Analytical Essay

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About the Assignment

This semester, I will ask you to write an analytical essay that serves as a cornerstone to the mediated public sphere that interests you the most. I will offer three essay prompts (one in each sphere), and it is up to you to decide which one essay prompt to complete. Most prompts will function similarly, asking you to analyze a particular and situated genre through the lens of our critical texts. To “essay” means to endeavor, to try towards, or to claim, so you’ll focus it on a critical discovery you have made based on your analytical lens, and you’ll unfold that discovery in a series of smaller claims that synthesize, rather than merely summarize, the critical texts that you choose. Your discovery should be interesting and vital, not redundant or obvious. It should advance your own and others’ thinking about what we’re doing in this class; it should not simply opine or defend a position.


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