09 Nov Argument Essay
Required Reading for this essay:
- Alan Moore, Watchmen
- Andrew Hoberek, “Introduction: Is It Literature?” Download Andrew Hoberek, “Introduction: Is It Literature?”
- Graham J. Murphy, On a More Meaningful Scale. Download Graham J. Murphy, On a More Meaningful Scale.
- David Barnes, Time in the Gutter: Temporal Structures in Watchmen
Choose one of the secondary readings from this Unit. What is the critic arguing? How does this argument inform your understanding of Watchmen?
Your thesis will need to do a few things here:
- establish what the critic is saying
- establish how this informs or changes your reading of the graphic novel
This means that your essay itself will have Confirmatio sections that provide support through examples:
- The critics notes _______.
- Audiences can see this in _________.
- This broadens (or narrows!) our understanding in this way __________.
