Topic: Persuasive Argument  Evaluate “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, “No Witchcraft for Sale” by Doris Lessing, “Once upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, and “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe for clarity, consistency and persuasiveness.

First evaluate each piece separately and answer the following questions:
-How clear is the authors argument? Try to identify a statement (direct quote) or an excerpt that you paraphrase that summarizes the author’s argument.
-Are the arguments within the individual texts consistent?
-How persuasive is each argument? What contributes to or detracts from the persuasiveness of the argument?
List words and phrases the contribute to or diminish the clarity of each argument. Then examine the text as a whole. Is there a common theme or sentiment about colonialism? Do you agree or disagree with these sentiments?
This essay will summarize your findings about the texts individually and assert your position about them and their overall statements about colonialism collectively. This essay should have a thesis statement that is specific and makes an assertion about the text collectively.

This essay should be about the issue and your stance on it, not the essays themselves. You are writing an academic paper on the issue to further your knowledge and the reader’s knowledge. You must assert your perspective and the reasons for your stance. Choose your topic and write your introduction with the problem and your solution in your thesis. Put the thesis in bold. Develop the points you make in this essay with examples from the essays you are using as your sources.Cite them with in-text citations and an end citation.

Above Are the instructions

You can pick either three of the essays in the instruction to write about it doesn’t matter to me. I was able to find all the stories online by just doing a simple google search.

the page number will be different so just put a question make for the page number when you do in text citation ill fix that once I get the paper back