Assignment 4: Developing a Critical Interpretive

ENG101, SPRING 2016 Assignment 4: Developing a Critical Interpretive Essay DUE IN CONFERENCE – ONE HARD COPY TO ME IN PERSON, ONE DIGITAL COPY POSTED ONLINE 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. FOR NEXT CLASS, BRING: Be prepared for a peer review activity. You will need 3 HARD COPIES (one to hand into me, and two for peer reviewers) of your completed interpretive essay. Also bring your Student Reader, The DK Handbook, and the blue Student Guide.