Full Sail University ENC1102: English Composition II Your Name (worth 4 points): Sandra Sizemore (You must also put your name on the file itself—worth 4 points) Assignment: Argument Analysis Worksheet Directions First, read the assignment directions, which are separate from this worksheet. Next, complete this worksheet by typing each answer underneath it. When you are finished, please proofread your paper to make sure the questions are still numbered correctly. Fix them if they are not, then upload the completed document. 1. What is the title of the article? Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. 2. Paste a link to the article below. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29franzen.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 3. Who is the author of the article? The article you choose must have an author, with both a first and last name or at least a first initial. JONATHAN FRANZEN 4. Find information about the author. It is important that the author of the article be a credible, reliable source, so make sure in your answer to provide evidence of this. · You can usually find information about an author at the end of the article. · If you can’t find it in the publication, do an Internet search using the author’s name and see what you can find. If the author has a common name, put “writer” or “journalist” after their name to narrow the search. · Provide an APA-formatted references page citation for the source where you found information about the author. The formatting should follow the examples on this page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ Let’s use this article as an example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/retro-wife-opt-out_b_2902315.html The citation for that in the references list would be: Belkin, L. (2013, March 19). The retro wife opts out: What has changed, and what still needs to. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/retro-wife-opt-out_b_2902315.html Note that the entry has a hanging indent. If you aren’t sure how to do this, view the video in References about formatting an APA paper. Also, the article title is not italicized. It is capitalized like a sentence: The first word, proper nouns, and the word after a colon should be capitalized. Jonathan Franzen is an American writer, essayist as well as a columnist with various publications including The New York Times. Some of his novels include The Twenty-seventh City, How to Be Alone, The Corrections, and his latest novel, Freedom. Franzen writes about everything and anything under the sun, offering is opinions on social networking, and the way it is changing the world, the break down of Europe, as well as the deteriorating status of American society. Jonathan Franzen has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, won the National Book Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and made the cover of Time magazine hailed as a Great American Novelist. References Flanagan, M. (n.d). Jonathan Franzen. Contemporary Lite.

1. Full Sail University
ENC1102: English Composition II
Your Name (worth 4 points): Sandra Sizemore
(You must also put your name on the file itself—worth 4 points)
Assignment: Argument Analysis Worksheet
Directions
First, read the assignment directions, which are separate from
this worksheet.
Next, complete this worksheet by typing each answer
underneath it. When you are finished, please proofread your
paper to make sure the questions are still numbered correctly.
Fix them if they are not, then upload the completed document.
1. What is the title of the article?
Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
2. Paste a link to the article below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29franzen.html?pa
gewanted=all&_r=0
3. Who is the author of the article? The article you choose must
have an author, with both a first and last name or at least a first
initial.

2. JONATHAN FRANZEN
4. Find information about the author. It is important that the
author of the article be a credible, reliable source, so make sure
in your answer to provide evidence of this.
· You can usually find information about an author at the end of
the article.
· If you can’t find it in the publication, do an Internet search
using the author’s name and see what you can find. If the author
has a common name, put “writer” or “journalist” after their
name to narrow the search.
· Provide an APA-formatted references page citation for the
source where you found information about the author. The
formatting should follow the examples on this page:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ Let’s use
this article as an example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-
belkin/retro-wife-opt-out_b_2902315.html
The citation for that in the references list would be:
Belkin, L. (2013, March 19). The retro wife opts out: What has
changed, and what still needs to. Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/retro-wife-opt-
out_b_2902315.html
Note that the entry has a hanging indent. If you aren’t sure how
to do this, view the video in References about formatting an
APA paper. Also, the article title is not italicized. It is
capitalized like a sentence: The first word, proper nouns, and
the word after a colon should be capitalized.
Jonathan Franzen is an American writer, essayist as well as a
columnist with various publications including The New York
Times. Some of his novels include The Twenty-seventh City,
How to Be Alone, The Corrections, and his latest novel,
Freedom.

3. Franzen writes about everything and anything under the sun,
offering is opinions on social networking, and the way it is
changing the world, the break down of Europe, as well as the
deteriorating status of American society.
Jonathan Franzen has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction, won the National Book Award, James Tait Black
Memorial Prize and made the cover of Time magazine hailed as
a Great American Novelist.
References
Flanagan, M. (n.d). Jonathan Franzen. Contemporary
Literature. Retrieved from
http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/authors/p/franzen.htm
Jonathan Franzen Biography. (2010).Oprah Books Club.
Retrieved from
http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Jonathan-Franzens-
Biography-Oprahs-Book-Club
Manzoor, S., Healey, A., & Tait, M. (2010). Jonathan
Franzen: America is almost a rogue state. The
Guardian (London). Retrieved from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/oct/25/jonathan-
franzen-freedom
5. Below, write an APA-formatted citation for the article you
are writing about (the argument). This citation should appear as
it would in the references list—this should not be a
parenthetical in-text citation. The example in question 4 and at
the link in question 4 should help you with this.
Franzen, J. (2011, May 28). Liking Is for Cowards. Go for
What Hurts. The New York Times. Retrieved from
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29franzen.html?pa

4. gewanted=all&_r=0
6. What argument is the writer presenting? Find the statement
where the author states the argument and copy it here. Put an
APA-formatted in-text parenthetical citation after the statement,
and put the statement inside quotation marks. An example of
how the citation should look is (Marks, 2013). Period goes after
the closing parenthesis, not before it.
The argument put forward in the article, is that technology is
slowly trying to override the natural world, with all
imperfections therein, and trying to create a perfect relationship
with consumers in a bid to keep them hooked up to new
technology and innovations.
Franzen (2011) argues “technology has become extremely adept
at creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an
erotic relationship.”
He also adds
“To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the
telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to
our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable
hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to
our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self”
(Franzen, 2011).
7. What situation prompted the author to write this article? If

5. you need to research to find information, provide APA-
formatted citations for that research.
The author was prompted to write this article from personal
reflection when he was young. He points out that as a young
man he liked the environment, but did not love it, and this made
him angry and sad. However, when he found the love for birds,
he discovered that the anger and despair he felt for the
destruction of the environment waned when he got involved in
his passion; birds and birdlife conservation.
So, this article is based on the paradox that exists between
liking, and loving, and how the two are not only different but
also tie into each other when looked at from a technological
perspective.
8. Find at least two supporting statements the author uses to
defend his/her argument and copy them here. Add an APA-
formatted parenthetical in-text citation after each statement.
The author argues that technology to advance its cause, create a
world of perfection for its consumers, it has to compete with
love, and hence its substitution with like. He states
“Liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for
loving” (Franzen, 2011).
In order for this to be achieved, technology takes on a likable
approach from the design to the manner in which they enable
interaction.
“Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered
through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own
movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the
mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery” (Franzen,
2011).

6. 9. Provide at least two reasons, with explanations for those
reasons, why you disagree with the argument presented in the
article.
I disagree with the arguments presented in the article,
because although technology has substituted close or face to
face communication, it has compensated this with frequent and
instantaneous communication. For instance, a couple apart from
each other, via social sites such as Facebook can communicate
with each other a lot and keep abreast of each other affairs. If
the technology was not there, only a face to face meeting or
frequent phone calls would equal what Facebook does.
Therefore, the ‘quality’ of a face to face meeting is substituted
today by the ability to chat live, share photos and even videos
via social sites and media. So, Facebook does not necessarily
erode the value of love in man by promoting connectivity; in
fact, the world of liking in social media enhances and embraces
humanity by assuming and giving users of social media the
chance to love as much humanity as possible by the simple click
of a button and ‘liking’ a friend, relative, colleague or a total
stranger.
Finally, I disagree with the arguments put forward by the
author that technology takes on narcissistic tendencies. Franzen
(2011) states “They are, however, great allies and enablers of
narcissism. Alongside their built-in eagerness to be liked is a
built-in eagerness to reflect well on us“. While this is a partial
truth, in that technological devices take on a likable personality
in order to appeal to users; the real truth is that technology is
designed to ease life’s pressures, increase organization, better
communication, and generally make life easier. Their likability
is a side effect of their design, and the resulting narcissistic
appeal is not their base default setting. So, the assertion by the
author that technology takes on narcissistic tendencies is not

7. entirely true.
(Put your name at the top)
Sample Annotated Bibliography Page
Put your argument in one sentence here.
Consalvo, M. (2004). Borg babes, drones, and the collective:
Reading gender and the body in
Star Trek. Women’s Studies in Communication, 27(2), 177-203.
Retrieved from
Academic Search Premier database.
While Trek mythos writers tried to downplay stereotypes,
Consalvo examines how well they
succeeded by looking at female representation in the cyborg
world. Individualism versus the
hive, sexuality versus androgyny, and Seven of Nine versus the
Queen are topics that Consalvo
examines for implications for our medical technology and
societal impact.
(You must also include the following: 1) a sentence about the
author’s credibility; 2) at least one

8. quotation from the source, as indicated in the directions.)
Evangelista, B. (2004, March 15). Trek tech: 40 years since the
Enterprise's inception, some of
its science fiction gadgets are part of everyday life. San
Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved
July 10, 2007 from http://sfgate.com/cgi-
bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/15/BUGO35EG1T83.DTL
Early Trek had an incredible impact on future engineers,
scientists and technologists, inspiring
them to create the devices we now take for granted such as MP3
players, flat screen plasma
monitors, communication devices and accessible computer
technology in all aspects of our daily
lives. Since the first Enterprise took flight, the leap in
technological advancement outpaces any
other 40-year period in history.
(You must also include the following: 1) a sentence about the
author’s credibility; 2) at least one
quotation from the source, as indicated in the directions.)
Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986).

9. Nonfamily living and the erosion of
traditional family orientations among young adults. American
Sociological Review, 51(4),
541-554.
The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown
University, use data from the
National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young
Men to test their hypothesis that
nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values,
plans, and expectations, moving
them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find
their hypothesis strongly
supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in
studies of young males. Increasing
the time away from parents before marrying increased
individualism, self-sufficiency, and
changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study
by Williams cited below shows
no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes because of
nonfamily living.
(You must also include the following: 1) a sentence about the
author’s credibility; 2) at least one
quotation from the source, as indicated in the directions.)

10. Note: List is alphabetized and double-spaced with an extra
space after the citation. Citation has
hanging indent. Annotation is block format.
Please read through this entire document before beginning this
assignment. Also
review the example paper and the rubric.
Estimated completed time: Four hours
This assignment continues what you did in Part 1. You will be
referring back to the
article you chose and finding sources to support your position.
Purpose: This assignment is designed to help you evaluate
source material. By
evaluating each source for its message, its usefulness, and
author credibility, you will
practice critical analysis skills and gain a clearer sense of how
sources relate to your
writing.
What is an annotated bibliography?
Annotated bibliographies are sources that have been evaluated

11. for their content,
relevance, and credibility. They contain a formatted citation
with information about the
source and a summary (annotation) with information about the
author’s credibility.
They also contain a summary of the source’s content and the
source’s relevance to the
paper in which the source will be used.
Steps to follow
You will be finding sources to support the argument you began
developing in the
Argument Analysis assignment—your counterargument to the
one presented in the
article. Do not use the original argument as one of your sources
for this
assignment. You want to find sources that support your side.
Make sure you have watched the video called
“videoinstructions_annotatedbib,”
because it provides information essential to this assignment.
Step 1
Choose at least three sources that support your side of the
argument. At least one
source must be from EBSCOhost. Besides an article, you can
search the library ebook
databases for a book. One source can be a web page, YouTube
video, or other Internet
source. The topic for these sources must relate to your argument
essay. Every source
must have an author and a date.
Do not use religious texts as sources for any part of this three-
part assignment.

12. F u l l S a i l U n i v e r s i t y
E N C 1 1 0 2 : E n g l i s h C o m p o s i t i o n I I
A s s i g n m e n t : A n n o t a t e d B i b l i o g r a p h y
Step 2
As shown in the sample argument paper (please follow that
model), put your argument
at the top of the page, after the title of the paper.
Step 3
Cite each source using APA formatting. For information about
this, refer to the APA
formatting discussion board, the handouts, and the ebook for
this course. You may
also go to the websites listed at the top of the discussion board
for more information,
or ask your instructor for help.
Put the citation at the top of each annotation.
Sample Journal Citation in APA format:
Gilbert, P. (1991). From voice to text: Reconsidering writing
and reading in the English
classroom. English Education, 23(4), 195-211.
Make sure to use proper capitalization and punctuation in your
citation. Also indent
the second line by using a hanging indent. (In Word, go to
ging.)

13. Put an asterisk (*) next to the source(s) you obtained from
EBSCOhost.
Step 3
Annotate each source. The annotation should come after the
citation and should be in
one paragraph that includes each of the following:
1. Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the
author. What was the
main message they conveyed?
2. State in one or two sentences how this source will be used in
your paper and
why. How will you use the source in your paper? Does it
support your thesis
(main idea)? If so, how?
3. Give at least one quote from the source and include an in-text
citation when you
do. Use this quote in your essay (Part 2). The quotation cannot
be more than
two sentences.
4. Include one or two sentences about the author’s background.
Why is the author
credible? Is the author an expert about the subject? How
knowledgeable about
the subject is the author? How do you know?
Things to remember
Your name at the top of the page
The heading at the top should be: Annotated Bibliography
In keeping with APA formatting, margins should be one inch
and font should be

14. Times New Roman
Text should be double-spaced
State your argument at the top of the page
Alphabetize all sources by entry
Citations must be APA formatted