Following the Analytical Research Instruction to write the paper with best work

In the previous steps of the Analytical Research Project, you have developed analytical claims about the primary evidence, formulated research questions, found appropriate sources, and revised your analysis to integrate secondary evidence. Now you are ready to revise again.

Using the objectives below you will compose an Analytical Research Paper that functions as the culmination of the Analytical Research Project. As a reminder, The Writer’s Companion has offered a number of techniques for thinking and writing analytically. Chapters 3 (19-28) and 4 (29-52) discuss strategies for rhetorical analysis, including ethos, logos and pathos in the ARP; the Analytical Toolkit; and the Method. Chapter 6 (63-83) helps you think through connecting evidence and claims, and chapter 9 focuses on “Big Picture” approaches to paper organization. These chapters will help you work through the assignment’s objectives listed below.

This assignment should be 7-8 pages, double-spaced, typed in 12-point font, and set to 1” margins.

Objectives:

• Analyze primary sources, what 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

Getting Started:

In order to complete a sound Analytical Research Paper, you must engage with sources that will yield complex and compelling thesis claims when analyzed. You might consider these steps in order to get started on this assignment:

• Revisit feedback provided for the PSA, Annotated Bibliography, and SSI

• Return to your Secondary Source Integration, which acts as the foundation for your final Analytical Research Paper.

• How might your thesis need to evolve to account for the changes you anticipate making? Be sure that you have a complex thesis, supported by evidence.

• Where else and how might you build upon what you have already written?

• How could you reorganize your SSI for greater rhetorical effect?

• If necessary, do additional research to find primary or secondary evidence to further support and/or complicate your analytical claims.

• Provide an introduction that leads naturally to your thesis.

• Develop a conclusion that demonstrates the evolution of your argument throughout the paper.