Tues. Feb. 4, 2014: Understanding purpose

Today, you were put into groups to answer questions on the reading you received yesterday. I have pasted the questions below. A number of skills are being tested in this assignment including the following: title attribution, proper citation, topic identification, evidence identification, understanding audience, understanding purpose in context.

If you were not here, these need to be completed for the next class that you are here for.

Questions for Analyzing any Essay

 

1.      What is the title of the essay?

 

 

2.      What is the “Works Cited” information for this essay (properly presented in MLA format)

 

3.      What is the topic of this essay?

 

4.      What evidence is provided to support the topic of the essay?

 

5.      Who is the speaker of this essay?

 

6.      Who is the audience of this essay?

 

7.      What evidence is there to support that the audience is the one you chose?

 

8.      What is the purpose of reading this essay (think about the class you are in and what the teacher’s goal might be. There may be more than one!)

 

9.      What is your response to this message (you can agree and explain, providing evidence, or you can create a rebuttal providing evidence. You can do this in point form.