Extra Credit

During this helpful session, I learned how to critically analyze a secondary source. The source used was "Washington University: Real and hyperrreal Campus architecture favors faux over the original," by David Bonetti. Teachers running this session gave us a handout that has five aspects regarding analyzing the secondary source. They were "the author," "the rhetorical situation," "the claims," the evidence," and "the assumptions." Carefully applying these five aspects to the particular secondary source used, I gained an insight into how to more effectively and critically analyze the secondary source. We analyzed every aspect given in a handout regarding this article that criticizes the hyperreality of building of the WashU campus. It was an interesting session that was very helpful in directing me, although my secondary source is not an article like this one.