comparing two articles about veganism

comparing two articles about veganism

Once you’ve chosen your texts, your first task will be to analyze their claims and arguments of each (as discussed in Chapter 3). What sorts of claims and evidence do they provide in support of their arguments? Next, you should compare your texts directly—where might their arguments/claims/support be similar, and where do they diverge? Once you’ve analyzed the arguments individually and compared them together, give some thought to how you might account for those similarities and differences in the texts. What about their respective rhetorical situations (audience, purpose, context, etc.) helps to explain what you observed about their arguments and how they make them. In short, your goal here is to put these texts in conversation with each other, focusing not just on what they might say to each other, but how and why they say it the way they do. As a way to end the essay, think about how putting these texts in conversation adds to your understanding of the complexity of the topic being discussed. For instance, beyond just noting whether the articles seem to agree or disagree with each other, what might we discover about the multiple values or interests involved in the discussion? How might different kinds of claims/arguments be in play (claims of fact, value, and policy) even when texts seem to agree? In that regard, it’s ok if the essay doesn’t come to any clear conclusions about your own take on the topic—we’re practicing, as Chapter 1 says, “valuing complexity”!