Murder She Rewrote: Redefining the Female Presence in Crime Fiction

Authors

Claire E. Snider, University of DaytonFollow

Course

ENG198

Semester

Fall

Instructor's Name

Lindsey Light

Year

2020

Writing Process

Brainstorming was first and foremost. Several ideas and possibilities for my final research paper came to me over a course of about a month before I finally settled on my topic. The next step was a brief outline that helped me visualize the setup for my final product. Formulating a list of unusual and powerful vocabulary was something that I sought out to do for this paper, so I ended up including a list at the end of my outline. My next step was to develop a research proposal, and this ended up being a condensed version of what ended up to be my paper. The next step, and what I saw as the most important step, was gathering scholarly articles as research sources. This took several days, and as I found articles, I took annotations and highlighted valuable quotes. Simultaneously, I drafted an annotated bibliography, something that I found extremely useful when constructing my final paper. After writing several drafts, I used peer edits and family recommendations to make revisions.

Recommended Citation

Snider, Claire E. (2021) "Murder She Rewrote: Redefining the Female Presence in Crime Fiction," Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/lxl/vol7/iss1/9