Write a 900-word(approx.)critical analysis of one of the articles provided. You will need to use1-2credible research sources on the topic of your selected article.
Please follow these steps:
1. Choose one of the articles (see Final Essay Readingsin Learning Materials).Find 1-2online articles on the topic of your reading. For example, if your selected reading is about arming teachers, you should find works by authors (other than your article’s author) that you can quote or paraphrase in your analysis. *See Module 3 for how to quote and paraphrase.
2. In the first paragraph of your essay(140 words approx.), summarize the article. Follow all summary writing rules you learned in this course. See Module 4.
3. In the second paragraph(50 words approx.), state the author’s thesis, and state your purpose, i.e., to analyze how the author supports his or her thesis through one, two, orthree rhetorical appeals. You should name the appeal or appeals.
• If your purpose is to show how the author supports his or her thesis through one appeal, then you will discuss how the author does that by deploying a specific techniquefor that appeal in the next three body paragraphs(each 220 words approx.).For example, if you want to explain how the author supports his or her thesis through logos, then you will analyze one logos strategy in paragraph 3, a different logos strategy in paragraph 4, and yet another, different logos strategy in paragraph 5.
• If your purpose is to show how the author supports his or her thesis through two appeals, you can analyze one appealin one of the body paragraphs, and the other appeal in the other two body paragraphs.
• If your purpose is to show how the author supports his or her thesis through all three appeals, you should analyze one appeal in each body paragraph (for example, ethos in body paragraph1; pathos in body paragraph 2; and logos in body paragraph 3).
-Eachbody paragraph (3-5) must follow the identify- explain-evaluate principle of analysis as you were required to use in the previous critical analyses; each body paragraph must develop the appeal strategy fully, clearly, and coherently with specific examples from the text.
