Produce a draft of an essay that explains Chapter 2 of Understanding Comics to academic readers who have no knowledge of their work, and that points out to those readers what issues and critical questions the text raises.
Since your readers are academics, they expect your essay to summarize Chapter 2 of Understanding Comics in academic ways, which includes the following:
Introducing the source text properly, including the full name of the author and the title of her/his/their work
Integrating and citing direct quotes and paraphrases according to MLA convention
Providing information about the sources background, rhetorical situation, and a breakdown of her/his/their argument
Identify issues or questions that the text raises that merit further research (questions that elicit complex, debatable answers and are suitable for academic inquiry)
identify a central issue that is raised by the text and that is of interest to you. Then, think about how you might structure your essay to summarize the course text and pose questions for further research into the central issue you identified.
The end result should be a summary and analysis of this Chapter 2 of Understanding Comics that demonstrates your ability to interpret and critically engage texts in sophisticated and academically-acceptable ways, and to generate critical questions that invite further inquiry into issues that the text raises.
