Use what you learned about close reading and analysis to share your insights,
understandings, and observations about the assigned primary source in a 150-200 word paragraph.
Consider questions such as: What was the author’s purpose in writing? What is the main idea or point
of the work? What is the experience, feeling, or emotion evoked by the work? How does the author
communicate this idea or create this experience? As you write, ensure that you are offering your own
ideas and thoughts about the primary source rather than summarizing the primary source. Support
your ideas with evidence from the primary source and include in-text citations where needed. To
complete this assignment, you should
1. Review the model for this assignment on the second page of these instructions.
2. Download the MLA Paper Template from the IRSC MLA Libguide.
3. Personalize the template.
4. Write the paragraph.
5. Edit your work.
6. Submit your Analysis Activity.
Grading: This assignment will be graded based on the
• Completeness and thoroughness of response.
• Presentation of insight and interpretation.
• Professional presentation of content with respect to spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Adherence to MLA formatting and citation guidelines.
The Analysis Activity requires students to
• Draft original, organized work.
• Adapt communication for tone, purpose, audience, and situation.
• Use essential Standard American English conventions including appropriate sentence structure,
grammar, and punctuation.
• Determine explicit and implicit meaning from complex texts.
• Follow professional formatting and citation style.
• Determine explicit and implicit meaning from complex texts.
