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ARP Step 5: The Analytical Research Paper (Final)
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In the time since you turned in your Analytical Research Paper rough draft, you have received my feedback on your draft, finalized and presented your Symposium Presentation, viewed your classmates' presentations, conducted in-class peer review on your ARP revisions, and reflected in class and in writing on the ways your experience in the English Symposium may inform your Analytical Research Paper. Now you should make final revisions to your ARP and turn it in as your last assignment for this class.
Objectives:
Revise your ARP so that it responds more fully to the Objectives in ARP Step 4: The Analytical Research Paper (Rough Draft)
Integrate instructor and peer feedback, as well as your own evolving understandings of your topic.
Essential Elements of the Final Analytical Research Paper
1. The Introduction Paragraph
Context: The majority of the introduction should NOT be about the primary source. Instead the introduction paragraph should explain the context the reader needs to understand in order to follow you analysis of the primary source.
Here are some examples of the context you might choose for your introduction paragraph:
The historical moment: the Black Lives Matter movement and the issues it seeks to address.
The historical moment: current evidence of anti-Black state violence
The particular moment in the photo: for example, description of a particular protest and the events that preceded it
History of athlete activism
History of artist activism
Explanation of a commonly held belief that your paper will push back against.
Please note: if you choose a context that is not the Black Lives Matter movement or the current evidence of anti-Black state violence, you will likely need to give information about either or both of these things at some point in your paper.
Your primary source in your introduction:
At the very end of your introduction paragraph you should introduce your primary source. This typically works in two sentences:
Second to last sentence of the paragraph: Identifies your primary source and how it relates to the context.
Last sentence of the paragraph: Makes a claim that you intend to prove about your primary source. This is your thesis statement. Does your thesis statement relate to all of the claims you make throughout your paper? If not, revise your thesis statement. Also, review the work we did in Chapter 7 about how to construct a strong thesis statement.
2. Immediately following the introduction paragraph: Detailed explanation of your primary source. (2 or more paragraphs)
Tells the specific who, what, when, where of your primary source (where it first appeared, etc.)
Detailed description of the source, highlighting relevant details.
Your initial analysis of the primary source.
3. Secondary Source Integration
You should use the next several paragraphs (several pages) to introduce your secondary sources. For each secondary source you should:
Summarize the source and the relevant argument the source makes.
Show how the source helps you develop your analysis of the primary source further or in new ways.
OR show how the argument in the primary source is faulty and push back against it in your analysis of your primary source.
Please note: This section looks short here, but it is the longest and most complicated section. I gave everyone very detailed feedback on their Secondary Source Integration assignments about how to effectively craft this section. If you follow that feedback very carefully, you will have success with this section of the paper. If you ignore it … you will probably not have success with this section of the paper.
4. Your Analysis
After you work with your secondary sources, you must continue your analysis with your own twist. Your analysis should:
Build off (or push back against) the arguments and analysis from your secondary sources,
Be based in an interpretation of facts and not unsupported ideas,
Make new and further developed claim(s) about your primary source.
Please note: For you as a writer, this is the most important section of the paper because it is where you show your most developed critical thinking.
5. Conclusion
The conclusion should be one paragraph and it should contain a restated or evolved version of your thesis statement.
Purpose of the Conclusion: Show the reader why and how your thesis matters. Your readers know more about your subject matter now, so your conclusion can explain the “so what?” of the paper in a more complex way than your introduction.
Possible ways to get at the questions of how and why your thesis matters:
Does your thesis have broader implications than you discussed in the introduction?
Does your thesis shed light on the historical context?
Are there troubling questions that your thesis points to?
6. Works Cited Page: should contain MLA citations for your primary and secondary sources.
