Project 2: Archive Analysis and Evaluation
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Worth: 20% of final grade Due Dates:
Pages: 4-6 (double-spaced, 12-pt TNR font) PR Workshop:
Readings: Ch. 13 & 15 (EAA) Final Draft:
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Now that you have had a chance to identify your chosen archive’s properties and rhetorical context, you can begin to work a bit more closely with it by completing an in-depth analysis and evaluation. This assignment, which will be similar to the analysis and evaluation essays you may have completed for Comp I, is intended to provide you with the opportunity to conduct strategic reading in order to critically analyze and thoughtfully evaluate an archive as a research source.
*******For this assignment, you will write a 4-6 page paper analyzing and evaluating your archive. On the basis of your analysis, you will draw conclusions about the archive and for the evaluation portion, you will need to develop clear criteria in order to form your argument. This analysis & evaluation will be directed by your response to one of the inquiry questions listed below:
• What values does this archive privilege or forward? How does it do this, and is this approach fair and reasonable?
• Is this archive an ethical representation of its material? If so, how? If not, in what ways could it be improved?
• The materials of the archive offer a snapshot of a particular person, event, time, or place. Each of the items in the archive offer a story or narrative. Which stories/which items are the most significant and why?
• Considering the voices present in the archive, how are they a fair and equitable representation of the larger social/cultural context? In what ways might there be avenues for improvement?
Note: You must also use a consistent citation system and include a proper works cited page or bibliography that will include at least 4 items: the text you evaluate and three documents from the archive itself.

Outcomes:
• Develop a thoughtful analytical argument in response to a selected inquiry question based on the sources provided by the archive
• Apply archival sources and secondary sources (as appropriate) in order to support the argument
• Draw a conclusion answering the inquiry question
• Support the conclusion appropriately using archival sources
• Identify and apply appropriate revision at both deep and surface levels

Grading Criteria:
• Analysis contains clear evidence of thoughtful response to the inquiry question
• Clearly-stated criteria forms the basis for the evaluation
• Evaluation is fair and reasonable and supported by evidence from the archive
• Writing style and tone is appropriate for the target audience, and follows grammatical conventions appropriate for this writing genre