Please revise and rewrite the essay to meet the requirement of the essay.
Introduction
Are you following HAT MAT?
Hook:
Is it logical and engaging? Have you transitioned from the hook with a statement about how it leads you to discuss the text?
Background:
Mention the author and the full title of the text. Put the title of the article in quotation marks. The title of the anthology is italicized.
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
The Best American Essays of the Century
Thesis:
Always the last sentence of the introduction. Use only one sentence. I can be a compound sentence.
Body Paragraphs:
Each body paragraph needs specific evidence from the text that you can cite.
Paraphrase (use a signal phrase and a citation)
Summary (use a signal phrase and a citation)
Quote (use a signal phrase and a citation)
You need to analyze the evidence.
What does it show your reader?
How does it relate to your thesis statement?
What are you using the evidence to prove?
Use a phrase to jumpstart your analysis: It is clear that, One can see, A reader will deduce, A careful interpretation reveals
Conclusion:
Essay 2
In our second essay, we will read and analyze an essay written in the memoir genre. Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” and Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” are two coming-of-age essays that describe how the writers’ voices were silenced by forces outside of themselves.
Prompt:
Through the process of struggling with forces that bring various types of silence into the writers’ lives, the writers each learn an important lesson about voice and marginalization. Write an essay in which you analyze how the writers use their voices to combat marginalization.
The style of argument in this assignment is an argument of cause and effect. While on some levels readers may easily agree about details in an essay, there is room to interpret the details differently. The cause-and-effect essay argues for a particular type of interpretation of select details. The argument must be sound and text based. Careful and thoughtful reading are paramount to the success of this mode of writing.