BIO 1020 W5 Assignment Final Paper
BIO 1020 W5 Assignment Final Paper
Paper Format:
1. Introduction (5-10% of your paper length)
In this section, you should introduce your analysis. You should provide a bit of background, identify your
research questions(s), and state your thesis for your interpretation.
This section should answer the reader’s question: what is this paper about and how is it organized?
2. Study description (15-20% of your paper length)
In this section, you should describe the artifact you are examining. In doing so, you should provide a
description of the rhetorical situation/background of the artifact. You can discuss why the artifact is worth
analyzing and/or talk about the consequences of the artifact (was it positively or negatively received?).
After discussing the artifact, you need to talk about your method. In explaining how you approached your
study, you should describe what theory of criticism you used as well as what steps you took to generate
your data. For example, if you looked at multiple texts, explain how you determined which texts to
examine.
This section should answer the reader’s question: what are you studying, why is this artifact worth
studying, and how did you study the artifact?
3. Analysis (40-60% of your paper length)
In this section, you should explain and discuss your research findings. Remember that you are making an
argument for your interpretation, so you should use evidence from the artifact to back up your analytical
claims. There is no standard way of organizing this section since it will depend heavily on the nature of
your artifact and study. However, you might try to organize this section according to your findings. For
example, if there are three main metaphors you found in your artifact, this section could be broken up into a
discussion of each metaphor. As you discuss your findings, you are generally doing two things: proving
that the finding exists and explaining what the finding means for your critique.
This section should answer the reader’s question: what are your findings and what do they mean for the
artifact?
4. Implications and conclusion (15-25% of your paper length)
In this final section, you should take a step back from the close reading of your texts and talk a bit about the
larger implications of your analysis. For example, if you looked at specific presidential apology, talk about
how your findings help explain other presidential apologies. If you looked at a particular ad campaign,
explain how your critique applies to other similar campaigns.
This section should answer the reader’s question: how do your findings apply to other artifacts.