The goal of the assignment is to get you comfortable with analyzing scholarly texts, and to help you determine what makes for an effective scholarly article. This could help influence how you research in the future as well as how to make your writing more effective from a rhetorical standpoint. Analysis tools are highly valuable in all kinds of research and writing, and you will use that quite frequently, especially in ENGL 106.
For this assignment, we will focus on:
Composing a strong thesis
What it means to analyze
How to analyze vs. how to summarize
How to find evidence to back up an analysis claim
Scope and Frame:
