5-1 Project Draft for a First Audience

Overview

In this assignment, you will use the introduction, which includes the thesis statement that you wrote in the previous module, as a starting point to create the first version of the paper you will submit for your project. As such, your draft will focus on your analysis of the article you have been working with throughout the course. Because you have already drafted an introduction, you will now revise that introduction as needed and write the body paragraphs and conclusion.

Directions

For this assignment, you will develop a paper that explains the writer’s choices in relation to genre, audience, purpose, and subject. You will also write about the core idea of the text, as well as the details that support it, and use at least one quote from the article to support your analysis. All of these elements will be integrated into the body paragraphs of the paper, connecting them to the thesis statement that has outlined these key points. Remember that the goal of your paper is to go beyond explaining what the author does and focus more on analyzing whether or not you believe the author is successful or effective within the text. Your thesis statement should evaluate the author’s core idea, and the details that you highlight within the text should support your position about the author’s core idea to build your full analysis of the text.

Completing this assignment will result in a draft of the first part of your project. Complete this assignment using either the APA or MLA template linked in the What to Submit section. Your paper should be written in paragraph form and consist of an introduction paragraph, multiple body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph, incorporating the elements below.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Part One: Topic: Identify the topic of the text.
2. Part One: Genre: Explain the writer’s choices in relation to the genre of the text.
3. Part One: Purpose: Describe the writer’s purpose.
4. Part One: Audience, Purpose, and Subject: Explain the writer’s choices in relation to the audience, purpose, and subject of the text.
5. Part One: Historical and Cultural Context: Determine the historical and cultural context of the text.
6. Part One: Core Idea: Articulate and evaluate the core idea of the text.
7. Part One: Details: Summarize details of the text that are relevant to the core idea.
8. Part One: Evidence: Support your analysis of the core idea with evidence from the text.
   1. Include at least one quote from the text.
   2. Explain how this evidence supports the core idea.