500 750 Words Womens Lit Dystopian Point Of View
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
- Competency 2: Explain the influence of the history of women.
- Analyze how women writers’ experiences are empowered by predecessors and contemporaries.
- Competency 3: Analyze women’s changing roles in society and culture.
- Analyze the dystopian perspective in literature.
- Identify the woman’s voice in literature.
- Competency 4: Apply the construct and roles of gender to the study of women’s literature.
- Analyze the development of gender norms, identities, and roles.
- Competency 5: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
- Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
In this unit, you were introduced to the concept of the dystopian point of view. For this assignment, you are required to complete the following:
- Explain the concept of the dystopian point of view and its influence on literature.
- Analyze how and why much of women’s literature reflects a dystopian view.
- Explain whether you see this form of literature as typical in any marginalized group. Would you expect the same type of literature to be written by other groups that find themselves devalued?
A note about resources: Scholarly resources on this topic are available through the Capella Library, but you may also search other libraries. If you use any Internet resources, be sure they are from credible sources. Consider the literature you have read in this unit as you prepare your paper. You are encouraged to also consider the suggested readings for this unit to gain better insight into these topics. You may include course materials as supplemental resources, but you are required to conduct your own research and include at least three resources not provided in the course. In addition, you will find paper-writing advice on pages 1–14 of your 50 Essays text.
Submission Requirements
- Resources: Use references from at least three scholarly resources to support your paper. Do not use any of the required or suggested readings presented in the course to fulfill the minimum of three required resources.
- Formatting: Follow current APA formatting guidelines for your paper.
- Length of paper: 2–3 pages (500–750 words).
- Turnitin: You are encouraged to submit your assignment as a draft to Turnitin. Be sure to make any necessary revisions, and then submit to your instructor for grading.
Refer to the Women’s Literature and the Dystopian Point of View Scoring Guide to ensure you have met the criteria for this assignment. Submit your paper in the assignment area.
CRITERIA | NON-PERFORMANCE | BASIC | PROFICIENT | DISTINGUISHED |
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Analyze the dystopian perspective in literature. 15% |
Does not analyze the dystopian perspective in literature. | Identifies, but does not analyze the dystopian perspective in literature. | Analyzes the dystopian perspective in literature. | Analyzes the dystopian perspective in literature, provides examples from women’s literature, and identifies how that perspective has changed over time. |
Identify the woman’s voice in literature. 15% |
Does not identify the woman’s voice. | Lists, but does not identify the woman’s voice in literature. | Identifies the woman’s voice in literature. | Analyzes how the woman’s voice in literature differs from that of men and provides support from scholarly sources. |
Analyze the development of gender norms, identities, and roles. 25% |
Does not identify the development of gender norms, identities, or roles. | Identifies, but does not analyze the development of gender norms, identities, and roles. | Analyzes the development of gender norms, identities, and roles. | Analyzes in great detail the development of gender norms, identities, and roles. |
Analyze how women writers’ experiences are empowered by predecessors and contemporaries. 25% |
Does not identify how women writers’ experiences are empowered by predecessors or contemporaries. | Identifies, but does not analyze how women writers’ experiences are empowered by predecessors or contemporaries. | Analyzes how women writers’ experiences are empowered by predecessors and contemporaries. | Analyzes how women writers’ experiences are empowered by predecessors and contemporaries, and proposes criteria for identifying causal links. |
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics. 20% |
Does not write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics. | Writes to support an idea, but may be unclear, incomplete, or inaccurate. Format is inconsistent and contains major errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics. | Writes coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics. | Writes coherently, using evidence to support a central idea in a consistently appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics. |