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For the final exam in this class, you will write an extended mini-paper just as you have been doing throughout the entire course. I find this is better for students because it allows you to showcase the skills you have honed over the course of the last three months, and it’s not timed, which is a plus. To this end, the final paper will be what is called a comparative analysis — comparing and\/or contrasting two works that we have read in this course. With this type of essay, you are able to utilize both textual and contextual analysis. <\/p>\n

Below, I have included commentary about comparative analysis essays from Goscik and Hutchison in Writing about American Literature<\/em>. Take their advice:<\/p>\n

“A comparative study requires that you look at specific elements in each text and compare or contrast their qualities. Two strategies tend to lead to success with this type of assignment. First, you might take two texts assumed to be very similar but then show important differences between the two.<\/strong> For example, Joel Chandler Harris’s “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” and Charles W. Chestnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine” are both dialect stories from the 1880s. Yet there are crucial differences in tone and characterization between the two stories. Second, you might take two texts assumed to be very dissimilar but then show important similarities between them<\/strong>. For example, you might take an influential religious text like Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and show its similarities to Ginsberg’s “Howl” — a poem often described in profane rather than sacred terms.”<\/p>\n

“Whatever strategy you choose, remember: for a compare\/contrast essay to be effective, the writer must be sure to limit the comparison to the most salient points. A paper that articulates carefully a few important similarities or differences and then analyzes their significance will fare much better than a paper that simply presents a laundry list of similarities and differences with no analysis of commentary” (23-4).<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The instructions for this paper are the following:<\/p>\n