Part of writing an effective analytical research paper (like the one eventually due in week 7) involves using evidence not only from the literature (primary sources) but from the works of professional academic research (secondary sources).
Therefore, you will need to be able to properly locate, analyze, and evaluate scholarly sources. This activity will help you build these research skills.
For this assignment, choose a scholarly critical article from one of the GMC Library databases that makes a clear argument about any one of the stories you’ve read for class so far.
The article you choose must provide more than basic biographical information and plot summary alone- it must make an opinionated argument about some aspect of the literary work you’ve read for class.
Summarize the article’s main ideas, then evaluate your article’s merits is the author’s topic interesting? Did you agree with its ideas? Did the author do an effective job proving their argument why or why not?
Your complete summary/evaluation should be at least 300 words in length and fully address all requirements.
Structure:
Clearly identify the author’s topic and main points in a brief summary of the article.
You should then provide an evaluation of these main points and explain how this article’s argument is relevant or convincing to you (or not), and why