ENG 112 Northern Virginia Community College Stories About My Brother Article Analysis Overview: Over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing the qualities

ENG 112 Northern Virginia Community College Stories About My Brother Article Analysis Overview: Over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing the qualities of good writing/storytelling and trying to identify them in a variety of narrative essays from The Art of Fact. Even the most recent of those essays, though, is now decades old. For this assignment, you’ll choose a modern article from Longform’s “Best of 2019” list*: https://longform.org/lists/best-of-2019 (Links to an external site.)

*You can choose from the Top 10, or from the categories listed at the bottom of the page.

Assignment: Once you’ve chosen your article and read it a number of times, you’ll explain in at least 1200 words why the editors at Longform consider it such a good piece of writing. Your job, in other words, is to discuss the article’s language, imagery, detail, structure, argumentation, and/or anything else that makes it enlightening and engaging for readers today. Above all, you’ll need to explain what the article is supposed to do, and how the author does it effectively. To help support your argument, you’ll need to draw on relevant precepts laid out in The Sense of Style.

Remember, your essay should be comprehensible even to someone who hasn’t read the Longform article you’re evaluating.

Criteria: Your essay should—

Establish a thoughtful thesis statement about the quality of your chosen Longform article
Support that thesis with specific details and passages from both the article itself and The Sense of Style
Integrate quotations and paraphrases effectively, including both in-text citations and a Works Cited page
Consist of unified and coherent paragraphs, each with a clear central idea
Include an effective introduction, conclusion, and title
Be largely free of major grammatical and usage errors

Value: 75 points

Content (50 points)
Usage (25 points)

Format: 12 pt. font, double-spaced, standard margins