Harbor UCLA Medical Center Monologue in Twilight Los Angeles 1992 HW Pick the monologue in Anna Deavere-Smith’sTwlight that you find the most compelling an

Harbor UCLA Medical Center Monologue in Twilight Los Angeles 1992 HW Pick the monologue in Anna Deavere-Smith’sTwlight that you find the most compelling and write an analytical paper.You will be graded on your understanding of the historical context and your analysis of the speaker’s assertions. (1000-1200 words)

In the process, do the following:

1.Every essay has a thesis: the reason you are writing the essay. Be as specific as possible. An expository essay explains.

2. In that same first paragraph, give the reader a road map: an idea of the structural focus of your paper. You are like Sherlock Holmes explaining how you’ve solved the mystery. Give it all away in the thesis paragraph.

3. Then, in the body of the paper, prove it, prove it, prove it, with your details. Use your own structure to create topic sentences. But don’t repeat. Your goal: make sure every sentence demonstrates in an additional way your knowledge of the material. Thematic development is essentially the payoff for reading the essay. For example, if your thesis were that the sky above us here in Los Angeles is vast, the next time you return to that idea in the body of your paper, you might mention clouds, the next time, the nighttime stars. But don’t merely repeat. Make it new.

4. Do not omit unifying statements about how and why the speaker says and does things, often at the end of each paragraph. Why have you have focused on certain assertions?

5. Expand your close reading of the evidence. Do not offer unsupported generalizations.

6. At any given point, you may need some textual evidence to help secure your point. However, do not copy down any text without immediately following up with an explanation of its importance. In other words, you are copying the verbiage in order to explain something about it that a reader of your essay might not know otherwise. What you don’t say, the reader doesn’t know. Do not just repeat the verbiage of the text in your analysis.

5. Transitions: Rather than having a statement as a topic sentence, use an analytical sentence so it is clear how each paragraph is developing from one to the other.

6. Quotations: If a quote is indented, you do not need quotation marks. Copied text does not apply to the overall word count.