Literary Analysis

Genre/
Medium: Literary Analysis/Typed
Purpose: For this assignment you will write a five-paragraph literary analysis essay based on the text, From PHD to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life, as it relates to one of the prompts listed below.
Format: Your five-paragraph essay must contain a concrete closed thesis statement and follow MLA
Guidelines. Use one other outside source to support your analysis.
Audience: This essay will target a scholarly audience. Therefore, your language and style should meet the intellectual needs of individuals who read on a collegiate level. Write to pique the interest of your audience by considering what your readers already know and what they need to know.
(C) In Dr. Elaine Richardson’s book, From PHD to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life, Richardson explores the issues that first generation college students experience. Write an essay that analyzes how the author uses these experiences to show that a nationwide overhaul of post secondary education is necessary to improve academic outcomes for first generation college students.