Document Analysis End of Quarter Assignment

For each document provided, analyze the author's argument, line of reasoning, and the effectiveness of the evidence used. Answer the three questions for each document to demonstrate your understanding and analytical skills.

Analyze the document 'Censorship: For the People, or for Controlling the People?' by Jessica McBirney.

Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.

Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

Analyze the document 'I went from prison to professor' by Stanley Andrisse.

Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.

Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

Analyze the poem 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost.

Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.

Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

Analyze the poem 'Sympathy' by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.

Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

Analyze the document 'What Fear Can Teach Us' by Karen Thompson Walker.

Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.

Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

Analyze the document 'Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me' by George Takei.

Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.

Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

After analysing all of the documents answer these two questions.

Find an overall theme that encapsulates the messages from all of these works.

Establish which two works best showcase this theme.