ANALYSIS PAPER FOR HUMANITIES

Suggested Outline (Public Article or Scholarly Article)
• Introduction to the topic and its importance/relevance (250 words)
o What is the overarching argument that the author is trying to prove in this reading?
o Introduce us to any key terms that we need to know to understand the text
o Include the author’s background/perspective and how this impacts their approach to the topic.
o Include a thesis statement that previews your response or argument about this piece
• Delve deep into your favorite sub-section or sub-argument. (500 words)
o What is the argument of this section? How does it support/prove the overarching argument?
o What are 2 of the key pieces of evidence presented that support overarching argument?
• Response/Analysis (500 words)
o Use additional sources or supplemental materials to build your response
o Potential areas of disagreement with you
o Overall takeaways/discussion
Suggested Outline (Short Story or Film)
• Introduction (250 words)
o Brief overview of your text’s plot
o Author’s purpose in engaging with a social issue
o Thesis statement: your arguable, focused, sufficiently complex “take” on how the book engages with this social issue OR how you will use a particular discipline (history/philosophy/communications) to expand our understanding of this short story/movie
• Lit Review (250 words)
o Lay out the context of your social issue using 1 or 2 of your articles (depending on your choices of articles)
o Frame it explicitly as the argument made by the specific author of the article (This helps you maintain clear boundaries in the “dialogue” or conversation between your argument and the sources you are integrating)
• Close Reading 1 (250 words)
o Identify particularly compelling scenes from the story or movie that can help prove your argument about the text
o Provide more depth on the relationship between the scenes and the social issue (integrate your research)
• Close Reading 2 (250 words)
• Conclusion (250 words)
o How should we be thinking about the social issue now? How does your particular analysis of the short story/movie help us to ultimately think about the social issue?
NOTE: As you search for appropriate sources to help you with this assignment, I strongly encourage you to think about your text (short story, philosophical argument, etc.) in an interdisciplinary fashion. Adopt a historical perspective or a philosophical perspective on “The Yellow Wallpaper” (those would produce quite different arguments!). Maybe if you were interested in Jeff McMahan’s ethical/philosophical reasoning about eating animals, you could fold in a communications perspective on how food advertising works.
2500 words
Submit your final essay here. Due by the end of the semester.
The essay should be approximately 2500 words.
It MUST include MLA in-text citations for your primary text and 2 outside sources as well as an MLA Works Cited. Please consult Purdue OWL for help with both of these requirements.
Please review the attached rubric. Email me with any questions.

This is the “Module Summary and Responses” to expand into a 2500 word essay. This analysis should integrate at least 2 additional academic/professional sources and consider that text through an interdisciplinary lens.
****Please use the below to incorporate into 2500 essay. MLA, with 2 at least two academic sources. “subject” or subjectivity?***

In Chapters 3 & 4 of The Theory Toolbox, you will learn about theories about the reader as a source of meaning if notions of the author and authority are contested. How do we understand the activity of reading? How does the act of reading produce what is known as a “subject” or subjectivity? What is the relationship between the subject and the object (the text)?
MY RESPONSE BELOW.
As we understand Chapter 3 and 4, the activity of reading, is understanding and interpreting the text of the author. In other words, the reader interprets text on their own, with their own opinion. The act of reading produces what is known as subject or subjectivity; according to our text “subject’ is just another elegant word for self” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 36) whereas “subject” is defined as an understanding of our identity as it applies to social law, which we must answer too.” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 37) In essence, “subject” different from “self’ is an understanding, which references preexistent social circumstances and classes” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 37).
Subjects or selves are a make-up of certain identifiers; “race, class, gender of ethnicity” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 40). The “self” is always the pilot that is flying the aircraft, whereas “subject” is viewed as the airline passenger” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 38) The “self” is in control of making things happen and “subject” reacts to how things happen” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 38) If the “pilot/self” is not in full operation of the plane, and the plane loses course this would cause “self/subject” to react to their actions. For one to say they are not individually affected by their culture would not reign true.
An individual (self) remains subject to their culture by just being a part of that culture or society. Subjectivity vs objectivity, to be subjective is “relative to a person or persons own opinions”, whereas objectivity references a “fact” and is not solely dependent on a person interpretation. (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012). The points highlighted in these chapters are reading, the reader, the author, self, subject, subjectivity, I would say you truly can’t address one without the other.
In reflection, I would have never placed these points together nor how they go together before reading this text. I now see how they all corollate with who we are and how we interpret who we are and how who we are effects how we identify culturally. All the points I highlighted are a form of communication, reading when I read what an author has written, I allow the text to communicate to me, however as self I am in control of my interpretation of what I read. In conclusion, I hold to the fact that we are all individuals that make up our cultural, therefore we are all effected and impacted by our own opinions and culture.

WORKS CITED
Nealon, J., & Giroux Searls, S. (2012). The Theory Toolbox; Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. Lanham: Rowmand & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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