ENGL 1102 Lecture 3: STEAM Handout-3
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Reading for the purpose of analysis is not like reading a novel. It requires that you, the reader, develop a set of tools that allow you to regard texts as active reader even as a skeptic rather than as a consumer. Every good article or term paper, has one. A thesis is the main argument or explanation of a work of history. Each article should have a controlling argument, but there may be several sub-arguments in support of the thesis. If there are, identify them, too: remember. even though the facts an author discovers during research must guide the thesis, scholars may interpret the same facts in somewhat different ways. Primary sources: what kinds of primary sources does the author use to make his or her case? (read the footnotes!) If the author uses many kinds of primary sources, characterize them as categories of documents.
