Guided Analysis: “The Age of the Essay”

Using the Makerspace

Be sure you’ve read Paul Graham’s “The Age of the Essay” and the interstitial lecture below:

The Age of the Essay, Updated

Then you will be asked to complete a unique copy of this form:

That is a copy accessible to all. You will be given one through Google Classroom specific to your class. Do not complete the above form for assessment.

This assignment will guide you through some of the later paragraphs of the essay, instructing you to analyze, unpack, and respond to specific quotations and ideas.

You can use the following general feedback to help you:

That general feedback is not a set of correct responses that can be copied; it is a guide to understanding that requires you to put in additional work. It is one tool among many.

Note that one of the questions you must answer directs you to read an interstitial post that is posted alongside your syllabus and introduction to the course:

This, too, is one tool among many. Proceed slowly and deliberately — assiduously, in other words — and ask questions as you go.

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