Produce a summary and analysis of this first course theme text 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.

Produce a summary and analysis of this first course theme text 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.

Detailed breakdown of the requirements for the assignment:

Establish a central theme that grows out of an issue raised by “From Outside, In” and provide a title indicating that theme

Demonstrate understanding of the text by providing a clear, logically-structured, and thorough summary of the text’s content

Provide relevant background and rhetorical information about the text

Identify the text’s central claims and evidence given to support those claims

Integrate and cite direct and indirect passages in accordance with the conventions of academic research

Meet academic expectations for clarity, cohesion, organization, paragraph structure, grammar, and mechanics

Use Times New Roman, black pt. 12 font, double-spaced, and indent paragraphs

Meet a minimum length of 750 words of revised, polished writing (three pages)

Explain the writer’s connection to an issue raised in the text

Pose critical questions for further research that grow out of the text and that encourage complex, debatable answers or are otherwise suitable for academic inquiry

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