write a multi-paragraph essay in which you analyze and evaluate Tompkins’s “Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History.”
Do each of the following in your essay:
• summarize the author's argument (I suggest you use an Academic Meaty Sentence to introduce it), including the major claim, intended audience, exigence, context (review the Nunnery lecture for context), and any assumption/s she makes;
• include a thesis statement that gives your position on how effective Tompkins’ argument is for her intended audience;
• analyze and evaluate the text to support your thesis by choosing TWO strategies Tompkins employs to persuade her intended audience to accept her major claim (you may if you like, use the strategy you posted in the discussion forum). Be sure to differentiate between strategies and appeals by addressing how the strategies appeal to reason, credibility, and/or emotions, and support your analysis with direct quotation/s, paraphrase/s, and/or example/s from Tompkins's text. Use MLA in-text citations for page numbers not paragraphs, for example: Tompkins explains early on that "[t]his essay enacts a particular instance of the challenge post-structuralism poses to the study of history" (102).
• evaluate the overall effectiveness of Tompkins’s argument for her intended audience;
• for your conclusion, consider how Tompkins's argument might be relevant, perhaps applicable or helpful, to a current discourse related to truth in American society.
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