During the process of proposing a thesis, you will form a thesis about how literary or other artistic creations and governmental
or other social bodies affect one another. You will bring your thesis, along with support, to your peer discussion. You might present a thesis about good or bad ways in which these two entities interact or about how you think they should interact. Use these ideas to help you formulate your thesis.
Your thesis can focus on one or several genres. (Note, for example, that drama is much more public than other forms of literature, so you might want to handle it differently.)
You can draw from the literary historical examples you've encountered in this course or elsewhere, as well as from any personal experience in which you have seen laws or market forces limit the publication of texts or the presentation of live performances.
You might also incorporate current issues around public displays of visual art or the advantages and disadvantages of government-supported art.
You could choose to explore to what extent, if any, cultural history changes the shape of literature or other forms of artistic expression, or discuss the role that literature and art in general play in people's lives.
For the discussion process, you’ll need to work as part of a pair who can meet for a face-to-face discussion. Your teacher will identify a process for this task that fits your learning situation. For instance, if you’re working primarily on your own in this course with no on-site classmates (self-paced course), the process will be a little different than if you are learning with one or more other students in the same building and on the same schedule (group-paced course). Discussions in those two cases are outlined here.
Record the names of the discussion participants. If you organized the discussion, record how you know the other person and summarize how you chose and invited him or her and how you organized the time and place for the discussion.
Part of the success of the debate is due to the attitude of the participants and how they develop throughout the process. Here the most important recommendations:
1.- Clarity: Avoid the use of terms that may be misinterpreted by any of the participants.
2.- Evidence: It is better not to express the arguments with phrases such as: "According to ...", "The text says .." It is advisable to support ideas with real events.
3.- Emotivity: Limit the use of expressions that provoke angry responses in the other participants, which try to devalue them by their political position.
4.- Causality: It is better not to give conclusions that lead to fallacies
5.- Credibility in the information: Cite sources that support the credibility of the above
6.- Credibility in the information: Cite sources that support the credibility of the above
"I showed you yesterday" is an independent clause because it can be a standalone sentence and expresses a complete thought compared to a dependent clause which cannot stand by itself and only supports a sentence.<span />
