Article Critique

Choose one article from the assigned scholarly readings and write a critique of its effectiveness in presenting an argument and supporting that argument with evidence.
The assignment is intended to make students more aware of how arguments are constructed and supported with evidence, to see a piece of scholarly writing in terms of its argumentative structure first, and its content second. Your thesis should be a claim about the argument of the article, and the strengths and weaknesses of its supporting evidence, which you support with evidence from the article.
You are welcome to make content and style criticisms, but the grading will primarily reflect your ability to engage with the argument and evidence, and to make a convincing claim of your own (i.e. a thesis) about those aspects of the article.
The Article Critique should be roughly 3 double-spaced pages (about 750 words) in length. Use Times New Roman or Arial or similar common fonts.
As Canadian Studies is an interdisciplinary program, there is no established referencing style. Students may use any referencing style they prefer, as long as their references are clear and consistent. If students don’t have a preference, Chicago is a good one to learn. There is a helpful introduction to Chicago at https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

Here is a list of articles you can choose from: Choose one

  • Ian Mosby, “‘That Won Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG, and the Making of American Food, 1968-1980,”
  • Cheryl Thompson, ““I’se in Town, Honey”: Reading Aunt Jemima Advertising in Canadian Print Media,”
  • Marlene Epp “Eating Across Borders: Reading Immigrant Cookbooks”
  • Matthew J. Bellamy “The Making of Labatt ‘Blue’: The Quest for a National Lager Brand, 1959–1971”
  • Adam Gaudry “The Métis-ization of Canada: The Process of Claiming Louis Riel, Métissage, and the Métis People as Canada’s Mythical Origin”
  • Shannon Bower “‘Practical Results:’ The Riel Statue Controversy at the Manitoba Legislative Building”
  • Max Hamon “Contesting Civilization: Louis Riel’s Defence of Culture at the College de Montreal”
  • Jordan Bolay “The Politics of Representation in Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography”
  • Sylvia Van Kirk, “The Role of Native Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada,”
  • Joan Sangster, “‘We No Longer Respect the Law:’ The Tilco Strike, Labour Injunctions, and the State,”
  • Leslie Allan Dawn, “Canadian Art in England”
  • Paul H. Walton “The Group of Seven and Northern Development”
  • Scott Watson “Race, Wilderness, Territory, and the Origins of Modern Canadian Landscape Painting”
  • Peter Hodgins and Peter Thompson, “Taking the Romance out of Extraction: Contemporary Canadian Artists and the Subversion of the Romantic/Extractive Gaze”
  • Catherine Gidney “Under the President’s Gaze: Sexuality and Morality at a Canadian University During the Second World War”
  • Ian Milligan, “Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan”
  • Marcel Martel, ‘Riot’ at Sir George Williams: Giving Meaning to Student Dissent”
  • Kristi A Allain “Kid Crosby or Golden Boy: Sidney Crosby, Canadian national identity, and the policing of hockey masculinity”
  • Nathan Kalman-Lamb, “Whiteness and Hockey in Canada: Lessons from Semi-Structured Interviews with Retired Professional Players,”
  • Scott D. Watson “Everyday nationalism and international hockey: contesting Canadian national identity”

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