COMM 100B Semiotic Analysis of “The Woman in the Window” Essay Prompt For your first assignment for COMM 100B, you will write a short essay in which you t
COMM 100B Semiotic Analysis of “The Woman in the Window” Essay Prompt
For your first assignment for COMM 100B, you will write a short essay in which you take a semiotic approach to “The Woman in the Window,” a short story by Ramona Lowe, originally published in 1940. [A PDF of the story can be found in the “Supplemental Readings” folder on our course’s TritonED site.] The objective of this assignment is for you to choose, and apply, knowledge drawn from our course so far to show how semiosis (meaning-making) takes place in Lowe’s short story.
Your goal is not to say what you think Lowe’s story means in the usual sense of reading a work of fiction. Whether you think the story is good or bad, whether or you liked it or not, or how you felt during or after reading it, are irrelevant to this assignment. Rather, your goal is look at Lowe’s story as a container of multiple signs that produce meaning within the story.
To do this, your job is to identify one or more signs and show how meaning is produced within a system (or systems) of signification. You can choose any sign(s) that you want, but your reader should clearly know what you have chosen, its significance, and how you are using it in your semiotic analysis. Your essay should include a clear thesis (a claim about what sign(s) you are using and what you intend to argue with it), plenty of clear evidence (concrete examples drawn directly from Lowe’s story and from Chandler’s text to support your claim), and a clear conclusion. Both Lowe and Chandler must be cited in your essay to show your engagement with ideas from the course.
Essay Requirements
All essays must be approximately 750 words (exclusive of endnotes), typed, double spaced, using no larger than 12-point font and normal margins. Your essay must be carefully written, edited, and proofread for egregious spelling and grammatical errors. COMM 100B: Communication, Culture, and Representation
Winter 2019
First Essay Assignment
Must be submitted to TurnItIn.com on or before Thursday, January 31 at 12:00pm
Essay Prompt
For your first assignment for COMM 100B, you will write a short essay in which you take
a semiotic approach to “The Woman in the Window,” a short story by Ramona Lowe,
originally published in 1940. [A PDF of the story can be found in the “Supplemental
Readings” folder on our course’s TritonED site.] The objective of this assignment is for
you to choose, and apply, knowledge drawn from our course so far to show how
semiosis (meaning-making) takes place in Lowe’s short story.
Your goal is not to say what you think Lowe’s story means in the usual sense of reading
a work of fiction. Whether you think the story is good or bad, whether or you liked it or
not, or how you felt during or after reading it, are irrelevant to this assignment. Rather,
your goal is look at Lowe’s story as a container of multiple signs that produce meaning
within the story.
To do this, your job is to identify one or more signs and show how meaning is produced
within a system (or systems) of signification. You can choose any sign(s) that you want,
but your reader should clearly know what you have chosen, its significance, and how
you are using it in your semiotic analysis.
Your essay should include a clear thesis (a claim about what sign(s) you are using and
what you intend to argue with it), plenty of clear evidence (concrete examples drawn
directly from Lowe’s story and from Chandler’s text to support your claim), and a clear
conclusion. Both Lowe and Chandler must be cited in your essay to show your
engagement with ideas from the course.
Essay Requirements
All essays must be approximately 750 words (exclusive of endnotes), typed, doublespaced, using no larger than 12-point font and normal margins. Your essay must be
carefully written, edited, and proofread for egregious spelling and grammatical errors.
All essays must be submitted to TurnItIn.com no later than Thursday, January 31 by
12:00pm. Grading will be based on clarity of thought and expression, demonstration of
learning drawn from our course, and overall persuasiveness of writing and critical
thinking. Be sure to make correct use of quotations and endnotes/footnotes as
appropriate. This assignment is worth 15 percent of your course grade.
NOTE: Plagiarism in any form is intolerable will result in serious sanctions by me, by the
department, and by the university. If you are uncertain as to what constitutes plagiarism,
please contact me to discuss.
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