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One of the central objectives of your first essay is that you demonstrate a careful and attentive analysis of one topic through one of the short stories from Unit One. Another central objective is that you demonstrate the ability to integrate a quotation aptly.

Your second post will do two things:

1) Tell us which story you’ll be writing about and the theme you’d like to trace. For example, Francine’s character‘s change in “Vienne” or the symbolism of music in “Sonny’s Blues” or the effect of the narrator’s point of view in “Lusus Naturae” or the representation of setting in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” etc…

But, you will also…

2) Propose an argument.

How do I do that, you ask? Start by choosing the most significant quote from your chosen essay and integrate it into your blog post to show evidence as well as attention to proper MLA citation. A sentence (or three) might read something like this:

While Woolf’s narrator posits herself as “an enormous eye, a central oyster of perceptiveness,” in other words, an image of genderless, disembodied neutrality,  it is still evident she wants her reader to realize the trappings of gender because she frames her narrator’s walk around the purpose of buying a pencil (Woolf 24). Buying commodities, or participating in consumer culture is clearly a marker that the narrator is female. However, the fact that it is a pencil she wants, suggests her liberation as a woman who writes.

Get the idea?

For practice, please also include your MLA works cited entry for the short story you have chosen at the end of your post.

By the end of this post, you will have killed two birds with one stone. You will have demonstrated the ability to do thoughtful quotation integration, AND you will have started to figure out what your paper will be about.

Finally, quotation integration is just that. The quote needs to be surrounded by your own words. Do not leave a quote hanging out on its own. At the very least, give it an intro like this:

In his essay “Archiving,” Michael Sheringham states, ” A city is a memory machine” (Sheringham 10).

Note my attention to MLA punctuation. Do the same.

Post due by class time on Tuesday 9/17.