Grady McWhiney’s and Perry Jamieson’s Attack and Die
• First, each student must concisely and accurately explain the book’s central argument. (Since Wright’s book is a memoir, there will not be an argument as such, but a central theme. Identify the central theme.) State the thesis clearly in the first paragraph.
• Second, each student must summarize the evidence or examples utilized by the author.
• Third, each student must offer an analytical critique of the book. (This means critiquing the scholarship, not the author’s writing style).
• Fourth, students must cite their sources, and to do this, they must use footnotes or endnotes. (For assistance in the proper format, see http://press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html. Or, more simply, footnotes should follow these examples.
