Critical Response Write your critical response to ONE of the short stories below

Critical
Response
Write your critical
response to ONE of the short stories below:
·
F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited”
·
Alice Walker’s
“Everyday Use”
·
Kate Chopin’s
“The Story of an Hour”
Your paper
should be no more than one-two pages in length, double-spaced, has the title
page and the reference page (APA format).
Detailed
Instructions
An effective
critical response summarizes the text to help readers understand what it’s
about and analyzes how and why the text has a particular effect.
Just telling
your reader what you feel about the story is NOT a good reader response. In
addition to what you feel or think, you need to point to the specific causes of
your response. Ask yourself: “What is the text doing to have a particular
effect on me?” To answer this question, you need to examine literary elements
in the text to see how they function. Consider literary elements that you study
in Week 1 such as character, figure of speech, imagery, and/or theme.
Follow the
steps below to write your critical response:
A. READ
CRITICALLY
1.
Preview, highlight, annotate and list three things you noticed right away about
the text (ex., title, division of parts, heading). What do these features tell you
about the kind of text you are reading, and about what it is doing?
2. List the
two literary elements that are the most noticeable.
3. How are
the elements connected? Does a particular feature emphasize a certain
literary element? For example, how do the text’s headings relate to its themes?
B. PLAN AND
PREWRITE
1. While
reading and analyzing the text, think about what matters to you about this
text. Convert your strong reaction to the text into a topic for your critical
response. Ask several questions about this topic such as “Does my topic deal
with particular literary elements, such as characters, themes, imagery,
language?”
2. After asking and answering three
questions about a topic, rewrite the topic to narrow its focus on the details
that interest you. Then, ask three more questions about your narrowed topic. Which of these three questions could you answer in a
critical response? Identify one of the three questions that is the most
important to you.
3. Choose one strategy for generating ideas and write down several ideas
for your essay, for example, brainstorming, freewriting, listing, asking
questions. Identify some ideas that you most excited to write about.
4. Think
about the idea you might write about in your response. What questions do you
have about that idea? Consider the text itself to answer your questions. Also,
you can consult secondary sources (such as articles in the college online
databases) to see what other writers are saying about your idea.
5. Sort through your ideas to find a meaningful connection or
patterns using mapping, sketching, or outlining. Outline your critical response, showing the
relationships among your ideas. Cross out ideas
that are no longer applicable and fill in new ideas to build more and better
connections.
6. Draft a thesis statement for your critical response. Ask
yourself: “Can I back it up with evidence from the text?” Revise your thesis
and think about why your reader should care about your main point.
IMPORTANT: Besides your idea or
response, your thesis should include the title of the text, the author, and the
literary element(s) that you will be analyzing to support your response.
C.
DRAFT AND REVISE
1.
Think about the overall structure of your response
(introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion). Do all the paragraphs in your
essay plan support the thesis, or the essay’s main idea? Delete any sentences
or paragraphs that don’t relate directly to your thesis.
2. With your essay plan in
place, look for any gaps within or between paragraphs that might prevent
readers from moving smoothly from point to point. Flesh out existing paragraphs
and add new paragraphs to give more context and support for your points. Think
about the information your readers need to
understand (and care about) your response.
3. To make your response critical, you need textual evidence
to support your interpretation. Consider thesis statement and the main
supporting points of your response. Return to the literary text to select one
piece of textual evidence (such as examples, quotations, and paraphrases) to
back up each of your supporting points.
4. For each
piece of textual evidence you selected, write two sentences: one that
introduces the evidence (with a signal phrase such as “The author uses”), and
one that explains the significance of the evidence in your own words.
Then, look at the sentences you wrote and determine if any of the evidence you
selected provides inadequate support for your response. If so, gather better
evidence to back up your thesis and main supporting points.
D. EDIT AND
PROOFREAD
1. Revise
for “surface errors”—mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence
sense, and word choice.
2. Proofread
to search out and destroy errors and typos that distort meaning or distract the
reader. Running your paper through the app Grammarly will help you catch them.
3. Submit
the final paper in CANVAS.

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Response
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