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Cal Newport, “The Minimalist Companion”
Peter Sagal, “Distance”
Bonnie Tsui, “The Grasshopper”
also find at least three additional texts related to the relevant topics that you can use as sources and integrate into your discussion. (So there will be at least six texts integrated into your discussion — one of the assigned texts and three additional “research” sources.) Make and clearly explain useful connections among the various texts and topics, and be sure that your own voice controls the discussion.
?These do not need to be “scholarly” in the sense of publication in academic journals, but they should definitely be more substantive and content-rich than a typical blog post?
ATTACHMENTSA quick glance tells us that development will definitely be an issue with this draft: you’ve written a classic five paragraph discussion (which we know would be inadequate for the discussion of even a single article—and for this project you’re supposed to be discussing six separate texts by six different authors).
Sure enough, you attempt to cover each selected assigned article and its “paired” additional source in a single paragraph, which means each article gets only a handful of sentences (which of necessity consist largely of summary). To be clear, you absolutely need to be spending multiple paragraphs on each article you’re discussing, in order to have the space for presentation, contextualization, quotation, examples, analysis, and connections—all the textual-engagement skills we’ve been practicing all semester.
Requirements: 800words