https://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/dont-bring-extinct-creatures-back-life
Please use the above website/page for this critical summary. There is more info on this page in links you can use too. Make sure you also include a Works Cited page too please. If you have question feel free to send me a message.
Please follow the instructions carefully and add extra points and/or information. This instructor is very particular about following directions.
Once you have selected a debater’s argument to summarize and analyze, you should review Barnet, et al, pages 67-76, for instructions on how to write a critical summary. You will find an explanation–and a very helpful visual guide (69)–of critical summary steps on pages 67-70, and a fuller example on page 75.
And, new this time around (Critical Summary #2), I’d like to see more analysis of the argument and its parts. You can find lots of helpful instruction on argument analysis in Chapter 5 of your Barnet textbook (177-198). And, please take a careful look at this old sample of a Critical Summary and Analysis essay.
As mentioned in the textbook, your critical summary should include a concise summary of the article’s argument. This should involve introducing, explaining, and exemplifying the argument.
Your explaining and exemplifying should briefly give the argument’s major claim (thesis), minor supporting claims (reasons), notable pieces of evidence, and other relevant elements of the argument.
The critical summary should also analyze, respond, and evaluate the argument. In other words, it should problematize and extend the argument, including some of the following:
Write an evaluation of how key terms and language are used (definitions stipulated? ambiguous?),
identification and evaluation of appeals used (ethos, pathos, logos),
identification and evaluation of unstated assumptions,
identification and evaluation of important evidence or omitted evidence,
identification and evaluation of potential fallacies.
These may also be partially treated in the explaining and exemplifying steps of the critical summary.
Writing Guidelines
You need to write a thesis statement for your critical summary. Your thesis should state, in one sentence, whether or not (or to what extent) the author’s argument is convincing or effective, and why or why not. Your thesis should sum up your review and analysis, your critical summary of the argument.
Your critical summary should support your thesis statement. Your critical summary and analysis should be unified and organic (according to Merriam-Webster, “having systematic coordination of parts” ).
Your critical summary should be concise, between 350 and 450 words. Get right to the point; leave out unnecessary or unimportant material.
Please list an MLA Works Cited entry for your article at the end of the critical summary. This is not included in the word count.
Use MLA format, 12 point Times New Roman font, double spacing throughout, etc. These formatting guidelines apply for all essays and critical summaries in this course.
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