Assignment -

Reading and Interpreting: Author Spotlight on James Baldwin

This assignment builds on your reading in Literature, and specifically focuses on the piece "Race and the African American Writer" by James Baldwin.

Write a full 1-page (250 word minimum organized into a minimum of three paragraphs) literary response to your reading of "Race and the African American Writer." In your response, focus on how Baldwin reaches out to the audience using logos, pathos, and ethos (your Wk 1 Online Presentation on "Building a Successful Essay" will help you here). Also, consider the importance of your role as a reader for Baldwin's piece to be successful. Think about what is involved in the process of reading a piece of literature. How do ideas, feelings, and descriptions get from Baldwin's heart and mind to your heart and mind? How are you, as the reader, essential for the communication process of writing to be complete?

Use specific examples, words, and phrases from Baldwin's piece to back up your argument with textual evidence. Remember to use a signal phrase and to put quotation marks around borrowed words and phrases. You should not use outside resources to complete this assignment, but rather only textual evidence from the course textbook and your own ideas. You will need to include a parenthetical annotation with page number to round out the in-text citation in APA style for all quotations used from the textbook.