Examples of Blog Posts and Critical Analysis Paper

Everyone does one Blog Post Connecting reading to Contemporary Culture and material. The expectations are as follows:

Writing: Blog Post connecting materials from class to readings and class discussion (20% of Grade). Sign up by the end of the second class on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

Create a Blog Post connecting ideas or passages to other cultural materials, events, and issues today. Posts receive full credit if they accomplish the following:
  1. An original title that reflects a central point or hook in your post (10 points)
  2. A form of media with a caption (image, embedded youtube) OR text from a related source with a brief summary description of the source and citation and/or link (5 points)
  3. Minimum of 250 (50 points)
  4. Passage (a sentence up to a block quote. A block quote is 4+ lines) from one of the readings with a citation (20 points)
  5. A “Category” or tag that reads “Blog Post on “[Author’s name].” Please include this last element because it ensures your site posts are organized and searchable on our class site because peers must read and comment. (10 points)
  6. After you post the Blog to the Cuny Commons site, go to Blackboard and copy the URL for your post, paste it into the text box for the Assignment as listed  in Blackboard, and submit to receive full credit (5 points)
If you need to learn more about how to create a blog post, we will review the first and second days of class, and here is a link to a tutorial:
Guides and Tutorials | Black Women Writers Summer 2023: Flight and Friendship
Please submit to Blackboard by copying and pasting a  hyperlink to your post on Cuny Commons in a word document and uploading.

EXAMPLES

Below are examples of Blog posts connecting the novel No-No Boy by John Okada to the culture and material they are familiar with. For reference, No-No Boy focuses on a young Japanese American man’s return to his home in California after being put in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp and then prison for refusing to forsake all allegiance to Japan and Japanese culture and accept the American draft.

Example 1:

Accepting Your Reality is Painful in John Okada’s No – No Boy

Example Two

Relating to an Asian American novel as an Asian American

 

In this course, you also have critical analysis papers. Below is an example for your reference. This essay focuses on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and Black masculinity.

Click here for Student Example Essay.