First Paragraph (250 or more)
Introduce the article by full title and the date it was originally published so that your uninformed readers know which text you are writing about! Introduce the author as a writer: who is she?
Describe your sense of the authors audience (note: the audience cannot be everyone or all peopleit has to be more specific than that!). To whom is the author speaking, primarily?
Describe the rhetorical context or larger, background situation in response to which the author has written the article: what is the situation (or the situations plural) that made the authors article necessary? What is the bigger picture in which the author wrote her article? Summarize for an uninformed audience the authors overall purpose in the article: what is the authors purpose, and what is the article about? Use at least two direct quotations from the article to support your summary. State your own thesis clearly. One format that works well is to say Analysis paragraph(s) 500 words
unpack what Jordan is saying about language and EXPLAIN WHY THAT MATTERS using direct quotations as evidence. Use one, two, or three direct quotations from the article to support your analysis in EACH analysis paragraph Conclusion
Write a paragraph in which you remind your readers of the upshot of your analysis of Jordans article.