week 11 essay

You can choose one of two approaches to this assignment.

1. Write an essay analyzing the quality of the argument in one of three articles, either “While Elgin Marble Debate Rages, There is Still a Market for Looted Antiquities,” “To return or not: Who should own indigenous art?,” or “Cultural Relativism.” If you choose to analyze the quality of the argument in one of these articles, then your thesis should make an assertion about the quality of the argument and your evidence will be drawn from the text of the article you choose.
2. Write an essay creating your own logical argument on either the issue of where cultural artifacts belong, or on “Whorf’s Hypothesis.” If you choose to create your own logical argument on one of these issues, then your thesis should offer your own assertion, and your evidence will be drawn from your own examples and observations.

How to Proceed

Begin by understanding college expectations for writing to analyze.

When you write to analyze a text, you identify what you want to analyze – content, language, purpose, structure. Your essay will have a thesis that, in some way, offers your own insight and assertion about the quality of the information in the article. Remember that analysis breaks down the whole into parts and examines those parts in order to evaluate the quality of ideas and content in the whole.

When you write to analyze an issue, you also break that issue into its parts and examine its parts in order to support your own insight and assertion.

Note that this is not a research essay; please confine yourself to referencing the articles you’ve chosen. The bulk of your essay should still consist of your own details and examples that support your thesis and topic sentence assertions.

Assignment Completion Questions – include at the end of the assignment

1. What are the 12 main concepts about reading and writing processes that you learned in this module? Please focus on reading and writing processes, and not the content of the articles. Consider what you read about reading and writing, and what you learned through both the skill self-assessment and writing assignment.
2. What challenged you in learning these reading and writing concepts and applying them to write your assignment?
3. What might you do for the next assignment to lessen the challenge?
4. Identify a different situation (academic or non-academic) and explain how you might apply a concept learned in this module to that situation.