Task this assignment, you will consider ideas presented in a text, make a focused summary of those ideas, craft a thesis statement outlining your response to an idea presented in the text and then support that response with evidence from the text.

From Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein's They Say/I Say

To approach this assignment you will read the text carefully and begin to consider some of the following questions surrounding a focused idea presented in the text:

• As reader, what was your response to that idea? Why?
• What of the author's appeals to emotions, or reason influence your response?
• Do you trust this author's knowledge and information? Why or why not?
• What of your own knowledge, biases, or pre-conceived notions of the issue influence your response?

In your draft, briefly summarize the reading and develop your paper in response to one idea presented by the author. You will draw quotations and examples from the text to support your response. Information and ideas that you use to support your ideas should be documented with appropriate in-text citations and a bibliograph