Another example of argumentative writing's outline

Nurrohma Fitriana - Airlangga University 2012

The Outline of Argumentation Writing’s Assignment : 

Thesis sentence : The article is going to reveal the emergence of cultural memory which is depicted by Kwan Li as protagonist in Ami Tan’s novel The Hundret Secret Senses (1994) by using postcolonial literary criticism.

Introduction
- First paragraph : the reason of choosing Ami Tan’s novel and its issue
Thesis statement : Amy Tan's novel is attracted and accomodated the issue of postcolonial instead in which Chinese-American’s diaspora is related to cultural memory.
Supporting details : The novel’s award, Amy Tan’s background

 - Second paragraph : the reason of choosing postcolonial theorist,Hommi K.Bhabha
 Thesis statement : Hommi K.Bhabha (1994) will be the most suitable postcolonial theorist for analyzing the novel by pointing out his cultural memory
 Supporting details : Bhabha’s complete cultural memory aspects such as ‘space’, ‘archaic of memory’ and ‘slippage’

 - Third paragraph : correlation between cultural memory and diaspora
 Thesis statement : Diaspora has been creating memory of diasporic people who have undergone colonialism thus emerge cultural memory
 Supporting details : diaspora is rooted of postcolonial issue

 - Fourth paragraph : the reason of choosing supporting theorist, Stuart Hall
Thesis statement : Stuart Hall (1990) has proposed diaspora and identity thus he describes well toward its postcolonial issue
Supporting details : definition of diaspora, diaspora as transnational‘s strategy

 - Fifth paragraph : the reason of choosing prominent character and its issue.
 Thesis statement : Kwan Li is protagonist in The Hundred Secret Senses due to her prominent character that indicates cultural memory
Supporting details : Kwan Li as diasporic people, Kwan Li’s incarnations, Kwan Li’s cultural identity crisis, Kwan Li ‘slippage’

 - Sixth pharagraph : the reason of using qualitative approach and related studies
 Thesis statement : qualitative approach and related studies which elaborate toward cultural memory or Tan’s works will be used to conduct the analysis
 Supporting details : Begona Gonzalez’ More than Meet the Eye: Magic Realism in Amy Tan’s The Hundret Secret Senses ( 2003) and so on

 Discussion
- First paragraph : Kwan Li’s double temporality
 Thesis statement : The existence of Kwan Li’s previous incarnation’s memory constructs tendency of similar phenomenon within the double-temporality between present life and previous incarnation
Supporting details : incarnation in Chinese mythology

 - Second paragraph : Kwan as diasporic people
Thesis statement : Cultural memory in both lifes is rooted by Kwan’s diasporic society
 Supporting details : Kwan’s diaporic society in both lifes

- Third paragraph : Kwan’s cultural identity crisis
 Thesis statement : Cultural Identity Crisis which happened in previous incarnation is similar to Kwan’s present life
 Supporting details : hybridity, mimicri

- Fourth paragraph : Kwan as colonized people
Thesis statement : Representation Kwan Li as colonized people in her both lifes
Supporting details : Chinese is marginalized by white-American

- Fifth paragraph : Kwan Li’s ‘Slippage’ as cultural memory strategy
 Thesis statement : Kwan Li’s slippage covers remembrance as-mocking, remembrance as-retrieval, and her domination toward white-American
 Supporting details : Kwan’s counteracts the tendency to despair by doing remembrance as-mocking toward white-American, Kwan’s counteracts the tendency to despair by doing remembrance as-retrieval toward white-American, Kwan’s domination over Western by saving Olivia Bishop Conclusion : Kwan Li in Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses supports Bhabha’s cultural memory of diasporic people