussions, I’ve been pushing you to start to think about interpretation (what, how, and why these elements create meaning in terms of the text/context/subtext/metatext) and evaluation (what we SHOULD think or judge about these in terms of worth, values, etc).

Now, we’re going to exercise our engagement in which YOU write a persuasive essay in which you present a thesis and develop a well-supported argument that interprets an author’s writings from one of the following major schools of literary criticism (new criticism/formalism, reader-response, feminism, Marxism, psycho-analytic/psychological analysis). You may choose from any of the assigned readings from this course (full list on the syllabus). You may not write about a reading that you have already used for a writing assignment in this course.

You CAN, however, focus on using this argument to direct the meaning/importance of literary or critical reading, writing, and thinking in ways OUTSIDE of just a literature class. So, if you want to use your paper to explore and argue for connections between literary theory/practice and your major, career, and/or life, then please do.

Remember, studying literature and literary theory should not exist in isolation of the “real” world. Looking at literature in these ways gives us valuable lenses into our ACTUAL worlds that we NEED to care about.