Learning Across Disciplines
Writing Assignment
Discuss the three reading selections on the use of camouflage in a multi-paragraph analysis
essay, choosing three of the following six elements to incorporate in your analysis:
writers purpose
writing tone and style
readers goal
discipline-specific language
discipline-specific features
organization
For this writing assignment, your response should be convincing, thoughtful, and detailed,
showing various points that support your beliefs on the impact of discipline-specific features on
these three readings. Logical evidence that backs up your opinion should be used throughout.
The analysis essay should clearly explain how you think at least three of the following features
impact each of the readings from this unit: writers purpose, writing tone and style, readers goal,
discipline-specific language, discipline-specific features, and organization. The first paragraph
will offer an interesting introduction of the topic and present your particular view of it. The next
three or four paragraphs need to include main points that develop your claim, evidence to
support them, analysis explaining how the evidence supports the main point, and transitions
(links) connecting one paragraph to the next. Your final paragraph should consist of concluding
remarks that effectively offer some memorable thoughts on your topic that push readers
understanding and challenge them to look at this topic in a new way.
