About this Project
In this author study, you will develop an argument about the writer’s work.
You’re not aiming for a biography of the writer or a summary of the work you’ve read.
Rather, you want to say something important about how the writer uses a particular theme, idea, or event. You want something substantial. A thesis statement could look something like this: In the memoir, The Children of the Land, Marcel Hernandez Castillo challenges preconceptions of DREAMers to varying degrees of success.
This author study (2 – 3 pages) should make a strong argument and use textual evidence. Careful attention to the material and a strong thesis are essential, but you should also plan to attend to writing conventions that assist your argument, such as topic sentences, transitions, and mechanics of presentation.
I encourage you to consider your pre-readings about masculinity and trauma as well as any of the author’s poetry (he is primarily a poet and a lot of his work can be found online).
Please include a Works Cited page.
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