Write a 750-word (minimum) essay comparing and/or contrasting how women's or men's roles are portrayed in one of the two plays we've read with how women's or men's roles are today. Make sure to cite your sources!

Select the two articles you have read from the following articles, comparing the two women’s or men’s roles

Sentence fragments (Section G5 on pp. 259-265 in A Writer’s Reference).

Run-on sentences (Section G6 on pp. 266-272 in A Writer’s Reference).

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 633

August Wilson’s Fences in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 1029

Appropriate language (Section W4 on pp. 193-201 in A Writer’s Reference).

Problems with pronouns (Section G3 on pp. 238-252 in A Writer’s Reference).

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 194

Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Gospel According to Mark” in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 123

Skim and familiarize yourself with “MLA Papers” in A Writer’s Reference (pp. 437-516).

Italics (Section P10 on pp. 370-372 in A Writer’s Reference).

Capitalization (Section P8 on pp. 362-365 in A Writer’s Reference).

Quotation marks (Section P5 on pp. 343-349 in A Writer’s Reference).

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 85

Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 307

Chapter 30, “Writing a Research Paper” in Backpack Literature (pp. 1143-1167).

Also recommended: Chapter 29, “Writing about Literature.”

“Academic Writing” in A Writer’s Reference (pp. 71-130).

Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 56

Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” in Backpack Literature, starting on p. 321