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Next week, you'll be working on a News Analysis. For Wednesday, you're reading DL for RN3 and a news article from The New York Times.

If you need to plan ahead, these are the guidelines for your first News Analysis:


News Analysis
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.

What does this mean, exactly?

1. Use any ideas from class to analyze the topic and issues. It does NOT have to be an example of SJ Doc according to our criteria. It does NOT have to be an example of a social injustice.

2. Your goal is to simply use ideas from our class to analyze the story/the circumstances/the cultural meaning.

3. When I ask: "How does this relate to our themes?" I am looking for you to seriously and thoughtfully reflect on the information, using any ideas from our class as tools.

4. You might consider: What interesting connections have you found between this and any of our texts/other news/an OH?

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

A reminder: I know that we have had limited time to review MLA formatting. There are three things you need to consider: a) how to integrate both quotes and paraphrased ideas into your writing--DH p. 418-423, b) in-text citations that show where the info comes from and how it is linked to your Work Cited list--DH p.426-435, c) a Work Cited that follows the MLA formatting to document your source--DH p.437, 452.

You can do exercises related to all these things by skimming the Hacker website.

E-mail me or come see me with questions.

-Olivia