• Produce a draft of an essay that explains “Chapter 2” of Understanding Comics to academic readers who have no knowledge of their work, and that points out to those readers what issues and critical questions the text raises.
• Since your readers are academics, they expect your essay to summarize “Chapter 2” of Understanding Comics in academic ways, which includes the following:
• Introducing the source text properly, including the full name of the author and the title of her/his/their work
• Integrating and citing direct quotes and paraphrases according to MLA convention
• Providing information about the source’s background, rhetorical situation, and a breakdown of her/his/their argument
• Identify issues or questions that the text raises that merit further research (questions that elicit complex, debatable answers and are suitable for academic inquiry)
• identify a central issue that is raised by the text and that is of interest to you. Then, think about how you might structure your essay to summarize the course text and pose questions for further research into the central issue you identified.
• The end result should be a summary and analysis of this “Chapter 2” of Understanding Comics that demonstrates your ability to interpret and critically engage texts in sophisticated and academically-acceptable ways, and to generate critical questions that invite further inquiry into issues that the text raises.
Establish a central theme that grows out of an issue raised by the course theme text and provide a title indicating that theme
Demonstrate understanding of the course theme text by providing a clear, logically-structured, and thorough summary of the text’s content (Summarize the source text so that readers who haven’t read it will understand your essay)
Provide relevant background and rhetorical information about the text (Do some research on the author and where her/his/their essay was published and include that information where it makes sense to do so; also, include information about the author’s rhetorical situation–audience, purpose, context.
Identify the text’s central claims and evidence given to support those claims (Explain what the author of the text wants readers to think or believe and how she/he/they support that position.
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