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f) Describe your writing process. How did you narrow the chosen topic? g) What kind of planning did you do? h) What steps did you go through, what changes did you make along the way, what decisions did you face, and how did you make the decisions? i) How did comments from your peers help you? j) How did any class activities help you? k) Sign the letter. l) For reflection: Does the essay really say what the letter promises? First part of the letter of intentions: Dear Reader,

In our essay we would like to present and analyze the short story “A Jury of her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell, which can be described as an example of early feminist literature, as two female characters are able to solve a mystery of a criminal case, that the male characters are not able to, because of their lack of ability to understand and interpret the women´s behavior. The author originally wrote the story as a one-act play called “Trifles” for the Provincetown Players in 1916. Therefore, we are going to divide our essay into parts with different topics. First of all, we would like to inform our readers about the author and the specific characteristics of a short story. In the second part of our essay we would like to focus on the historical context, the storyline and the way how gender roles are presented, discussing different opinions on this topic and comparing them to the ones existing in our days. Do we still have to deal with this topic today? How do the gender roles now look like? Have we reached equality of men and women yet? All these are questions we are going to analyze and discuss in the course of the main part of our essay. Another important topic of this short story and part of our essay could be the fact, that the two women hide evidences from the investigating officers to save the farmer´s wife, who stands under the cloud that she killed her husband, from punishment. The main and also very paradoxical question in this part would be: Who is really being taken as the victim, the murdered husband or his wife as the murder? In order to find the answers to these questions we are going to use additional literature about the historical background, the gender roles and the already published essays about these mentioned topics. Second part of the letter of intentions: To actually create the essay we have already written, we did some research about the chosen topic, read some texts about it and summarized the bibliography to use their statements as supporting arguments. In addition to that, we comprised the information we had found to create an interesting and compact text. Our time of preparation was organized by using tentative schedules and class commitments throughout the textual production course. We worked out some changes related to the bibliography, the thesis statement and the topic sentences and discussed appropriate changes due to the internet or in class meetings, respecting each other`s opinions before getting to a definite decision. As we have different backgrounds related to our knowledge of English, we tried to help each other by correcting the written texts of our group members. This way of learning helped us a lot to improve our English skills. In our opinion the classes were extremely important to receive some support from our professor and to talk personally, as it was sometimes hard to organize everything online. We also made use of the offered pages, which contained some helpful tips, to become a better writer of English texts. Leonardo Rodrigues Lucas Marra  Yvette Gossel  Giovanni Mazoch