Blog Post #5 (Due Saturday, 4/14)

For this post, you will need to go to the:

Scholarly Articles Part 2 Folder (under "Content" in BB)

You'll find

"Oleanna Articles" there. You can skim the abstracts to decide which article most appeals to you. You will use one article (meaning you quote from it at least several times) in your response to the Play. You can analyze the play using any framework/method you want (you'll notice the methodology the critics are using in their analysis). You need to quote from the play itself and your chosen article. I don't care whether you choose an article you agree with, disagree with, or both. You can challenge ideas put forth by the critics; you can use quotes from the article as evidence to support your points; you can use them simply to illustrate something (meaning it's not part of a claim/evidence sequence); you can use them to open or close your discussion; you can use them to show (but perhaps not critique) an alternate view of the play (or use several readings to establish the various scholarly views on the play).  

The paragraph above lists the main reasons you will/would use scholarly articles in your own writing. This is a skill you will refine in your revision of Paper #2 -- in the draft, make sure you get them "in" the paper; you can hone implementation/use further in a revision.

 I am posting some of my own thoughts on Oleanna here as well, as a way of entering into more thorough discussion than we might have in class. 

***These articles are taken from several literary databases available online through the MCC library. I highlighted the best ones in class. For your paper, you will want to go to the Literature Resource Center first, then try Literary Criticism, then McGill on Literature Plus. You can also try JSTOR though it's not a literary database per se.)