Essay # 2: Analyzing An Article through a Lens
Rough Draft Due Date: March 26th, 2023 by 11:59PM
Final Draft Due Date: April 7th, 2023 by 11:59PM
Length: 4-6 FULL pages (not including Works Cited Page)
For your second major essay, you will analyze your main article’s argument, claims, and evidence. Assess whether you found the author effective or ineffective. What type of evidence do they use to support their argument? Do they use credible sources? You will then need to use your secondary source to assess whether your main article was effective or ineffective. Point out quotes and key points that help further your argument.
You will need to provide sufficient evidence to help support your argument. Does your secondary and third article have key points or evidence that helps support whether your main article is effective or ineffective? The essay will need to be written as if your reader doesn’t know much about either article, their argument and evidence. Starting with an opening sentence that will lead us directly into your argument and introduction of both articles. Don’t spend too much time on one piece of evidence. I want you to provide enough evidence that helps me know that you did the readings, can analyze both articles and effectively assessed both readings in its entirety.
Specifically, your paper should do the following:
Identify and explain your main article’s argument
Assess whether your main article author is effective or ineffective
Analyze their credibility in comparison to your second and third article.
Assess the secondary article’s evidence that helps prove whether your main article is effective or ineffective.
Begin your essay with a hook and or introductory sentence or paragraph.
Requirements:
This paper requires the following:
A correctly formatted Works Cited page.
Specific quotes and lines of evidence from the text.
A traditional academic structure.
12pt font, 1inch margins, and MLA formatting (see Purdue OWL if you need assistance)
Student Learning Outcome:
Identify an author’s argument, assess whether they’re effective or ineffective based on the evidence that is provided in their article. Analyze and evaluate the extent to which evidence and reasoning support the argument. Using an outside article as a lens to assess the main article author’s ethos and evidence.
A Helpful Outline and Questions
1. Introduction (1 to 2 paragraphs)
You can use a whole paragraph to start off your essay connecting your life or an event that is relevant to your main article OR you can provide a hook or introductory sentence then jump right into your essay.
Introduce and contextualize both the main article and the supporting article
The main article should be the most talked about reading in the introduction.
Mention the main article author’s argument. Make this clear and precise. Avoid generalizations or being vague.
Who is the audience? Tone?
This is important, especially for this paper, do you find your main article effective or ineffective? No matter which one you choose, you will then need to CLEARLY state how you feel but this needs to be supported by your supporting article. If your supporting article goes against the main article authors’ idea then you need to clearly state that.
Does the authors’ evidence make them credible or not? Do they have effective or ineffective ethos?
End with metadiscourse
2. Construct an account of you main article argument (5-6 Body Paragraphs)
What is the author’s main argument?
Provide evidence to help support his/her argument whether you find it effective or ineffective (this is going to set up your essay because in this paragraph you will “draw” the line between his article and whether you find him/her effective or ineffective)
Does your supporting article have evidence or information that helps us better understand if your main article is effective or ineffective?
Does the author of your main article have effective ethos? Does he/she provide evidence that helps make them credible?
Being credible and ineffective or effective are two different things. When examining an author’s ethos, you’re looking at whether the sources they provide help them make them credible. When it comes to ineffective or effective, you’re examining if their argument has enough evidence that supports what they’re trying to argue.Essay # 2: Analyzing An Article through a Lens
Rough Draft Due Date: March 26th, 2023 by 11:59PM
Final Draft Due Date: April 7th, 2023 by 11:59PM
Length: 4-6 FULL pages (not including Works Cited Page)
For your second major essay, you will analyze your main article’s argument, claims, and evidence. Assess whether you found the author effective or ineffective. What type of evidence do they use to support their argument? Do they use credible sources? You will then need to use your secondary source to assess whether your main article was effective or ineffective. Point out quotes and key points that help further your argument.
You will need to provide sufficient evidence to help support your argument. Does your secondary and third article have key points or evidence that helps support whether your main article is effective or ineffective? The essay will need to be written as if your reader doesn’t know much about either article, their argument and evidence. Starting with an opening sentence that will lead us directly into your argument and introduction of both articles. Don’t spend too much time on one piece of evidence. I want you to provide enough evidence that helps me know that you did the readings, can analyze both articles and effectively assessed both readings in its entirety.
Specifically, your paper should do the following:
Identify and explain your main article’s argument
Assess whether your main article author is effective or ineffective
Analyze their credibility in comparison to your second and third article.
Assess the secondary article’s evidence that helps prove whether your main article is effective or ineffective.
Begin your essay with a hook and or introductory sentence or paragraph.
Requirements:
This paper requires the following:
A correctly formatted Works Cited page.
Specific quotes and lines of evidence from the text.
A traditional academic structure.
12pt font, 1inch margins, and MLA formatting (see Purdue OWL if you need assistance)
Student Learning Outcome:
Identify an author’s argument, assess whether they’re effective or ineffective based on the evidence that is provided in their article. Analyze and evaluate the extent to which evidence and reasoning support the argument. Using an outside article as a lens to assess the main article author’s ethos and evidence.
A Helpful Outline and Questions
1. Introduction (1 to 2 paragraphs)
You can use a whole paragraph to start off your essay connecting your life or an event that is relevant to your main article OR you can provide a hook or introductory sentence then jump right into your essay.
Introduce and contextualize both the main article and the supporting article
The main article should be the most talked about reading in the introduction.
Mention the main article author’s argument. Make this clear and precise. Avoid generalizations or being vague.
Who is the audience? Tone?
This is important, especially for this paper, do you find your main article effective or ineffective? No matter which one you choose, you will then need to CLEARLY state how you feel but this needs to be supported by your supporting article. If your supporting article goes against the main article authors’ idea then you need to clearly state that.
Does the authors’ evidence make them credible or not? Do they have effective or ineffective ethos?
End with metadiscourse
2. Construct an account of you main article argument (5-6 Body Paragraphs)
What is the author’s main argument?
Provide evidence to help support his/her argument whether you find it effective or ineffective (this is going to set up your essay because in this paragraph you will “draw” the line between his article and whether you find him/her effective or ineffective)
Does your supporting article have evidence or information that helps us better understand if your main article is effective or ineffective?
Does the author of your main article have effective ethos? Does he/she provide evidence that helps make them credible?
Being credible and ineffective or effective are two different things. When examining an author’s ethos, you’re looking at whether the sources they provide help them make them credible. When it comes to ineffective or effective, you’re examining if their argument has enough evidence that supports what they’re trying to argue.
-I am giving you an example of an RWS essay and an outline of what it should be like. MAKE SURE THIS IS UNDERSTOOD THANK YOU
– please write this essay in RWS format style, if you don’t know watch a video. Cite all sources right after you use information on the essay. Use quotes.