Critical Reading: Organ Donations

This week, following the model of critical reading I provided in Kidney Season on Death Row. I’ll ask you to closely examine the claims made, inferences made, and conclusions drawn by the author of one of the Organ Donation sources.

Time stamps would be welcome if you’re analyzing a video. Direct quotations and any help you can offer to guide me to the original claims would be appreciated if you’re analyzing a written source.

Your personal opinion on the subject of organ donation may be fun to know (tell me anytime!) but irrelevant to this exercise. Instead, evaluate the quality of the claims—their technique, their relevance, their sufficiency, their logic, their reasonableness.

ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICS

• A critical reading of an Organ Donation source.
• If necessary, re-read Facts, Inferences, Judgments: Coins with Two Heads.
• There you’ll also find links to the GOOD video and other source materials.
• Write a “critical reading” based on the model I provided in Kidney Season on Death Row.
• Choose any of the organ donor sources from the sidebar as your material to critically read.
• The assignment is intended to be brief enough to give in class, but snow days have deprived us of class time, so give yourself a one-hour time limit to do the assignment.
• Title your post Critical Reading—Author Name.
• Publish your definition essay in the A07: Critical Reading category.

GRADE DETAILS

• DUE NOON TUE MAR 04, 2013
• Rhetorical Writing grade category (15%)