Instruction
Your audience for the paper should be a fellow student in the class, who has a basic grasp of these traditions, and is open minded with regards to your thesis. You are trying to persuade that student regarding the truth of your thesis.
Your intro paragraph should include a brief statement of which traditions and issues that you will deal with, the thesis that you will be defending, and a concise plan of what is to come in your paper. Your thesis must be one of the following formulations: The 2 traditions under scrutiny have mostly similar ideas about the theme at issue; or they have mostly different ideas about the theme at issue. Each issue should be considered in its own paragraph, and you should support your position with references to academically respectable, peer reviewed sources (No Wiki, blogs, newspapers, etc.). Use of quotes should be restricted to no more than 3 quotes, 3 lines each. Make sure that you include a title page, with the option number that you worked with, and the section number or meeting days of your class. The papers that you will be writing will be about 4 full pages in length. They should be typed (double-spaced, in a normal 12 point font), free of grammatical & spelling errors, and demonstrate your ability to analyze & respond to the material. The paper is worth 50 points of your grade, so it is in your best interest to work on these well ahead of the due date, proofread carefully