Talking Point 2
This assignment is designed to help you develop the skills that
Talking Point 2
This assignment is designed to help you develop the skills that you will employ in upcoming essays:
(1) Summarizing a text concisely and accurately, (2) identifying main ideas, central arguments, and key evidence of
source texts, (3) incorporating and citing quotations in MLA style, (4) understanding how authors employ rhetoric in
the form of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade their audience, (5) evaluating source texts and responding to them
critically, and (6) creating end text citations in MLA style for future Works Cited pages.You will use the essays:
“Facebook is a Doomsday Machine” by Adrienne LaFrance to work with