Reading Nonfiction: Research GRASP
Due Date: February 1, 2012_______________
Goal: Your goal is to present multiple points of view on a single topic and to analyze each source for point of view, purpose, accuracy and quality of evidence.
Role: You are an advance researcher for the eighth grade writing nonfiction project.
Audience: Eighth graders at Northeast Middle School
Situation: In our next unit, we will focus on writing nonfiction. That will require you to have quality and balanced resources. During our current unit, you will be creating a bank of quality and balanced resources for you or your classmates to use.
Product: You will create a website or blog to present at least three (3) reliable sources that you have analyzed for purpose, viewpoint and quality of evidence. Your website or blog should display a range of viewpoints that accurately display multiple viewpoints on the issue.
Requirements:
1. Present at least three (3) sources
2. Use at least one scholarly source
3. Write an overview of your sources
4. Presentation is clean and free of distracting errors (see writing rubric)
Analysis questions:
What is the author’s purpose for the source and how do you know? (Include bias or slant in your response.)
What is the author’s viewpoint and how do you know?
How does the author present conflicting evidence?
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