Read: Barbie-Q by Sandra Cisneros’s By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria: Competency 1:

Read: Barbie-Q by Sandra Cisneros’s

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

Competency 1: Apply the conventions of literary analysis.
Apply the conventions of literary analysis to a literary work.
Competency 2: Apply literary critical analysis skills.
Examine depictions of the relationship between the individual and society in a literary work.
Competency 3: Use basic literary terms.
Use basic literary terms to construct an effective thesis statements.
Competency 4: Examine depictions of the relationship between the individual and society.
Apply literary critical analysis skills to provide a balanced analysis of a literary work.
Competency 5: Construct scholarly literary analysis.
Apply library research in the construction of a scholarly literary analysis.
Competency 6: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Develop your ideas from the Unit 4 discussion into a full, well-organized, and well-supported essay of 1000–1200 words in proper APA format, with a title page, headers, and correct in-text citation and end references page. Any effective scholarly research essay of this length will include:

An introductory paragraph in which you engage the reader’s attention, offer some brief background information, and clearly assert your thesis statement
Three to five body paragraphs in which you develop that thesis statement by offering direct, quoted evidence from the story and from your researched sources, and by building your own unique perspective on how this specific evidence proves your thesis. In your essay, you must clearly utilize and document, in-text and in your end references page, at least two scholarly sources retrieved from the Capella University Library.
A concluding paragraph, in which you reiterate your thesis concept and leave the reader thinking about your ideas.