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Major Essay #1 is an evaluation of a published argument. Evaluation is the highest level of cognitive thinking in Bloom’s Taxonomy and thus a very important skill to understand and use efficiently. This means that you will be evaluating whether or not the author’s writing style/writing choices / argument techniques are effective. The assignment in a nutshell: Write a rhetorical analysis of one of the articles below. Do you think he/she argues effectively? Do not respond to the topic itself. Whether you agree or disagree with the author on the topic does not matter.)