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Using two of the texts from this unit—Richard Rodriguez “The Chinese in All of Us,” W.E.B. Du Bois “Of Our
Spiritual Strivings,” Manuel Muñoz’s “Leave Your Name at the Border," Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue." Jhumpa
Lahiri's “My Two Lives,” Plato's “The Allegory of the Cave,” Clay Shirky's “Gin, Television, and Social Surplus,"
Peggy Orenstein's “Think about Pink," James Franco's “The Meanings of the Selfie," Debby Herbenick and Aleta
Baldwin's "What Each of Facebook's Gender Options Means," Stuart Wolpert's “Crafting Your Image for Your
1,000 Friends on Facebook,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “Don't Let Facebook Make You Miserable." Douglas
Rushkoff's “A Brand by Any Other Name,” Jim Zarroli's “In Trendy World of Fast Fashion, Styles Aren't Made
to Last,” and Kalle Lasn's “The Cult You're In”-write an analytical essay that investigates the way(s) in which a
major marker of identity (race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class) is constructed or reinforced or
undermined or ignored or something else by the forces (textual productions, such as fashion, advertising, social
media, etc.) of popular culture. As you begin to think about your analytical approach to the topic, work to unify
your analysis around a central aspect of the issue/texts in other words, avoid an analytical strategy that raises
point after point with no recognizable relationship among them). To help you conduct your analysis (to set up,
promote, defend, etc. your points), you are required to cite ideas/themes/passages from two texts from this
unit. Remember to establish your points clearly and sharply and to deliberately cover and fully defend each and
every claim you raise. Finally, work to build your essay around a tight, unified analytical focus.
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To critically analyze and respond to the class readings in how they construct and present issues of identity;
To develop mastery of effective and correct source-incorporation strategies.
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A few things to consider:
Develop a focus for your essay before you begin the drafting process, perhaps conducting a couple of prewriting
exercises to help you generate and refine points that will become significant to your argument. Given the nature
of the assignment, this is a deeply important step, and one that should not be taken lightly. If you fail to decide
upon a clear strategy before you start writing, you will inevitably fashion a loosely structured, ineffective essay that
will not engage, let alone interest, the reader; ;
Make sure to develop a critical analytical approach that does much more than generically respond to the cited
texts. Develop your own critical approach to the established issue of the prompt and examine it using your own
critical thoughts along with some of the thoughts generated by the authors of the texts you choose to cite. In
other words, the passage(s) you cite from your chosen texts should play a strategic role in helping you achieve the
overarching purpose of your own analytical pursuits.
Focus on providing all of your ideas with full and sharp coverage; make sure that you establish clear and relevant
connections among all of your ideas/source citations;
Work to create cogent introductory and concluding paragraphs and unified, cohesive body paragraphs. Carefully
examine each paragraph to determine how it is focused, structured, sequenced, and developed (do you have a
strategy for each trait? You should.);
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3 - 4 Pages (Any essay short of the length requirement will be penalized. The severity of the penalty is determined
by how short the essay falls of the length requirement. Although I typically do not penalize essays that exceed the
length requirement, for this essay I want everyone to make careful choices with their material and thus generate
compact, precise essays. In other words, stay around the 4-page maximum);
State which prompt you are responding to in your heading; ;
Clearly contextualize the issue, or an aspect of the issue, under analytical consideration in your essay, and directly
announce your analytical approach/focus (thesis). These actions will generally take place early in the essay, usually
in the introductory paragraph or the first body paragraph;
As stated in the prompt, cite (correctly and effectively) two of the class texts in your essay. Incorporate at least
one but no more than two citations from each text;
Provide a closing response/final assessment. This will almost always take place in the final paragraph
conclusion). Make sure to do more than restate your introduction.
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