For this first assignment, choose a web site, a commercial, a print ad, photo, or essay for this assignment. You can choose something that
Major Assignment 1: Evaluation Argument
For this first assignment, choose a web site, a commercial, a print ad, photo, or essay for this assignment. You can choose something that is related to your field, choose something outside of your field that interests you. If you wish, you can also choose something that represents a larger idea or argument that you might pursue for your larger paper. For example, if you think that you might want to research health care policies regarding the illnesses that 911 first responders who got sick from working at ground zero are fighting for, you can choose an image that captures the heart of that issue.
Your essay should start by summarizing the context, content or senario, and goals of the text. What argument is the ad, website, commercial, photo, or essay attempting to make (“You should buy this”, “you should believe that”, you should act”, “you should feel” etc) Write a thesis driven argument in which you develop a set of criteria, and then examine the success or failure of the ad, commercial, web site or essay based on your criteria.
Answer preview or For this first assignment, choose a web site, a commercial, a print ad, photo, or essay for this assignment. You can choose something that
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