English Composition

Running head: ENGLISH COMPOSITION 1
English Composition
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ENGLISH COMPOSITION 2
English Composition
1. Re-read your selected article and take careful notes, using analysis techniques
described in Module Two as guidance. For a review of these techniques, please click
here. Then, revisit your original interpretation of the author's goal and re-state the
claim to be addressed in your analysis essay. Has the author's goal changed with this
analytical reading of the text? If so, how? If not, why not?
Answer: The main goal of Andrew Braksma’s in his work is to offer the youth of today,
some useful knowledge regarding how working in the corporate world seems like with no
opportunity of education. The author tries to reflect on the difference between college life and
the blue-collar jobs to bring out the importance of being educated to some higher level.
Braksma’s key perspective involves the fact that today’s young generation fail to appreciate or
understand the importance of having higher education or how fortunate one is when given an
opportunity of chance to attend a university or college of choice (Braaksma, 2010). In summary,
the article has identified three primary facts such as higher education importance, the lack of
appreciation by the young generation when they have the luck of having an opportunity for
higher education and lastly, the fact that the higher education is able to further a person’s chance
of having a better future or experiencing one that is more secure. The author does not change his
goal anywhere in the course the reason being that his factory experience teaches him the need to
be educated, how one can lose job easily and how to work hard (Braaksma, 2010). This teaches
him how to rip big out of the college years and this makes him spend most of his finances on
beer and books.
2. Have you identified new key points that the author uses to try to achieve his or her
goal in the selected article? If so, include them here. If not, restate the key points

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you established in your Writing Notes assignment and explain why the key points
from your Writing Notes have remained the same, even after conducting an active
reading of the article.
Answer: The main topic that seems to sum up the article contents include;
"Sweating away the summers, working in the factory is a happier experience to hitting books”
“Life as a factory worker has taught me that the future might have been worse had I not got in
school”
“The life experiences are deeply rooted in my mind even when I get back to school and have to
spend my hard earned money on beer and books’’
“I decided to do the worker instead of bus tables or folding sweatshirts at the gap”
3. Re-state the audience who will be reading your essay. What potential challenges will
you have supporting your argument with this demographic?
Answer: my audience for the essay includes the fresh students who have just joined or
are about to join college of the university. The potential challenges with this group are that they
feel energetic as if they own the world. They are not ready to listen to their elders but want to
explore life by all means, have fun and party around the campus. They are ignorant about what
later life holds for them.
4. Your goal is the end result that you wish to achieve in writing the critical analysis
essay. What goal do you hope to accomplish with this essay? For example, you may
disagree with the author and demonstrate why they are incorrect, or you may agree
but want to further substantiate their claim.
Answer: My goal that I hold for the essay involves supporting the claim of the author
further. This involves showing the audience that going to college is not a mere coincidence but is