This prospectus asks you to outline a tentative "plan" for your Essay 2, including your tentative thesis, your ideas for evidence, and how it all connects to the context for the assignment. Be sure to respond to questions 1-4 below in a REPLY to this posting by the assigned due date. I will respond to these and offer initial feedback/suggestions.
1.
At
this point, which text are you planning
to evaluate for the Essay 2 assignment and why? (Why does this particular
text stand out as one you want to work with and think will work well?)
2.
Identify
here your tentative thesis, or
overall claim. Are you recommending or
not recommending the text and based on
what criteria? (Why would the text
be useful or not useful for the purposes of your reader—the professor?)
3.
List
all of the evidence you can think of
that might help support your thesis (your recommendation to use or not use the
text based on your criteria). Provide
as much detail as possible.
A.
Relevant evidence from the
text (this
should be your primary form of evidence):
·
What
particular passages or aspects of your focus text can you use as evidence for
your thesis? Include direct quotes and
paraphrases and page number references in the text itself. [For instance, if you are recommending the
text because you think it would generate valuable discussion on conflicts between home and work life and how
they can be resolved, what particular
passages or parts of the text could be used as a basis for this discussion?]
·
Also,
provide an explanation of each piece of evidence just below where you list
it: Why/how does it help prove your
point about the text’s usefulness for your reader? [For instance, following the example above, explain specifically why
and how these passages or parts could
be used. Why would they be especially
useful to your reader?]
B.
Relevant evidence from
personal experience/observation, or from other texts:
·
What
personal evidence might you have that you can use as further support for your
recommendation? Also, what evidence
from other texts might help you make your point? [For instance, what experience or observation as a student,
reader, worker, researcher, etc. could you use?]
·
Again,
provide an explanation for why and how you think this personal or “outside”
evidence supports your thesis.
4.
Finally,
identify and discuss here any questions you have about the Essay 2
context/assignment. What would you like
to have clarified or discussed further?