Suzan Harjo’s “Last Rites for Indian Dead”
heres the link that the evaluation must be over:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-16-me-21-story.html
Basic Requirements
1 1/2-2 pages, not including works cited page
MLA format
Only 1 Cited Source (The essay you are summarizing)
Important Milestones:
Rough Draft
Final Draft
Instructions:
Select one of the three essays you read and complete the following assignment
Thoroughly READ the article MORE THAN ONCE before completing your evaluation.
Based on your answers to the evaluation questions you previously answered, as well as any other relevant reasons, write your source evaluation in two paragraphs justifying your use of this source in your own paper on this topic. Type your paragraphs as instructed. In your paragraph, include the following information:
First, your first paragraph should be a 10-15 sentence summary of the article using Must use a minimum of 2-4 direct quotes. This should get you to the bottom of the first page.
Be sure to include the author’s name, title of the article and the author’s main point in the first sentence. For the rest of your summary spend your sentences covering the main points and sub points the author made in their article. Be sure to include parenthetical citations after the direct quotes, and any paraphrased information.
In the second paragraph Explain where you might use this in a paper you might write on the same topic (ex: history/background, pro perspective, con perspective, etc.).
In the first half of the paragraph explain all the things that are good about the paper, your initial reaction to it. i.e. it is well written, the tone the author uses is convincing, the facts and stats the author uses are convincing on the surface etc.
In the second half of the paragraph explain why this source would or would not qualify as an academic source (see notes below), and if you could use it in your own paper, why or why not.
*Notes:
Any source older than 10 years cannot be used for anything more than history. However, if they used sources in their paper, it is quite possible you can research those sources, and find the same information published in a more recent place, thus making the info contained in the essay usable as a jump off point for you to find a site where you can cite it from
If you cannot verify the facts from the essay through your own outside research, then remember you cannot consider the essay an acceptable academic source, which you could use.
Your paragraph should prove you thoroughly read the source, you thought about it, you judged its strengths and weaknesses, and you determined whether it would help you in writing your essay.
