In a reflective paper, we look at the piece of work,  and instead of just reading the text we compare it to other works and sources that help in discovering the theme and deeper meaning of the text, and for understanding the time. What does the text(s) say about the time, about its need now, and in the future? It is the next step - going further. Now we can read and respond to the text and by looking outside of ourselves for even more knowledge we deepen our own and ascertain how we might need and use this in the future. 

Please write a reflective essay on the following: 

 Select, from the list you studied, three works (plays, poems or prose) that depict women who are verbally powerful (for instance, as writers, speech-makers, persuaders, cursers, gossipers). Describe with precision the nature of their verbal rhetorical power and then explain how each of these works relies, presumably in quite different ways, on the figure of the verbally powerful woman.

This is a question that focuses on interpretation. For example, how does each author use the verbally powerful woman to (and these are just "for instances" and not meant to be prescriptive or to set limitations)—establish their work's tragic or comic paradigms; examine the distinction between and overlapping of public and private spheres; sort through acceptable and/or effective versions of rhetoric, style, or authorship?

• FORMAT Details

•  Length: 5 1/2 pages min, <-- Not including WC page. Please have the correct margins, and heading….SHOW ME your MLA! (blank spaces and headings do not count, nor does the Works Cited page).  Ten percentage points will be deducted from the final grade for each missing page of writing.  A Works Cited page should be included with the essay itself and should begin at the top of a new page.  However, the Works Cited does not count as one of the pages of writing.  Your essay should have first, a heading, then an interesting and explanatory title, then five-to-seven full pages of writing, and then a Works Cited page. 
•   The Works Cited Page it must be in the correct MLA style.  
•   3 sources from the readings additional external sources are okay, but the main three texts MUST be used with textual support. The actual readings you have read in this course must be used for this paper; in order to argue for the author's rhetorical power, the text must be used as evidence to back  your claim.         
•  Three literary sources from this semester must be used in this essay. One can't complete this paper without the primary sources for which their whole paper is based. 

                        If you choose to include secondary sources to SUPPLEMENT your points, the only acceptable sources for this essay are:                      

                     --a text (or texts) chosen from the semester’s assigned British Literature readings <--Required for this assignment. 

                     --supplemental sections of the Norton textbook or the Norton Section introductions. 

                     - credible website (such as the Norton’s introductions) NO LitCharts, SparkNotes, CliffNotes are NOT acceptable website sources. 

                      Please note, one can't use material from LitCharts, SparkNotes or CliffNotes (or anything similar) not cite it, and use it in the paper anyway. That  will  be                                      an automatic failure as that is plagiarism. 

                     --peer-reviewed, scholarly articles or peer-reviewed scholarly

                      --book chapters

   *   Students are required to quote from each primary source in the body of the essay.  It is not acceptable to include a text on your works cited page if you do not quote from that source during the course of your essay.  This includes both primary and secondary sources.  it stands to reason, that one would need to include quotes or paraphrases from the primary sources. There needs to be enough of the primary source to prove the rhetorical power of the text. 

•   MLA Documentation: It needs to be Correct or your essay grade will be lowered by a full letter grade (for example, an A- will become a B-) Students are required to include a properly formatted Works Cited page that adheres to all rules of the MLA format. (Reminder: A properly formatted Works Cited page uses a hanging indent, which means that only the first line of each entry foes to the left margin; all other lines are indented.)
•  Writing Style: Do not write in report-style, but use the intelligent, thoughtful, and reflective style you have been cultivating. This paper is not a summary of the works, or finding a source online and summarizing it.  This paper requires you to have critically read the selections in order for you to form a reflective argument supporting the claim of their rhetorical power. 
• MUST have in-text citations and they must match up with works cited or automatic F.  (One can't evaluate writing, if one doesn't know whose ideas and writing is being presented.)
• Any use of Chat GPT will result in failure for this assignment.   This paper MUST be your original work and part or use of other people/organizations work without properly giving credit will result in failure.
• Grammar, Syntax, and Mechanics:  This is a formal academic assignment.  As such, all elements of grammar, syntax, word choices, and mechanics should adhere to formal academic standards and Standard American English.