Does the essay:

• Effectively analyze the article?
  • Analysis includes
    • identifying the article’s overall thesis
    • breaking its arguments into constituent elements
    • showing how those parts function together
    • evaluating the effectiveness of arguments and evidence, taking note of counter arguments, nuance, and areas of uncertainty
    • taking into account what isn’t said in the article (what points have been left out, what are the “holes in the story”?)

• Link the discussion of the article to our broader theme of “formation/appropriation of self?
• Address how the essay uses rhetoric to persuade and in general address the author’s use of language and rhetoric in the article?
• Address the ideas presented in the article in a serious way, taking into account complexity? (I.e., no shallow readings here.)
• Employ a structure that is logical, effective, and striking?
• Use language in an original and powerful way, creating in readers a sense of surprise and delight?
• Adhere to the standards of written English, while additionally demonstrating an impressive understanding of audience and verbal register?
• Speak with authority to readers through the evident intensity of the writer’s engagement with subject matter?