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.

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.

Here again is a more 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