Write an essay in which you reveal the significance and importance of your discoveries in the author’s texts, interpreting them for readers who are trying to understand your author’s way of seeing and writing the world. Your essay will reveal elements of both form and content that make patterns in the way your author sees and writes the world. You will discover a relationship between several of these elements (you can visualize this relationship as a conceptual tension), in order to form a lens onto your author’s entire book (and by extension their entire body of work). A reader with a passing interest in your author should be able to read your essay and discover a key to that author’s work and mind. As with all creative intellectual work (work which asks your mind to create something new as well as reliable), this essay requires you to accept the challenge of synthesis. Your best chance of saying something both new and reliable is to be honest about the ways in which your pieces of evidence work in parallel: neither agreeing nor disagreeing with one another, but rather providing varying claims about the same object of inquiry. Rather than vainly attempting to prove that the various claims of your evidence do or do not agree (which would oversimplify and flatten the evidence), you must account for the various claims the evidence actually makes (this is the reliable part) and account for the way(s) in which the parallel truths the evidence presents can be thought of as valid at the same time (this is the creative part). Part of the challenge of writing this essay will be to organize your discoveries so that they are compelling. Do not take up the texts one at a time, one paragraph at a time for each text. Find a more interesting organizing principle. Group evidence from the essays by what the evidence itself reveals about the writer; see how the author’s essays talk to one another, how they fall into place in pairs or triplets. Organize the evidence in a way that will reveal and build your idea. Be guided always by the necessity to explain to us the hidden relationship between multiple parallel truths you have discovered about your author. Use these truths and their relationship to form a critical lens about your author that will help you (and your reader) discover an essential key to their work. Stylistic note: Passive constructions must be eradicated from your writing. Change passive constructions (i.e. “More racist comments were made.”) to active constructions (i.e. “Donald Trump made some more racist comments.”) Do you see why the active option is stronger? Look for “is” and “were” in your verb constructions and think of a clearer way to express your thought. Make sure we know who’s doing what.
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