Discussion

Since you are building toward a complete Project 3 for Peer Review, we will once again use the following texts for this discussion:

· "A Modest Proposal"

· " Everybody's Plastic"

· "Our Fear of Immigrants"

· " What's Eating America"

Make sure to refer back to all of the material in the previous discussions to help you compose the various parts of this discussion. How to Write a Thesis Statement will help with creating a claim about the author and the text. It is a short video from Professor Thomas.

For this post, there are four components:

1. This discussion represents the next common step in the writing process - drafting. Lead into your composition with the subject or theme the author is addressing, introduce the text and author, and provide a brief summary for context. You should be familiar with this from the Summary Writing exercises. Once you establish this as a basis, create a claim about the writer's purpose, and use a direct quote or quotes to help illustrate and support your claims. You may need to use a bit of paraphrase to set this up effectively. Next, explain how the quote(s) illustrates, clarifies and/or supports your ideas (choose thoughtfully). Your post must be at least one strong paragraph where you analyze the ideas from the author, it must incorporate evidence from the text with in-text citations and/or attribution, and it should be a thoughtful writing. I recommend using the AXES and Common Structure documents to help. These provide directive structure that is often expected for academic writing.

2. Just as in our previous discussions, your paragraph must be followed by documentation (i.e. MLA Works Cited or APA References). Don't worry about the hanging indent if you have trouble formatting. The discussion board is not set up in the same manner as a word processor. Just place the documentation directly below the paragraph. Additionally, make sure to add page numbers, paragraph numbers, or timestamps in parenthesis at the end of sentences which have any information which is summarized, paraphrased, or directly quoted from one of the sources.