Problem
Lustig, Steven R., John J.H. Biswakarma, Devyesh Rana, Susan H. Tilford, Weike Hu, Ming Su & Michael S. Rosenblatt. "Effectiveness of Common Fabrics to Block Aqueous Aerosols of Virus-like Nanoparticles." ACS Nano vol. 14, no. 6 (2020): pp. 7651-7658.
Analysis must address three significant points of analysis:
• What is the topic of the text? At times, this will be painfully obvious, even from the text's title; at others, you'll have to do some thinking about this.
• What is the author's argument about that topic? That is, what is the new thing that are we being asked to learn about this topic? What is the argument's thesis?
• What rhetorical methods does the author use to persuade us that this new knowledge is valid and true? This is the difficult part of the analysis, since it requires you to address not only what factual evidence is offered to support the argument, but what logical reasoning is offered to connect that evidence to the thesis/claim being supported, as well the format in which this is all presented. Key to this part of the analysis is the comparison and contrast between genres and fields. Types of persuasion or evidence offered might
Genre Analyses Instructions-English 3010-F22-Gillham 3 include empirical facts, logical facts, logical inferences based on those facts (logos), emotional appeals (pathos), appeals to expertise or good will toward the reader (ethos).
The typical form that this genre analysis essay takes is a first paragraph entailing discussion addressing the first two questions and a second paragraph discussing the third analytical point. If you're more comfortable forming this into one paragraph for each point of analysis, that's fine. Likewise, if your discussion of the rhetorical methods is too long for a single paragraph, you may wish to break it into two.
Requirements:
1) Length: A few paragraphs for each analysis
2) Compose in the provided text-entry box in the Canvas "assignment"
provided for each reading and arranged by in-class discussion dates in the "assignments" section.
3) Discuss all three analytical points, and nothing else (do not evaluate or summarize the text; stick to the genre analysis).