Critical Reading Analysis. Literature & Language Essay

Write a conventional academic essay (approximately 5 pages double-spaced or 1250 words), with a clearly defined introduction, body, and conclusion.

1SOSC 2001 001 – Fall 2020
Assignment 2: Critical Analysis Exercise
Exercise Expectations:
The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with the opportunity to hone their critical thinkingskills in the social sciences. It should also help students generate possible questions or issues to bediscussed in class. The mark assigned for this exercise reflects students’ ability to grasp an academic textboth as an independent piece and as it relates to key course concepts.
Objectives:
For this exercise, students must submit a critical analysis of one text listed below from an anthropologicalperspective. Your critical analysis must: 1. include a summary of your chosen text’s argument (thesis), 2.discuss it in relation to other course readings/films, and 3. provide critiques and/or thoughtful questions inresponse to the article. See page two for more detail:
A) Shim, Doobo. 1998. “From Yellow Peril Through Model Minority to Renewed YellowPeril.” Journal of Communication Inquiry, 22(4):385-409.B) Reese, Ashanté. M. 2018. “‘We Will Not Perish; We’re Going to Keep Flourishing’: Race, FoodAccess, and Geographies of Self-Reliance.” Antipode, 50(2): 407–424.C) Harvey, David. 2005. “Introduction” and “Freedom’s Just Another Word…” In A Brief History ofNeoliberalism. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1-38.Format:
Students have the choice of completing their assignments in one of four ways:1. Write a conventional academic essay (approximately 5 pages double-spaced or 1250 words),with a clearly defined introduction, body, and conclusion.
2. Make an approximately 10-minute “podcast”/audio recording of your critical analysis, followedwith a 1 page (250 word) accompanying summary of the podcast/recording.
3. Create a relevant internet “meme” in that explores your chosen text’s themes followed withan accompanying 2-page (500 word) explanation of your meme and rationale. See:https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-is-a-meme/ for examples.
4. Produce a creative work in a medium of your choosing (e.g., a drawing, poem, mixtape,etc.) that explores your chosen text’s themes followed with an accompanying 2-page (500word) artist’s statement that explains your work and rationale.
* For assignments with multimedia components (e.g., options B, C, and D), please see the Canvas StudentGuide (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-upload-a-file-as-an-assignmentsubmission-in-Canvas/ta-p/274) for instructions on how to submit multiple files on Canvas for a singleassignment. Alternatively, students may embed images (e.g., memes, drawings, photos) or URLs to theirmedia objects into the same document as their summary/artist's statement.2Due Date:December 1st, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.How to Complete the Assignment:Given the breadth of possible formats for each assignment, your work should aim to address three corecomponents: i. a description or portrayal of your chosen article’s thesis/main point; ii. possible connectionsto broader course themes; and iii. your thoughts, reflections, and/or critiques of the article. How youincorporate these elements into your project will depend on the format you choose and your article. In otherwords, you have the flexibility to determine your assignment’s final form so long as it clearly incorporatesthese three elements. To complete this assignment, students should only use materials (e.g., readings, lectures,and films) from the course; external research is not expected for this assignment.Part One – Overall Thesis/Main Point (approximately 40% of content)In this section, students are expected to concisely describe one reading from the approved list (see above).This explanation should include a brief summary of the key points that the article/chapter is making. Themost successful answer should also clearly identify the author’s underlying argument. To do this, look forthe author’s thesis statement (usually in the introduction) and pay attention to how the author demonstratesor supports this thesis (main point) with evidence (examples).Part Two – How does the article relate to broader course themes? (approximately 40% of content)The chosen readings are assigned to complement several key anthropological concepts discussed in class.In this section, students must demonstrate how their chosen text fits within these broader course themes. Asuccessful answer will analyze the text in relation to specific films and readings from the weekly modules.They may address, for example, how the author discusses social class in a unique way, or how class in thearticle may relate to ideas of race and racism as discussed in the course.Part Three – Your relevant questions and concerns with the article (approximately 20% of content)In this section, students are asked to provide their own questions, thoughts, and/or critiques in response tothe article. Your questions should demonstrate that you understood the article and should go beyond generalsummaries. These are questions and concerns that should highlight any theoretical gaps, related issues, orproblems that you may have found in the article. Some of these questions may also be raised in the lecturevideos, so pay close attention when these themes are being discussed. Good questions should relate thearticle to larger class discussions.Guidelines for Success:• It is not necessary to detail every point made in the reading. Your summary should provide an overallassessment of the specific details of larger points without repeating descriptive elements verbatim.• Some articles are rich in ethnographic detail. Do not try to summarize all of these details. Instead, try tofigure out how ethnographic description is being used to make a larger point.• Be sure that you do your own work. Work that is clearly paraphrased without credit or copied fromanother source, including from other students, will be given a mark of zero.