I am required to write an analytic research paper on my preference literary text with the first of the guidelines given by Dr Edwin is to develop a thesis statement. The writing of thesis statements is in actuality nothing new for it has been introduced right from the very first semester through the course Expository Writing. Exploring further, to write an analytic research paper demands varieties of task that I need to follow through such as formulating the thesis, gathering, evaluating and using sources to support the ideas (which I have not given much thought yet), as well as the tedious work of documenting them.
Begin from the beginning, I think I am quite ready to work out with this first assignment, especially getting myself in place in terms of availability of time, between my personal life as a mother of six children and of course a wife and my career (we are currently in the process of packing and unpacking, moving to our new office in Putrajaya).
Well, when I said begin from the beginning; what I really meant is doing first thing first for I am training myself to write this analytic paper in a professional way. What I have to do first is to analyze the assignment to ascertain myself. Dr Edwin has established some guidelines to be followed and that my analysis is restricted to a single focus of an issue in a literary text of my choice. Taking off from this understanding, I will have to prepare a prewriting exercise like brainstorming or clustering.
Then I will proceed on developing a draft of my thesis which of course when formulating my thesis for this literature paper I will have to follow a certain guidelines. One of the writing guides I came across from a website (http://writing.coloctate.edu/) clearly spelled out four cautions when formulating a thesis statement:
· A Thesis Should Not State the Obvious
· Use Literary Terms in Thesis with Care
· A Thesis Should be Balanced
· A Thesis Can Be a Blueprint
At this point of moment, I have decided to give myself a try on an absurd drama, Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. My preference of this “Theatre of the Absurd” mainly because it was the first live performance I seriously went to view with only the synopsis to guide me throughout my first taste of the theatre. Later, I gave a try to get myself a copy of the e-text of the play but only succeeding in getting the first and second act of it. Well, I am not dampened by the lack ness of the whole text of the play, thus began my search of as much information I can get about Rhinoceros and Eugene Ionesco as possible.
I have yet to formulate my thesis though I have managed to gather as much information about Rhinoceros and Eugene Ionesco. The opportunity to view the play last December has triggered an interest in me to explore further the term “Theatre of the Absurd”. The “Theatre of the Absurd” is a term coined by Martin Esslin who wrote two of the most influential books dealing with the post-war theatre, Brecht: A Choice of Evils (1959) and Theatre of the Absurd (1962). In “Introduction to "Absurd Drama"” (Penguin Books, 1965) Esslin probed, “What then is the convention of drama that has now acquired the label of the Theatre of the Absurd?”
Well, I guess I have to go. I have yet to read further the article Absurd Drama by Martin Esslin and what better time to read than now?
Begin from the beginning, I think I am quite ready to work out with this first assignment, especially getting myself in place in terms of availability of time, between my personal life as a mother of six children and of course a wife and my career (we are currently in the process of packing and unpacking, moving to our new office in Putrajaya).
Well, when I said begin from the beginning; what I really meant is doing first thing first for I am training myself to write this analytic paper in a professional way. What I have to do first is to analyze the assignment to ascertain myself. Dr Edwin has established some guidelines to be followed and that my analysis is restricted to a single focus of an issue in a literary text of my choice. Taking off from this understanding, I will have to prepare a prewriting exercise like brainstorming or clustering.
Then I will proceed on developing a draft of my thesis which of course when formulating my thesis for this literature paper I will have to follow a certain guidelines. One of the writing guides I came across from a website (http://writing.coloctate.edu/) clearly spelled out four cautions when formulating a thesis statement:
· A Thesis Should Not State the Obvious
· Use Literary Terms in Thesis with Care
· A Thesis Should be Balanced
· A Thesis Can Be a Blueprint
At this point of moment, I have decided to give myself a try on an absurd drama, Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. My preference of this “Theatre of the Absurd” mainly because it was the first live performance I seriously went to view with only the synopsis to guide me throughout my first taste of the theatre. Later, I gave a try to get myself a copy of the e-text of the play but only succeeding in getting the first and second act of it. Well, I am not dampened by the lack ness of the whole text of the play, thus began my search of as much information I can get about Rhinoceros and Eugene Ionesco as possible.
I have yet to formulate my thesis though I have managed to gather as much information about Rhinoceros and Eugene Ionesco. The opportunity to view the play last December has triggered an interest in me to explore further the term “Theatre of the Absurd”. The “Theatre of the Absurd” is a term coined by Martin Esslin who wrote two of the most influential books dealing with the post-war theatre, Brecht: A Choice of Evils (1959) and Theatre of the Absurd (1962). In “Introduction to "Absurd Drama"” (Penguin Books, 1965) Esslin probed, “What then is the convention of drama that has now acquired the label of the Theatre of the Absurd?”
Well, I guess I have to go. I have yet to read further the article Absurd Drama by Martin Esslin and what better time to read than now?
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