Create an interpretation of an author’s writing by closely reading 2-4 of their essays and place your interpretation in a broader context developed from 2-3 scholarly and/or popular essays about the author’s writing and/or about the topic addressed in your essay.
Word Count: minimum 1500 words
my chosen author: Cathy Park Hong
when writing your essay, try to think:
how do you represent your author’s writing
who are the main voices in the conversations
what are their ideas
what her writings are about
why she wrote those essays for
essays by Cathy Park Hong listed below:
Against Witness: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70218/against-witness
Bad English(access through the file given below)
Stand Up(access through the file given below)
*make sure to cite quotes from Cathy Park Hong’s essays listed above as evidence to support your argument. Make sure to include in-text citation and try to prevent fancy wordings in the essay and keep the language simple, and also make sure to write a title that matches with the argument of the essay.
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