Your goal in this assignment is to properly summarize and analyze one of the two articles or chapters we looked at so far in tutorial. Summary involves the accurate description of the author’s overall main argument(s), and the correct identification of the author’s main use(s) of evidence and sources to justify their argument(s). In other words, you are relaying to your reader what another author has claimed by rendering down their main points and using paraphrasing skills. Analysis is different. There are many ways to “analyze” an article or chapter that was written by a historian. One way to think about analysis is that it is similar to “evaluation”. That is, you are to evaluate, assess and interpret the argument, its supporting evidence, and its historical significance. Keep in mind however that analysis is more than just saying that the argument was “good” or “bad,” or that you “agreed”

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