Identify if author has a bias and explain with examples

Feel free to employ your artistic freedom in your piece, and I do not grade based on my personal beliefs and values. I grade the essay based on the quality of the analysis, the supporting evidence/examples, grammar, structure, organization, and clarity. Length is not a factor, as an essay is only as long as it needs to be. That being said, an essay is not done until it has completed its purpose; in this case using two types of analyses to develop further understanding.

Below you will find some tools of analysis and some websites. Feel free to branch out as long as your essays are collegial, credible, professional, and analytical.

Tools of Analysis

Compare and contrast (two or three sections of a piece)

Compare and contrast (with outside information/experts such as academic experts, politicians, textbooks, and other professional sources)

Apply to something you know (pop culture, other text, experience, historical examples, other material)

Reinterpret (put the author’s ideas into your own words, communicate their point in a new way)

Relevance (does the author’s ideas apply to something going on today?)

Argue for (provide several examples why the author is correct)

Argue against (provide at least one example why the author is incorrect)

Proscribe (criticize the author or the piece)

Prescribe a solution to a problem the author raises, or propose a better solution than the author gives

Identify if author has a bias and explain with examples