Final Paper

Please send me your paper idea (#3 & 4) via e-mail before you start to write. The final paper is due 2/8 via e-mail as an attachment (MS Word or PDF).

1. Review your notes and readings from the whole semester. Write down a few keywords that will help you remember what you thought was most interesting in our readings and class discussions.

2. Brainstorm some possible ways to compare and contrast two of the semester’s texts. Think about similarities and differences, what examples might work, which are most interesting to you.

3. Choose one of the possibilities above for a compare and contrast paper. Write what you can here about the idea: more details, more about why you are interested.

4. Now think about the real analysis part of comparison and contrast: the “why” part. Why do you think these two texts have these similarities and/or differences? What do these similarities and/or differences mean when we look at the two texts together?

5. Now look at your last paper and comments. Read over the comments and think about them. Do you want to talk about any of these ideas in your final paper? How can you keep in mind the comments when you work on your final paper (if there are some hints for improvement in #4, keep them in mind).