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The first file is assignment requirement. The rest are readings and term definitions. Please get the thesis and outline back to me in 3 hours. Please don’t start writing the essay until the thesis and outline are approved. Thank you!

Here are the instructions:

Paper 3

DUE FRIDAY, MAY 1st, to Blackboard.

For your final paper (5-6 pages long, 12-point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins), you will put two of our literary course texts into conversation with each other. You may use any of the following: The Ladies’ Paradise, “Tony Takitani,” From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, “Real Women Have Bodies,” Green Girl.

You may not use any material from your previous essay, but you may use what you yourself posted on our course discussion forum.

Your paper should compare and/or contrast the two works, focusing on a single idea that links or distinguishes them. You should prove your thesis with close readings from each text. You may use a critical idea from one of the essays we read alongside these texts (Elizabeth Wilson, Tanisha Ford, Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Minh-Ha Pham, Sheila Heti, Tavi Gevinson) if you choose, but you are not required to do so.

Focus on one of the following topics that we’ve been thinking about throughout the semester:

  1. Representations of gender and/or sexuality
  2. Fashion as a form of class mobility (or a demonstration of its difficulty/impossibility)
  3. Commodities and fetishism (working with or revising Marx’s definition)
  4. Fashion as labor, virtual and/or material (working with or revising Pham and/or Gevinson)
  5. Fashion as prosthetic body (possibly working with Wilson and/or Benjamin’s ideas of fashion as death-like)

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As you write your paper, remember to look at the following checklist, and at my grading rubric on Blackboard. Make sure you can identify how you’re meeting each expectation.

Guidelines:

1.Clear, strong thesis.

a.Are you interpreting the text as opposed to merely describing it? In other words, is your thesis something someone who has read the book could possibly disagree with?

b.Does your thesis include answers to at least two of the three questions “how, what, and why”?

c.Does your introduction define and explain the critical idea you are using clearly and concisely? Have you defined all the key terms in your thesis?

d.Is your thesis clearly located at the end of the introduction?

2.Good use of evidence.

a.Did you select quotes from the text that appropriately support your thesis?

b.Did you provide adequate context for them?

c.Did you go on to explain how they prove your thesis?

3.Unified, coherent paragraphs.

a.Does each paragraph begin with a clear proposition that supports, defends, or explains part of your thesis (or provides a counter-argument that you will later refute)?

b.Does each paragraph have a single topic?

c.Does each sentence flow logically from the one before?

d.Are you using appropriate transitional words and phrases?

4.Clear, direct, readable language.

a.Did you use active voice (as opposed to passive voice) whenever possible?

b.Are your sentences clear and concise, using appropriate introductory and signal phrases to orient your arguments?

c.Is your grammar correct? Is your punctuation correct?