In a 3-5 page essay following MLA 8th style and formatting addressed to an academic audience and drawing evidence from at least 5 scholarly sources, write an analytical essay with informative moments that seeks to understand the cause or effects of an event, trend, or phenomenon worthy of academic exploration.
Be sure to include a thesis statement demonstrates your goal of offering a critical interpretation of primary and secondary sources that ultimately support your analysis of the topic. Remember: whereas the purpose of an argumentative essay is to persuade the purpose of an analytical essay is to present an interpretation.
Write in such a way that the essay follows the analytical mode throughout, includes compelling moments of informing, draws logical support from scholarly sources, proposes a focused interpretation supported by evidence from scholarly sources, and includes a properly