A06: Critical Reading

Critical Reading: Organ Donations

This week, following the model of critical reading I provided in Kidney Season on Death Row. I’ll ask you to closely examine the claims made, inferences made, and conclusions drawn by the author of one of the Organ Donation sources.

Time stamps would be welcome if you’re analyzing a video. Direct quotations and any help you can offer to guide me to the original claims would be appreciated if you’re analyzing a written source.

Your personal opinion on the subject of organ donation may be fun to know (tell me anytime!) but irrelevant to this exercise. Instead, evaluate the quality of the claims—their technique, their relevance, their sufficiency, their logic, their reasonableness.

If you’re unclear what I’m looking for, please read my feedback to the early posts by Brent Adkins and Nicole Clark (for which I am very grateful). Without the chance to comment on their early posts, I wouldn’t have this chance to help you before you post your first drafts.

ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICS

• A critical reading of an Organ Donation source.
• If necessary, re-read Facts, Inferences, Judgments: Coins with Two Heads.
• There you’ll also find links to the GOOD video and other source materials.
• Write a “critical reading” based on the model I provided in Kidney Season on Death Row.
• Choose any of the organ donor sources as your material to critically read.
• These include Don’t Give Your Heart Away, China to Stop Harvesting Inmate Organs, Oli Lewington’s Video, or any of the other videos available at the 4thought.tv site.
• This was designed as a brief in-class exercise, so give yourself a one-hour time limit.
• Title your post Critical Reading—Author Name.
• Publish your definition essay in the A06: Critical Reading category.

GRADE DETAILS

• DUE TUE FEB 26, 2013 in class.
• Rhetorical Writing grade category (15%)