This assignment should be written as aformal business memo to your instructor and cover all of the below criteria. (There is a Memo Writing Tutorial in Chapter 21 of our textbook.) The text of your memo should be a minimum of 200 polished, edited words.
Feel free to use memo template for this and other assignments.
Review Chapter 1 of our textbook, focusing specifically on two sections: “Characteristics of Workplace Writing” and “Six Reader-Centered Strategies You Can Begin Using Now.”
Referring to the information you read about in the textbook, compare the strategies used to make the sites useful and persuasive, and note ways their usefulness or persuasiveness might be increased. Refer to specific terminology discussed in the textbook.
Finally — to conclude your memo — having compared both websites, discuss which one is stronger and give a detailed, reasoned analysis for your assertion.
You can see the instructions in the attached file. You have done an analysis of the two cases previously. I just want you to write a contrast paper for the two cases.
The instructions:
In comparing the cases, notice how a subtle difference in the facts can completely alter the outcome. The comparison should focus on the differences in the cases. There is no required format for the contrast.
You can also use the brief papers you wrote previously to write the contrast paper.
Just remember:
-follow the instructions
–Single space
-Font times new roman size 12
-one page only
English 298: African American Literature, Response Paper 1
Prompt:
The problem of racial identity in the United States is one of the major themes we’ve discussed during class thus far. This problem manifests itself in African American literature as what we’ve come to call the Black subjectivity debate / dialectic. The debatable meaning of Black subjectivity in the United States stems from race’s instability as a social construct. For this paper, briefly discuss your understanding of what makes race problematic as a social construct and then demonstrate your understanding by comparing how two of the assigned readings we’ve discussed thus far differ in their interpretations of Blackness… despite both being written by African American writers. Your analysis must hinge on direct quotations and examples from the texts you decide to analyze. Only use assigned course texts as your sources for this paper.
Course Texts:
Gates, Henry Louis. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes were Watching God.
5-7 pages in length (This means at least 5 full pages of text, not 4.5 or 4.75)
Week 1 W 22 Jan Class Introduction Week 2 W 29 Jan WEBDu Bois excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk, “The Forethought” and “Of Our Spiritual Strivings.” Booker T. Washington excerpts from Up From Slavery, Chapter Fourteen: “The Atlanta Exposition Address” and “Struggle for an Education.”Week 3 W 5 Feb Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Week 4 W 12 Feb Harriet Jacobs excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Frederick Douglass excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.Week 5 W 19 Feb Charles Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine,” “The Passing of Grandison,” and “The Wife of His Youth.” Week 6 W 26 Feb Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Chapters 1-10) Week 7 W 4 Mar Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Chapters 11-Afterword) Week 8 W 11 Mar Spring Break – No ClassSu 15 Mar Midterm Exam (Complete on Canvas by 11:59pm)Week 9 W 18 Mar Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “On Imagination,” “To His Excellency General Washington,” and “On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield.” Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Ode to Ethiopia,” “An Ante-Bellum Sermon,” “When Malindy Sings,” and “We Wear the Mask.”Week 10 W 25 Mar Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” “To The White Fiends,” “Africa,” “America,” “My Mother,” and “Outcast.” Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mother to Son,” “Danse Africaine,” “The Weary Blues,” and “I, Too.” Week 11 W 1 Apr James Baldwin introductory notes and “Notes of a Native Son” and “Sonny’s Blues.”
English 298: African American Literature, Response Paper 1
Prompt:
The problem of racial identity in the United States is one of the major themes we’ve discussed during class thus far. This problem manifests itself in African American literature as what we’ve come to call the Black subjectivity debate / dialectic. The debatable meaning of Black subjectivity in the United States stems from race’s instability as a social construct. For this paper, briefly discuss your understanding of what makes race problematic as a social construct and then demonstrate your understanding by comparing how two of the assigned readings we’ve discussed thus far differ in their interpretations of Blackness… despite both being written by African American writers. Your analysis must hinge on direct quotations and examples from the texts you decide to analyze. Only use assigned course texts as your sources for this paper.
Course Texts:
Gates, Henry Louis. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes were Watching God.
MLA style works cited page at the end of the paper
Page numbers and your last name in the upper right-hand corner of every page
5-7 pages in length (This means at least 5 full pages of text, not 4.5 or 4.75)
Week 1 W 22 Jan Class Introduction Week 2 W 29 Jan WEBDu Bois excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk, “The Forethought” and “Of Our Spiritual Strivings.” Booker T. Washington excerpts from Up From Slavery, Chapter Fourteen: “The Atlanta Exposition Address” and “Struggle for an Education.”Week 3 W 5 Feb Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Week 4 W 12 Feb Harriet Jacobs excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Frederick Douglass excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.Week 5 W 19 Feb Charles Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine,” “The Passing of Grandison,” and “The Wife of His Youth.” Week 6 W 26 Feb Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Chapters 1-10) Week 7 W 4 Mar Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Chapters 11-Afterword) Week 8 W 11 Mar Spring Break – No ClassSu 15 Mar Midterm Exam (Complete on Canvas by 11:59pm)Week 9 W 18 Mar Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “On Imagination,” “To His Excellency General Washington,” and “On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield.” Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Ode to Ethiopia,” “An Ante-Bellum Sermon,” “When Malindy Sings,” and “We Wear the Mask.”Week 10 W 25 Mar Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” “To The White Fiends,” “Africa,” “America,” “My Mother,” and “Outcast.” Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mother to Son,” “Danse Africaine,” “The Weary Blues,” and “I, Too.” Week 11 W 1 Apr James Baldwin introductory notes and “Notes of a Native Son” and “Sonny’s Blues.”
