Assignment Options
Building on the summaries in CO300, the summary/response essay represents students' chance to begin arguing with the authors of assigned articles. The students' arguments, of course, can fulfill different aims:
- Students might want to inquire by concentrating on additional questions they might pose to the author.
- Students might want to convince by giving additional evidence of agreement/ disagreement
- Or students might want to convince by analyzing the logic and completeness of the argument in the original essay.
- Students might write to persuade the original author of the article to reshape an argument based on careful textual or rhetorical analysis of the essay.
Any of these options works well for the summary/response essay.