The response essay is expected to summarize and analyze the 3 scholarly articles.
Your summary of the articles include:
1. Description of the research problem, research question, and the purpose of the scholarly article(s).
2. Explanation of the key terms, central claim (thesis), and assumption/hypothesis of the article(s).
3. Illustration of the arguments addressed by the author to support his/her thesis.
4. Summary of the evidence the author offers to answer the research question (or explain the thesis).
5. Summary of the author’s conclusion.
In your analysis of the scholarly articles, you should:
1. Examine the logic of the author’s argument. Does it make sense to you? Why or why not?
2. Include your own voice by weighting the author’s arguments, evaluating the evidence cited by the
author, and raising critical questions.
3. Consider whether the author consider counter-evidence and counter-arguments? If he/she does, how
well does the scholarly article address the counter-evidence and counter-arguments?
4. If there is something that you believe is important that the author neglects, point it out and state what
you think its significance is.
In addition to understanding each article individually, you also need to consider the supplementary
readings with the main text collectively and think about the following questions:
1. Explain how the scholarly articles relate to one another and to the chapter in the main text (SCD)? Do
they address different aspects of an issue or formulate a problem discussed in the text chapter in
different ways? Explain how the articles relate to and “speak” to one another. Synthesize them if
you can, and if you cannot, explain what the barriers preventing such a synthesis are.
2. If the articles fall on both sides of an issue, consider where agreements and disagreements lie and
what each side’s strengths and weaknesses are. Each of the response essay is expected to summarize and analyze the scholarly articles (listed in the
“supplementary readings” in Course Schedule) assigned to ONE chapter.
Your summary of the articles include:
1. Description of the research problem, research question, and the purpose of the scholarly article(s).
2. Explanation of the key terms, central claim (thesis), and assumption/hypothesis of the article(s).
3. Illustration of the arguments addressed by the author to support his/her thesis.
4. Summary of the evidence the author offers to answer the research question (or explain the thesis).
5. Summary of the author’s conclusion.
In your analysis of the scholarly articles, you should:
1. Examine the logic of the author’s argument. Does it make sense to you? Why or why not?
2. Include your own voice by weighting the author’s arguments, evaluating the evidence cited by the
author, and raising critical questions.
3. Consider whether the author consider counter-evidence and counter-arguments? If he/she does, how
well does the scholarly article address the counter-evidence and counter-arguments?
4. If there is something that you believe is important that the author neglects, point it out and state what
you think its significance is.
In addition to understanding each article individually, you also need to consider the supplementary
readings with the main text collectively and think about the following questions:
1. How do the scholarly articles relate to one another and to the chapter in the main text (SCD)? Do
they address different aspects of an issue or formulate a problem discussed in the text chapter in
different ways? Explain how the articles relate to and “speak” to one another. Synthesize them if
you can, and if you cannot, explain what the barriers preventing such a synthesis are.
2. If the articles fall on both sides of an issue, consider where agreements and disagreements lie and
what each side’s strengths and weaknesses are.
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