DR2014 Midterm review

Technical elements: Play titles Which is correct: 1. "By the Bog of Cats" 2. 'By the Bog of Cats' 3. By the Bog of Cats 4. "By the Bog of Cats" 5. ‘By the bog of cats' 6. By the bog of cats 7. BY THE BOG OF CATS

Italics for titles Use of italics: Macbeth is the protagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.

Passive voice vs. Active Voice PV: Mistakes were made. Rave reviews were given. AV:   Re-write to make these sentence more active: Carr has adapted Euripides's Medea and cultivated the story with Irish mythology creating a unique mythical landscape. The set designer was Monica Frawley who turned Hester's bog into an eerie white scape on stage with an icy blue lighting that added to the plays chilling nature.

Carr has adapted Euripides's Medea and cultivated the story with Irish mythology creating a unique mythical landscape. Euripides’ Medea offered Carr a mythical framework from which she adapted this classical story into a contemporary Irish landscape. [move beyond description- how?] Carr’s adaptation of the classical Greek mythology re-invents Euripides’ tragedy in a contemporary Irish landscape...[to what end?]

The set designer was Monica Frawley who turned Hester's bog into an eerie white scape on stage with an icy blue lighting that added to the plays chilling nature. Set designer Monica Frawley re-imagines Hester’s bog as an eerie white landscape lit in icy blues heightening the haunting tensions and murderous atmosphere which stalk the play’s heroine. Frawley’s set design delivers a chilling atmosphere in icy blue lighting and white out landscape which echoes with the haunting of Hester by the brother she murdered and underscores the lack of comfort or community she finds by the Bog of Cats.

Citation practices Use MLA or Harvard. Look at how to use in text citation and full works cited or bibliography. End of handout lists websites for references. Quotes: embed in text- they don’t talk for you—you talk with them. Always frame and elaborate a quotation. Always fully cite.

Developing Strong Thesis Statements The thesis statement or main claim must be debatable The thesis needs to be narrow The thesis must be specific Can you answer the ‘so what?’ question, that is, why is it significant?

CLAIMS Types of claims Thinking about how you want to approach your topic, in other words what type of claim you want to make, is one way to focus your thesis on one particular aspect of your broader topic. Claims of fact or definition: These claims argue about what the definition of something is or whether something is a settled fact. Claims of cause and effect: These claims argue that one person, thing, or event caused another thing or event to occur. Claims about value: These are claims made of what something is worth, whether we value it or not, how we would rate or categorize something. Claims about solutions or policies: These are claims that argue for or against a certain solution or policy approach to a problem. Which type of claim is right for your argument? Are you making more than one type of claim? Which is the main claim, and are others supporting claims?

RECENT JOURNAL ON COSTUME http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3084/ Are you carefully proof reading your essay? Are you using appropriate sources? Ask for help; offer each other peer reviewing.

EXAMPLE OF REVISION AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Look at examples in revising. Process:– see handout OUTLINE 1 – structure; delimit scope and ideas Draft 1- attempt thesis Draft 2 – be willing to develop, re-write and re-think ideas Final draft- how far can you develop your thinking and claims? How is the argument significant? How do you address the so-what question?