The Assignment Write an essay that leads your reader through an evolving thesis

The Assignment Write an essay that leads your reader through an evolving thesis analyzing how your speech represents an issue, context, figure, or phenomenon. This essay should be a response to the Inquiry Question that has guided your research throughout the unit. The essay should: * be centered on a thesis arguing for a certain understanding of what the speech communicates to its audience. * present an analysis of visual and textual details and use secondary sources as lenses to further this analysis. * put your secondary sources in conversation with one another by considering how they can help the reader understand the speech’s visual deliery, words, and argument in different ways; * ultimately persuade your reader toward this new understanding of what the speech is communicating. How does your analysis of the sources prove your interpretation of the speech’s content and delivery? Conclude your essay with a compelling claim that has evolved and become more complex over the course of the essay. The essay’s claim should be focused on the analysis of the speech and should build out to demonstrate how the speech speaks to a larger issue.   Strategies Evolving thesis. Your evolving thesis should be a response to your Inquiry Question that has guided your work in the unit thus far, but this question may have changed as you have conducted research. Above all else, your thesis should evolve in complexity and should offer a claim about how the speech helps you explore an issue, context, figure, or phenomenon. Secondary sources. Use your secondary sources either as lenses or as supporting sources to analyze the speech (think about the different ways you’ve used sources in Essay 1 and Essay 2). Consider how each source could help you extend or complicate the claims you’re making. Put the sources in conversation with each other to explore the visual and textual representations at play: where would they agree or disagree, or how could their ideas build on each other? Analysis. Focus your analysis on the specific details from the words, argument construction, delivery, and visual recording that speak most directly to the concerns of your Inquiry Question. You do not need to account for every detail; instead, be selective and use “10 on 1” to say more about less. Utilize the visual and textual tools we have discussed in class.   Criteria for Evaluation 1. Does the Essay have an evolving thesis about how the speech helps better understand an issue, context, figure, or phenomenon? Does it demonstrate a clear, sophisticated argument? 2. Does the Essay incorporate appropriate sources to support, complicate, and extend the thesis? Does the essay present an accurate conversation among the sources? Are these sources reliable and appropriate for the argument presented? 3. Does the Essay analyze specific visual and textual details from the speech’s argument and delivery and analyze evidence from the sources in order to develop the argument? Does the accurate interpretation of these details support the claims of the essay? 4. Does the Essay exhibit clarity and coherence? Do its ideas progress logically through the use of transitions, attributive tags, and appropriate word choice? Does it adhere to MLA format and citation standards and contain few, if any, grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors? – [ ]