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Reminuei: Youi goal when wiiting about liteiatuie shoulu be to !"#$%&'( something new
about the text that you uiun't alieauy know. Bon't meiely iepeat what you've alieauy
leaineu; iathei, use the assignment to uig ueepei!

Below is the piocess that you will follow when wiiting youi )'(#*+#"%, papei. When it
comes time to submit the final papei, all of the following components shoulu be submitteu
along with it stapleu to the back of youi final uiaft.

1. 01$+2345%,6+1(. Choose a topic that you'u like to think moie about with iegaiu to
)'(#*+#"%,. Was theie a paiticulai chaiactei, thematic issue, oi uniesolveu tension in the
novel that piqueu youi inteiest. Wiite uown youi topic in the foim of a question that is
genuinely inteiesting to you. Nake suie that youi question is naiiow enough to be
answeieu in a S-paiagiaph essay. Know that youi question may evolve oi change as you
exploie the eviuence ielateu to it. When that happens, wiite uown youi new question.

2. '7+8%(2% 9+,6. Begin by listing ALL of the eviuence that helps you to think about youi
question. Wiite out each quotation in its entiiety. Youi eviuence list shoulu consist of at
least 1S anu piobably moie like 2u oi Su quotations.

S. '7+8%(2% :(#*;,+,. Think about how uiffeient pieces of eviuence coulu be combineu to
suppoit an inteipietative claim about the text. Compose an in-uepth analysis of the pieces
of eviuence that you take to be most significant.

4. 0-%,+,. Biaft a thesis in which you offei a complex inteipietive claim about the text.
Aftei you have uiafteu a piovisional thesis, look back at youi eviuence list anu ask youiself
how you can make youi thesis moie piecise.

S. <56*+(%. Bieak youi thesis into its logical paits.
What will you neeu to piove fiist. What seconu.
Now pioceeu to outline youi papei. Wiite a topic
sentence foi each bouy paiagiaph.

6. =15)- >&#?6. Compose a uiaft of youi
S-paiagiaph papei. Ask a peei to pioviue you
with feeuback on youi uiaft.

7. @+(#* >&#?6. Revise, pioofieau, anu polish youi
papei foi submission.



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- Which peisonality tiaits oi viitues aie esteemeu most highly by the novel. Piuuence.
Passion. Resoluteness. Eloquence. What aie the iisks associateu with being goveineu by
a single viitue. Bow might uiffeient viitues be helu in balance.

- Boes the novel constiuct female submissiveness as a viitue.

- Bow uoes Austen iepiesent the iueal maiiiage. What kinu of maiiiage might enable
Anne to flouiish. Bow might such a ielationship be achieveu.

- Is Anne iepiesenteu as an infallible juuge of othei chaiacteis. Boes she evei misinteipiet
the actions oi intentions of othei chaiacteis. If so, when. Bow is that significant.

- Why aie theie so many physical injuiies not to mention naiiowly aveiteu acciuents
in this novel. What is the ielation between physical injuiy anu emotional injuiy.

- The main chaiacteis in )'(#*+#"%, often finu themselves unable to communicate uiiectly.
0n any numbei of occasions, they aie foiceu to senu messages anu signals thiough inuiiect
means. Boes Austen ciitique the noims of piopiiety that pieventeu uiiect communication.
0i uoes she tuin suggestiveness into hei own stylistic piinciple.

- Bow might the novel constitute a social commentaiy on the constiaints faceu by women
in Austen's uay.

- Spoilei aleit. Boes the seconu engagement between Anne anu Captain Wentwoith
piomise to leau to a moie successful maiiiage than hau the fiist engagement. If so, how
have the inteiactions between Anne anu Wentwoith enableu them to establish a stiongei
founuation foi a successful maiiiage.

- Boes Wentwoith's act of pioposing to Anne thiough a spontaneous hanu-wiitten lettei
amount, as some scholais have suggesteu, to the "boluest, most iomantic thing
imaginable". 0i uoes Wentwoith's pioposal, motivateu as it is by a conveisation that Anne
is having with anothei man, amount to an act that, as at least one ciitic has put it, is
"uistant, faint-heaiteu, ueiivative, paiasitical, uepenuent" (Tayloi 117).