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“Youth Sports”
by Leah
Eichenbaum
Essay Thesis and Organization
List
the issues raised in the story of the author’s brother’s team. How do the
author’s proposed solutions address these issues?
What
is the impact of starting the essay with a review of an infamous story,
then with statistics, both before stating the thesis?
Describe
how the author inserts herself into the essay. Point out some passage throughout the essay in which she refers to herself. How would the essay
be different without the extensive personal testimony?
Describe
how the author mixes the outside sources with the story of her brother’s
team and with what she had witnessed?
In a
five or six paragraph sequence from deep in the essay, explain the
paragraph order and chart the transitions between paragraphs.
Sources
What
does the author write for the annotations of the sources?
Describe
the mix of sources. Place the sources into categories: books, magazine
articles, studies from journals.
On
page 46, the first full paragraph has a quotation that includes a bracket.
The last full paragraph on the page has a quotation that includes a
parenthesis. Why does the author use a bracket in one case and parenthesis
in the other?
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