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Assignment Sheet for the Critical Response Essay3.docx
English 1201
Essay #1 Summary and Critical Response
The Purpose of this Writing Assignment
The Critical Response assignment is designed to give you an opportunity to:
Practice thinking critically:
When you think critically, you do not simply accept ideas at face value. Instead, you question these ideas, analyzing them to understand them better. You also challenge their underlying assumptions and form your own judgments about them.
Practice reading critically:
Reading critically does not mean arguing with every idea you encounter. What it does mean is commenting, questioning, and judging. As a critical reader, you do not simply accept that what you are reading is true or reasonable. Instead, you assess the accuracy of the facts in the text(s) you are reading, and you consider whether opinions are convincingly supported by evidence. You try to judge the appropriateness and reliability of the text(s), and you evaluate the scope and depth of the evidence and the relevance of that evidence to the topic. You also consider opposing arguments carefully, measuring them against the arguments developed by the writer. Finally, you watch out for possible bias in the text(s) you are reading and you work hard to keep your own biases in check.
Practice writing critically:
Before you can respond in writing to an argument, you need to be sure that you understand what the writer means to get across and that you have a sense of how the ideas are arranged and why. You also need to consider how convincingly the writer conveys his or her position.
Begin by reading the argument carefully, annotating it and thinking about it as weve discussed in class. From here you should have a good idea about what the writer wants to communicate to readers as well as how successfully the argument makes its point.
Begin writing down your ideas and own responses, considering the evidence presented as you began to make your own reasoned conclusions. Keep in mind that the most common features of critical writing are:
a clear and confident refusal to accept the conclusions of other writers without evaluating the arguments and evidence that they provide
a balanced presentation of reasons why the conclusions of other writers may be accepted or may need to be treated with caution
a clear presentation of your own evidence and argument, leading to your conclusion; and
a recognition of the limitations in your own evidence, argument, and conclusion.
The Writing Task
In an approximately 3-5 page Summary and Critical Response, summarize and analyze the ideas and arguments presented by just one of the essays that I have included in our eLearn shell. Then, express your personal reactions.
Begin by identifying the source and its author; then write a clear, concise summary of the writers position. Next, analyze the arguments supporting points one by one, considering the strength of the evidence that is presented. Also, consider whether the writer addresses all significant opposing arguments and whether those arguments are refuted convincingly. Quote, paraphrase, and summarize the writers key points as you go along, being careful to do so accurately so that you do not misrepresent the writers ideas or distort them by using them out of context.
Identify arguments you find unconvincing, poorly supported, or irrelevant, or those arguments that you find well-supported, compelling, and effective. At the end of your response, sum up your assessment of the argument in a strong concluding statement that engages your reader one last time and keeps him/her thinking about your response for years to come. It could happen!
Include a final Works Cited page. Because this is a single-source essay, your Works Cited will include only the citation in MLA format for the essay you chose to analyze.
Formatting Instructions
Final drafts must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font. The default setting in Microsoft Word is 11-point Calibri, so remember that you will always have to go in and change the font size when you begin to write something new.
Make sure your essay double-spaced with one inch margins. The default margin setting is already at one inch. However, you must change the spacing above and below the line. Look again at the formatting of the student sample, or ask me if you have any questions. This is the first paper of the semester, so there are NO dumb questions, especially about formatting!
Staple your final draft in the upper left-hand corner.
Use only plain white paper.
There is no separate title page, so in the upper left-hand corner of page one, you will type your name, my name (Dair Arnold), course number and section (ENG 1201.113) and the date (this is the date that you actually turn in the paper…so, if you turn the paper in late, or if you submit a revision of the paper later in the term, the date would reflect that new day).
Use MLA format for citing sources. This applies to in-text parenthetical documentation and to Works Cited pages.
link-reference-question.txt
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/college-football-falling-apart/615277/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share
