Article/Chapter Analysis

Overview

750-1000-word analysis of an article/chapter Peer Review Draft Due 7/13
Peer Review Comments Due 7/14
Final Draft Due 7/15

Goals/Objectives

Your article/chapter analysis requires you to analyze text in your field in order to advance or refine your critical reading, analysis, organization, and idea development strategies.

Project Description

Choose one article, book chapter, etc. related to an important topic in your discipline. You may want to choose one that you discussed last week in Project 1 in terms of its formal features. However, it’s also perfectly fine not to use one that you included in your last project. Just be sure to consult the same library resources you used last time in order to search for the text you discuss this week. Remember, your chosen article MUST be at least five-pages long and from a well-regarded periodical in your discipline.

Next, write a 750-1000-word analysis of your chosen article/chapter. This is NOT a summary of the text. That is, you are not merely offering a synopsis of what the author wrote, but instead you’ll want to determine the validity of an author’s argument and take a stand on whether the author achieved her/his purpose(s). To make this determination, you mustobjectively analyze the text. Be sure also to follow the “steps” and “moves” of analytical writing included in Lesson 6. Especially, make sure you include a “So what?” Until you answer this question and arrived at an interpretation of its meaning and purpose, you will not have completed your

analysis. See Lesson 6 for more details.

Begin your analysis with a short introduction, which introduces the article/chapter and offers a thesis, and end with a short conclusion that includes what you see as the most important observations you made about the scholarly text you discussed.

*****The articles from project 1 are attached in a word called References.