Project Summary: Collection of Summaries, Audience Analyses, and Toulmin Analyses Due Date Thursday, February 4, 2016 Definition of the Assignment: This assignment is not a traditional paper. In the Collection of Summaries, Audience Analyses, and Toulmin Analyses, you will be thoroughly analyzing three of the sources that you have found in your popular culture research and may use in your Informational Research Paper (Paper 2) and Argumentative Research Paper (Paper 3). NOTE: The three sources which you use in this paper MUST BE ARGUMENTATIVE. Look for argumentative articles in editorials and commentaries. Objectives for this Assignment: Reading 1. Analyze texts (written, oral, and visual) using the concepts of the rhetorical triangle and Toulmin argumentation 2. Locate source material using online and database search logic Writing 1. Evaluate, analyze and synthesize others ideas so as to develop and support student writers argument and purposes 2. Paraphrase, summarize, and quote source material with increased accuracy and sophistication 3. Provide correct attribution (in-text and reference page) for a variety of source materials (scholarly, popular, on-ground, and on-line) using APA citation format Process of Assembling the Paper Step 1: Choose three argumentative articles related to your approved proposal topic. Print, copy and paste, or photocopy these articles for inclusion in your paper. Step 2: Summarize each of the three articles: 1. Include the title, the author, and the thesis in the first sentence of the summary. 2. The rest of the summary should include only the major details of the article. Step 3: Give a one-sentence identification of the audience (including both type and characteristics of the audience) for the three articles. Step 4: Perform a Toulmin analysis on the three articles. 1. Identify the thesis: Claim + Stated Reason 2. Identify the Grounds 3. Identify the Conditions of Rebuttal 4. Identify the Warrant 5. Identify the Backing Step 5: Organize your paper. 1. Include a title page using APA standards. 2. Include the first photocopied article (sort the articles in alphabetical order according to the first word of the bibliographic citation). 3. At the top of the next page, include an APA citation for the first article. Then, add your summary, audience analysis, and Toulmin analysis of the first article. 4. Include the second article (sort the articles in alphabetical order according to the first word of the bibliographic citation). 5. At the top of the next page, include an APA citation for the second article. Then, add your summary, audience analysis, and Toulmin analysis of the second article. 6. Include the third article (sort the articles in alphabetical order according to the first word of the bibliographic citation). 7. At the top of the next page, include an APA citation for the third article. Then, add your summary, audience analysis, and Toulmin analysis of the third article. Note: Do not include a list of references. Evaluation of this Assignment The following are the criteria that I will use to grade the Collection of Summaries, Audience Analyses, and Toulmin Analyses. I will rate each of these criteria on a 1 to 20 scale (1 being poor and 20 being excellent). 1. The student collected three argumentative articles, which apply to his/her research topic, from a text or from the Internet andcompleted a summary, audience analysis, Toulmin analysis, and a citation for the three articles. 2. The first sentence of each summary is an accurate restatement of the thesis statement, including the claim and stated reason, and includes the authors name and the article title. 3. Each summary includes the main supports for the thesis statement. 4. Each audience analysis includes an accurate statement of the authors intended audience. 5. Each Toulmin analysis contains an accurate identification of the claim, the stated reason, the warrant, the major grounds, and any major conditions of rebuttal.