1. choose a specific field of refugee resettlement issue and write a thesis, mental health and cultural related preferred. must answer all the questions below.
2. Description. Briefly summarize the source’s argument and state its thesis. Make sure youare precise in your description: What, specifically, are the parameters of the argument? Inwhat scholarly conversation (the ‘they say’) is it intervening? What does the source say is the importance or significance of its claims? What kinds of evidence does the source use to make this argument?
3. Critical Analysis. Spend the bulk of your two pages critically analyzing your source. What are its strengths and weaknesses? Is the argument convincing, why or why not? Did the source leave out something that you think is crucial to the topic it covered? Was thesource’s discussion of previous scholarship clear, thorough, and convincing? What waseffective or ineffective about the structure the author deployed?
4. Relevance. Articulate how you think this source will be relevant to your own research paper(the ‘I say’). What aspect of your topic does this help clarify? Or, do you foresee arguing against the perspective put forward in this secondary source in your own paper? If the source changed your mind about something or took you down another path, you can state that too.
5. two pages. double space. MLA citation