ASSIGNMENT
Analyze an essay in an attempt to argue the author’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness in getting his/her message across to his/her intended audience.
This will require you not only to identify the purpose of his/her work but also to identify who the intended audience is.
After selecting any essay from our textbook or an article from online, follow the guidelines below in order to articulate your argument of the source work’s effectiveness.
Be sure to consider the author’s intended purpose and intended audience. Also consider what parts of the essay reached or failed to reach the intended audience, and why those parts succeeded or failed.
When analyzing writing, there are a variety of things you can possibly discuss involving the text, from close readings of sentence structure, word choice, and tone to deeper messages or commentary on cultural matters and historical context.
Analysis is based on interpretation, so find your own interpretations of the text and build your analysis from there.
Your essay will be 3-4 pages in length and follow MLA formatting guidelines.
