historiographic literature review

Choose one of the three thematic clusters below (see The Writing Process), each of which contains a set of scholarly secondary sources on animal histories of the Americas. Read the key text, then survey the remaining sources in the cluster. Select two sources to evaluate in more depth along with the key text, identifying each scholar’s central arguments, disciplinary perspective, rhetorical strategy, and use of evidence from primary and secondary sources. Then, in essay form, conduct a historiographic literature review that assesses how these sources fit together. Articulate one shared subject of inquiry among the three scholars. Elaborate how the scholars advance their own arguments in the debate by citing specific evidence from their texts to support your assertions. How might you represent and join this scholarly conversation?
What is the writer’s rhetorical strategy, that is, how does she attempt to persuade you of her position? How does she establish her credibility (ethos)? What appeals does she make to logic (logos)? Does any part of her argument hinge on an emotional appeal (pathos)? What types of evidence does she mobilize to support her claims? What kinds of primary sources (e.g., manuscripts, recordings, ethnographic accounts, images, maps, narratives, objects, etc.) does the writer examine? What other scholars does she cite and what is her posture or attitude towards those secondary sources? What does the evidence help the writer to prove and what impact might the findings have had on the shape of other research into these same sources?
Your final paper must engage with at least 3 secondary sources, should be about 5–6 pages in length, and will be worth 35% of your writing grade.
Link to full instructions: http://core.humanities.uci.edu/index.php/winter/winter-essay-assignment-3/

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