Demonstrate A Detailed Awareness Of The Position Of The Author

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For the paper, you will be in charge of crafting a personal argument. Essentially, task for this paper is to make a claim about the essay of Frederick Douglass “Learning to read and write.” and argue for it from a personal perspective. A successful paper will demonstrate a detailed awareness of the position of the author(s) in question and provide a reasoned understanding of why your own argument improves, refutes, expands, or challenges the author(s) you focus on.
For this paper we get to synthesize two major ideas—different ways of responding to a text and different models of rhetorical practices (Classical and Rogerian). How you choose to apply these techniques will be up to your discretion, but your effectiveness at utilizing them (as well as demonstrating an awareness of the effect of those choices) will produce a better paper. The position you choose to take is yours, but I would advise you to consider a position that you actually believe in, rather than making one up for the sake of making the assignment any easier—things that interest you will always produce your best writing.
Any of our major topics are fair game—cultural pride, immigration, assimilation, language, power and knowledge, race and racism, family histories—and I am more interested in what you do with this material than I am which material you choose to craft an argument about. Quoting passages in the text(s) you choose will be essential, so be sure to do so correctly and to focus on concise and useful quotes rather than long and purposeless ones. (As always, it is your writing that I am here to evaluate.) As well, make sure to follow MLA formatting rules—a failure to get every minute detail right will not hurt your grade, but a persistent lack of awareness in proper formatting conventions will. In 900-1200 words, craft an essay that develops an argument from your own perspective on any of our major course themes.
The essay that I’ll be using is from Frederick Douglass “Learning to read and write.”