The Analytical Research Paper

Topic: HIV

four secondary source needed

8 pages

MLA format

 12-point Times New Roman font, work cited!

Objectives:

Analyze primary sources and the messages they convey in written, visual, and/or audio media

Explore and make claims about how the messages are conveyed

Discuss to whom the messages are conveyed and speculate about the effectiveness of this message for a specific audience

Develop a complex thesis that makes a claim about how a primary source communicates a message to a specific audience

Introduce complicating evidence and include what The Writer’s Companion terms an “evolving thesis”

Demonstrate awareness about your role in the conversation about your research question and thesis by acknowledging what is at stake in your analysis. In other words, explain why your analysis matters

Integrate secondary sources in a way that accounts for aspects of the academic conversation that are relevant to the paper’s thesis

Include a title on the first page that reflects the complexity of the paper’s general purposes

Include proper in-text citations of each source consulted or referred to, including the primary source which you’re analyzing, and an appropriately formatted Works Cited page following MLA guidelines

Observe the standards of academic writing discussed in class and avoid sentence-level errors and lapses in tone. Produce fluid and precise prose with appropriate transitions throughout