Description:
– 5 paragraphs essay
– you will focus on how the argument is written and what is effective or ineffective about it.
– Introduce the text by including a brief summary (roughly 1-3 sentences). You may want to lead into the summary by briefly introducing the topic of the argument, providing background about the topic, or raising a question for the readers to think about.
– Include a thesis statement in your introduction that makes an assertion about the effectiveness of the writers argument and identifies the criteria on which you are basing your assertion.
– The thesis will need to identify some of the authors rhetorical strategies; these will be the criteria for your evaluation and will become the points you develop in your body paragraphs.
– To support your assertion and illustrate the criteria you have chosen, use specific references from the text.
– Create an original title that reflects the central idea of your essay.
– Thesis: The thesis should make an assertion about the effectiveness of the argument based on how the writer uses certain rhetorical strategies
– Thesis: The thesis should make an assertion about the effectiveness of the argument based on how the writer uses certain rhetorical strategies
– MLA citation
