How to Engage and Write about Anything

Title: Analysis and Critique: How to Engage

and Write about Anything

• Course Guidebook by Professor Dorsey Armstrong

• URL

Key takeaways;

• Starting your claim
  • by explaining your dictionary first
  • focus on dictionaries/ terminology just like when teaching new language
• For ongoing claims, provide clear flows and connections
  • e.g. what, so what storyline
  • e.g. first, secondly, thirdly story flow
  • Provide explicit connections between steps, e.g., by repeating last sentence of last paragraph/ point to first sentence to next point
• How Supporting your claims
  • to spell out direct connections from your evidence to claims, making connections very explicit
  • e.g. present opposing claims to clarify your own claims
• How concluding claims
  • e.g. negative consequences conclusion
• Extra/: a simple flow for resume writing
  • interest
  • achievement
  • ability