Friday, January 23, 2009

Upcoming Short Essay: News Analysis #1

News Analysis 1

Use the news story you read for homework. It should be related to our themes and, unless we discussed an alternative, should be from nytimes.com

Your job is to analyze the story according to our themes-- definitely IMY's ideas (social groups, oppression, criteria/five faces), maybe ideas about Documentation, maybe Social Justice in general.

Use any ideas from class to analyze the topic and issues. How does this relate to our themes? What interesting connections have you found?

Your analysis should include a clear thesis statement (in one complete sentence) that states your idea about this news item.

Use class notes and DH to quote the article and to put your citations in MLA format. In this case, you'll just have just one single source at the end ("Work Cited").

2-3 COMPLETE pages, double-spaced (you will be deducted points for underdeveloped, too short essays).

Thesis Statement=10 points
Development (with ideas, quotes, examples)=10 points
Use of MLA formatting=5 points
Grammar, Mechanics, Spelling=5 points

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