Analytical writing, as we will discuss in class, is probably the most common type of writing you will encounter in the academic setting. No matter the subject type (history, literature, art, science, or whatever), analytical writing is primarily the same from discipline to discipline. We work with a text, develop a thesis, and then carefully and meticulously select material from that text to support our claims. You have been reading Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. At this point in our term, you are nearly finished with your reading, and yet you have alsobeen writing about a key theme from Skloot’s text. You have treated it argumentatively, personally, and through the eyes of others.Now, what does Skloot and the Lacks family have to say about it?For this essay, trace the use of that subject throughout Lacks’s biography. How does it manifest itself in her experience and in Skloot’s writing? Is Skloot’s treatment of the topic positive, negative?
