Humanities Assignment

Write a 5-7 page paper with a minimum of 10 sources required (At least two sources must be from a scholarly journal) using MLA format. The target audience for this paper is your classmates.

Select one issue regarding the influence of music that was addressed in Chapter 14 or in the discussions in class. This time, you are encouraged to look at an issue or aspect that affects the public or a large group within the social/political structure. Look for what has changed as a result of the use of or response to music. Use Chapter 14 as your guide for writing in the Humanities.

Attack your research articles with the active reading strategies Kennedy & Kennedy recommend. Respond to the appropriate questions about genre, style, rhetorical context, and organization for this new adventure in intertextuality. We will analyze this assignment using the questions in the text, and refine the criteria for evaluation during in-class discussions.

Criteria for evaluation include:

• How effectively and insightfully the writer constructs the argument

• How appropriate the organization and development are to the purpose of the assignment

• How well examples and reasons are used to support ideas and claims of argument/insight

• How suitable the language level and usage are in conveying the writer's ideas

• How clear and concise the language is

• How effective sentence structure is

• The quality of the information supplied to support the ideas in the paper

• The quality of the argument and the quality of the logic in the reasoning

• Effective use of documentation format(MLA)