In this ambiguity analysis assignment, you need to:
• Identify an ISSUE (An Issue = an ambiguity in the text; a question a text raises for which it provides no clear or obvious answer) found in fictional story, movie, TV show, or song. You need to provide your answer to the question in the thesis statement and use the body paragraphs to document and defend your interpretation or answer to the question with direct quotes from the text you selected.
• This assignment is not to be understood as a book report. I want you find a question, select a position or claim about its answer, and then use evidence from the text in order to support your point of view, thus enhancing your reader’s understanding of the text as a whole. Your answer to the question will become the thesis statement.
Your essay should include the following parts:
Introduction: this is where you introduce the piece you are analyzing and mention the concept you have pulled out of the text. You will need a brief summary of the text you are analyzing (no more than 3/4 of the introduction paragraph).
• Thesis: You must make a claim as to the answer to a textual ambiguity. What is the “hidden” meaning or idea behind this media? Be as specific as possible with your examples.
• Body:
o Analysis of your Issue based in a very close reading/review of the text itself. Try to find two different examples of how the story, movie, song, etc, prove your answer to the question in the text. (Hint: look at how the main character(s) proves your idea in one paragraph and then discuss how other characters, setting, action itself, etc. also proves this idea.) This section should contain at least two separate paragraphs discussing two separate examples of your answer.
o Make sure you support your ideas with quotes from the material and cite your source material correctly.
• Conclusion: this where you explore the social impact/value/result of your answer to the question in the text. Come to a conclusion about the importance of this answer. Why is reading the text in your way important for all readers?
• Works Cited: You will need to include a works cited page in MLA format, along with proper in-text citations for all of your paraphrases and/or direct quotations.
Length: Please get onto Page 4! (in any capacity; no, citations do not count)
In this ambiguity analysis assignment, you need to:
• Identify an ISSUE (An Issue = an ambiguity in the text; a question a text raises for which it provides no clear or obvious answer) found in fictional story, movie, TV show, or song. You need to provide your answer to the question in the thesis statement and use the body paragraphs to document and defend your interpretation or answer to the question with direct quotes from the text you selected.
• This assignment is not to be understood as a book report. I want you find a question, select a position or claim about its answer, and then use evidence from the text in order to support your point of view, thus enhancing your reader’s understanding of the text as a whole. Your answer to the question will become the thesis statement.
Your essay should include the following parts:
Introduction: this is where you introduce the piece you are analyzing and mention the concept you have pulled out of the text. You will need a brief summary of the text you are analyzing (no more than 3/4 of the introduction paragraph).
• Thesis: You must make a claim as to the answer to a textual ambiguity. What is the “hidden” meaning or idea behind this media? Be as specific as possible with your examples.
• Body:
o Analysis of your Issue based in a very close reading/review of the text itself. Try to find two different examples of how the story, movie, song, etc, prove your answer to the question in the text. (Hint: look at how the main character(s) proves your idea in one paragraph and then discuss how other characters, setting, action itself, etc. also proves this idea.) This section should contain at least two separate paragraphs discussing two separate examples of your answer.
o Make sure you support your ideas with quotes from the material and cite your source material correctly.
• Conclusion: this where you explore the social impact/value/result of your answer to the question in the text. Come to a conclusion about the importance of this answer. Why is reading the text in your way important for all readers?
• Works Cited: You will need to include a works cited page in MLA format, along with proper in-text citations for all of your paraphrases and/or direct quotations.
Length: Please get onto Page 4! (in any capacity; no, citations do not count)