Please make sure you are familiar with writing Summary & Critique Essays.
If the rough draft is done well, we’ll be working together for the final draft and other future assignments as well.
Please do a Summary & Critique Essay about the attached article “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs”
You are required to do 1 Page of Pre-writing followed by 3 pages of Rough Draft as separate documents. (All single spaced)
Please note that the pre-writing should be like a brainstorming practice of one page of none stop writing to get ideas of what you want to talk about in the paper, (it’s like one page scratch draft of the rough draft) so it’s ok to sound a little casual and no quotations are needed in the pre-writing. (You need to first do the pre-writing then complete the idea by doing the rough draft)
Please follow the instructor notes:
In writing this critique, develop both an introduction and a conclusion as well as the main body of the critique. or advice on critical reading. See particularly the Guidelines for writing critiques box in chapter 5 ( I have attached Chapter 5 here as well)
follow step by step in your writing:
- To begin, you will first need to summarize the entire article (remember to cite it!).
- Next, craft a thesis that states the extent to which you agree or disagree with the author and that states your overall evaluation of the article.
- Organize and develop the body of your evaluation around specific points:
- State the point of evaluation as a clear topic sentence.
- Cite specific examples in the selection that illustrate this observation.
- Discuss these examples in two or three follow-on sentences in one paragraph or at greater length in two or more paragraphs.
- In preparing to write, consider the following questions. Your responses may help you to formulate elements of your critique:
- To what extent do you agree or disagree with the points in the article?
- What underlying assumptions has the author built his or her claims on? And are those assumptions valid?
- What is the purpose of the article: to persuade, to inform, to entertain?
- How well does the author succeed in his or her purpose?
- What is the tone of the article and does it serve the author’s purpose well?
- What assumptions does the author make about the readers, their belief system, their values, their knowledge of the topic?
- Can you detect any bias in the author?
- What issues are ignored?
- Assess the quality of the author’s evidence.
- Does the author establish strong ethos, and if so, how?
- How does the author exhibit and pathos and logos, and is this done well?
The summary and all quotations and paraphrases must be documented with in-text and on your Works Cited page. Only MLA format is allowed.
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