T????????????????????his essay marks the culmination of your work in Lit 327 and is in place of a final exam. You have all week to work on this essay (hopefully that will show in the final product). Youre being asked to work with texts from either South Africa or Rwanda and from Nigeria to demonstrate that you have kept up with our coursework throughout the semester and that you can synthesize what youve read. Keep in mind all the feedback youve gotten, and look again at our general guidelines and rubric for what makes a strong essay. Your essay should meet the same formatting guidelines as in the past, but should be approx. 3 pgs long. First, read Binyavanga Wainainas essay How to Write about Africa. I hope you can hear his tone: hes being satirical about how the West usually writes about Africa in broad strokes with either negative stereotypes or romanticized generalizations. Then, using evidence from texts b
oth before and since the midterm essay (that is, from either unit 1???????????????????? or 2 and from unit 3), make the case for how those texts work against these stereotypes, reinforce these stereotypes, or do some combination of both. When youve decided which texts you want to use, work towards an original, debatable, specific claim that brings them together. Avoid claims that are too broad or that just restate the assignment. In other words, do more than argue that these two texts work against the stereotypes or whatever. To go beyond that, think about specificity: what specifically, is your idea that unites these two texts in answer to this question? What is your angle on it? i will also attach my midterm paper in which i received a b plus, professor is a difficult grader so please look at the example. Link to Binyavanga Wainainas essay How to Write about Africa Link to Nigeria text from this class needed