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For paper two, you developed an original claim in response to Anzaldua’s “Towards a Mestiza Rhetoric…”.. For paper three, we will read variety of new texts including two articles, a poem, a short story, and a book. Your goal with this essay is to identify a specific opportunity for conversation in the set of texts below and develop an original and interesting claim (likely in response to a question emerging from your sense of the opportunity for conversation). Remember that an opportunity for conversation can be a gap, tension, contradiction, ambiguity, or difficulty in the texts or the subject of the text. While the opportunity for conversation in your second paper was necessarily located within Anzaldua’s essay, you can tackle a slightly broader issue for this essay; your evidence is limited to the texts listed below. Please choose at least two of the “new” texts.

Note that your final draft must be a minimum of 1250 words and include MLA style citation.

Essentially, by choosing the sources that you will work with, you are setting up a conversation between the authors about the play. Then, you are ready to enter into that conversation and make your unique claim in response to what the other authors are saying/doing.

Tip: A strong claim is an answer to a complex question. You might find it useful to begin this assignment by formulating a question and drafting your essay by pursuing the question through close analysis of passages from the assigned texts. You can then revise your draft so it is organized to support your claim.

Texts:

Articles

“The Man Made of Words” by N. Scott Momaday

Poem

“Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” by Robert M. Chute

Book

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

Short Story

“Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang

Old articles----- you may choose to work with these

“Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric: Gloria Anzaldúa on Composition and Postcoloniality” by Andrea Lunsford

“The Arts of the Contact Zone” by Mary Louise Pratt

Your paper should be at least 1250 words.

Your rough and final drafts should be formatted according to MLA guidelines, which you can find at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Reminder: the process

Find your opportunity

Translate what’s happening

React

Respond: make an arguable statement (someone could respond to your claim), make a unique statement (say something nobody has said before), make a complex statement (in response to what others are saying), make a specific statement (focus in that way nobody can catch you for being too general, and you can show your reader more clearly what you’re trying to say and why).

Once you have done all of this, it’s time to ‘prove your claim’ by writing- see the posted outline for how to make that happen.