Your paper should be 3 pages long. You will use 2 sources to help support your analysis. Your two sources should come from academic journals found in print or on the internet.
You should begin by picking a problem related to your final argumentative essay. Then you should establish a analytic tool to use as the basis for your analysis. The analytic tool should be a “principle or definition that makes a statement about the way something works” (Behrens and Rosen 174). Think about your analytic tool as a lens through which you analyze your particular problem. Your analytic tool is a way to help your reader better understand the problem you are analyzing. One way to understand this is idea is through literary critique. If you were to analyze a piece of literature, you might take a post-modern approach, a feminist approach, a psychoanalytical approach, or a Marxist approach. The same concept applies here. You need a way to examine this problem. The tool you choose will structure your approach to the examination.
You should introduce and summarize the problem to be analyzed. Then you should present a case for why analysis is needed. Locate an analytic tool. The beginning of your analysis should argue for the validity of this principle or definition. Analyze your problem by applying your analytic tool to the the problem’s components. Think about this as breaking apart the problem into manageable pieces. Conclude by stating what is significant about your analysis. What new insights have you made? How has your analytical tool helped to broaden your reader’s understanding of the problem?
You need an argumentative thesis that states the problem you intend to analyze and the lens through which you intend to analyze it. Use paraphrase, quotation, and summary to help support your argument.