Caryl Churchill and Women Playwrights
Choose ONE of the following topics and respond with a FULL, non-Wikipedia cited paragraph.
1) You MUST include your citation (like a URL) to your source; and 2) ALSO a piece of DIRECT QUOTE to report research, with introductory/transitional phrasing in your own language.
When you take even 3-4 words directly from a research source, you MUST place those between quotation marks. For instance, you might write something like: According to History.com, Henry VIII’s first wife Catherine of Aragon was “demoted for bearing no son.” Do you see how words you took directly from another source are placed within quotation marks? You MUST to do this, or you risk a plagiarism charge. Since you are being asked to conduct research, it’s perfectly fine that you are reading other sources, but you need to get in the habit of reporting and crediting your sources correctly.
Please note: Any time you use another source, you must use quotation marks around words taken from them and credit your source each and every time you use their ideas or words. Do NOT borrow a large chunk from someone else and then just drop a citation at the end of your post. That will not receive any credit.
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Prompts:
1) Caryl Churchill
Who IS Caryl Churchill, and what is she famous for? (She’s a pretty big deal, and even NEIU has staged or will stage her works…) Identify ONE play other than Top Girls, and give us some information about this work. What are some of her major themes, her key preoccupations in some of her plays?
2) Women Playwrights
Go through our textbook and choose a work written by a female playwright OTHER THAN Susan Glaspell or Caryl Churchill. Read the introduction—no, you don’t have to read the play itself—and tell us something about the playwright and her work. This exercise is designed to have you work on paraphrasing and quoting (and learning to differentiate between the two) with sources that we ALL have access to.