solved Essay length: 5 pages Format: MLA (for guidelines, please visit
Essay length: 5 pages Format: MLA (for guidelines, please visit OWL Purdu. In this short essay I would like you to explore ONE central topic in the readings we’ve done so far. This topic needs to be derived from research and secondary academic sources. I strongly recommend that you use Jstor.org, which is accessible through your institution, i.e. the College of Staten Island. You can watch a tutorial on how to use Jstor with the following link: https://guides.jstor.org/c.php?g=470313&p=8293050 For this essay I will ask that you find TWO secondary sources that you will connect to one of the two books we read so far: Aimé Césaire’s Notebooks of a Return to the Native Land, and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy. The first step is to think of a topic and there are several ways you can do this. One of them is to go back to your weekly responses and see which one might make a good essay. Once you have an idea of what you want to write on, you can start doing keyword searches on Jstor and see what secondary source might be useful. Another way to do this is to start on Jstor and to explore what has been written on either book. You can gather several essays, download them as PDFs and read through the ones that seem most interesting. This is a short essay, so I’m asking you to be specific and structured in your writing. What I want to see is an analysis that makes use of secondary sources that you then connect to the primary source and where you quote all three documents. A good way to do this is to follow this format: -Introduction of the topic, of the book, and of the two secondary sources-Brief overview of both secondary sources in one or two paragraph-Connection between the essays and chosen passages of the book you are writing about. This is where your analysis comes in, i.e. how are you applying the concepts of the essays to specific passages of the book. The more passages you have, the more you have to write about. Each paragraph should include at least one quote-Conclusion on what you have discovered along the way. I don’t want a repetition of what you did, but a synthesis of the essay’s purpose and what the reader is supposed to gain from it-Works Cited page, in MLA format.