introduce the text by including a short summary (roughly 1-3 sentences). You may want to lead into the summary by briefly introducing the topic of the argument, providing background about the topic, or raising a question for the readers to think about.
Include a thesis statement in your introduction that makes an assertion about the effectiveness of the writer?s argument and identifies the criteria on which you are basing your assertion.
The thesis will need to identify some of the author?s rhetorical strategies; these will be the criteria for your evaluation and will become the points you develop in your body paragraphs. Because this paper is only 3-5 pages, it?s best to focus on or three criteria, no more.
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