Response Paper #1
Instructions: Your response paper should
have a short introductory paragraph containing your thesis, your main discussion of
the text, and a concluding paragraph. The paper should be 4 pages in length, 12 point
font Times Roman, double-spaced, and typed. You are used to MLA academic citation style. Please submit your paper
(MS Word only).
1) Compare and contrast the stories “Solidifying the Land” (Izanami & Izanagi
creating the Japanese islands) and “The Birth of the Sun Goddess” (Amaterasu)
from the Kojiki (712) (Supplementary Readings 1 & 2). In your discussion you
might want to consider questions such as “What earliest evidence of socio-
political and socio-cultural structures do we see in these stories? How is gender
portrayed similarly or differently in these two stories?”
Citation Style Examples:
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-book
Thesis
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/thesis-state…
http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/develop…
This website also has good tips on grammar, etc.
Discussion
For your main discussion, cite words, lines, or passages from the text and discuss/analyze
them. This what is meant by working with the text.
Conclusion
http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/ending-…
Here is the source that might help you: https://www.patternz.jp/shinto-introduction-way-kami/
No other outside sources except the source website and the PDF reading supplements that I gave.
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